Challenges and Opportunities for college students
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your patience. Today I would like to begin with my personal experience.
Before getting enrolled in college, I had been bombarded with suggestions.
As for my mom, she simply said, \"Take care. Don't be too hard on yourself.\"
My first semester at college was stimulating in a somewhat anarchic way. I rushed from library to club, from classroom to tennis court, \"enjoying\
His talk inspired me. He proudly told us that the average age of his employees is only 28. What's the secret behind the success of his young team? \"Sagacity,\" he told us, \"In other words, being conscious of what one is doing and what one is able to do.\"
Exactly! As a freshman about to be a sophomore, I realize now that our time and stamina don't allow us to extend ourselves in all directions. So the moral responsibility of college education is to teach students the art of making important choices. No matter how hard the growing pains are, mastering this art is at the heart of every undergraduate's success, whether in school now or in life later on.
So I am learning to make such choices. Joining this competition, for instance,
has been one. I've wanted to fully experience this contest, to make friends, to discover what my age peers believe and to stretch myself in new and unexpected ways. I imagine this is true for most contestants here today.
As for the challenges and opportunities for us, they will be determined by how adequately our education trains us to gain a clear perception of ourselves, and thereby to make sensible choices that follow. College education, as British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said, \"should be energizing as the poet of our dreams and the architect of our purposes.\" Such purpose, self-discipline and vision all hinge on the art of choice-making.
As I look back on the advice received those very first days on campus, I no longer feel perplexed, because I now have my own guideline: Make choices that lead to a clearer vision of who I am, what I can do, and how I may best tap my potential. The horizon is now wide but distinct. And the taste already feels sweet.
Thank you!
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