User:Karen or Cathirine

The true meaning of university life Time flying without leaving visible traces, it is my third year in CUPL and complicated feelings come to my mind all of a sudden. What, I am wondering, should be the true meaning of my university life? It occurs to me that some senior students told me that university life was considered synonymous with extracurricular activities and academic ability, which was paid tremendous attention by us, was not so significant as it is before. Having spent nearly 3 years in CUPL, I think I am qualified to express my personal idea toward this question. University life is mixed with extracurricular activity, friendship, love, and academic research, at least it seems to me, and we should give the preference to the last one. I want to further illustrate my idea as follows. Firstly, what differs the university from senior school is the existence of varible associations, in which leadership and communication skills can be largely prompted. Consequencely, taking part in activities of different associations, making acquaintance with different people and being the backbones of them will give us a jump on competitors, which is confiremed by previous graduates. Generally speaking, extracurricular activity is indispensable to a eligible undergraduate. Secondly, as a basic human being, we need to add some condiments to routine life and friendship will be the perfect choice. Without it, we will be marginalized by the unit, our individualities will be considered eccentric and our life will be a perpetual struggle against loneliness. We may come across barriers and challenges everyday and friends are ones to whom we can turn for help or share our joys and sorrows. Thirdly, let us get down to fundamentals and agree that love is a natural part of human beings. University students, however knowledgeable and independent, will find it necessary to be accompanied by boyfriends or girlfriends. Last semester, a friend told me that the most valuable thing bought by love is maturity after breaking up with her boyfriend, which impressed me greatly and rooted in my deep heart afterward. Please cope with love spontaneously and get rid of utilitarianism. Finally, it’s the academic course’s turn. As a student major in law, I feel extremely lucky to study in CUPL for the simple reason that professors are incredibly outstanding and reservation of law resourdes is unbelivably astronomical. However, why are there so many students in our university addicted to video games, MSN and other spoiling entertainments is just beyond me. Much as some students pride on their family backgrounds, their future can not be guaranteed without professional expertise. Of all the mixtures mentioned before, learning is the most powerful one. It is the learning and only learning that determine who we will be and what we will do for the rest of our lives, which can not be applied to extracurricular activity, friendship or love. In conclusion, university life is a combination of different substances. These different substances will make their turns and we have to learn to go with the flow. Holding a flexible and elastic attitude toward this combination, we can change the percentage specifically from time to time, but we must ensure we’ve gave the preference to one of them and determined to follow the certain path on behalf of receiving fruitful ending in one of them. I think that’s the beauty of university life.