How is your college life?

I am a 20 14 undergraduate. I was confused before I went to college. I don't know what college life is like, so I know nothing after I go to college. Unfortunately, I missed many opportunities. So I hope this answer will help students who are about to go to college. Take Xiamen University as an example. It may be different from some schools, but they are all the same.

I want to talk about college life from two aspects: 1. University daily life and curriculum II. How should college life be spent?

1. University daily life and courses

First of all, correct two viewpoints.

(1) The junior high school teacher once told us that after these years, the university will live like a fairy. This may be true for some people who want to muddle along in university, but it is absolutely wrong for a person who wants to work in the corresponding field of university study.

(2) Some people say that you can often go out to play when you are in college. This view should be said to be more than that of high school, but not much. Generally, we can only go out on weekends or holidays, or occasionally go out in class one day, and sometimes go to restaurants outside the school with our classmates. I spend most of my time in the dormitory. Generally speaking, what time is the front line, dormitory, departmental activities meeting or volunteers, library, restaurant. These basically occupy Monday to Friday and most weekends (because departmental activities usually ensure that everyone has time on weekends).

The university curriculum is like this:

The picture comes from the internet.

Section 12? 8:00-9:40

34 knots? 10: 10- 1 1:50

56 knots? 2:30-4: 10

78 knots? 4:40-6:20

Section 9 10 1 1 Section 7: 10-9:45

College classes are different from high school classes. For example, there are 120 students in your college. Each class will be divided into 60 students when entering the school, not one class. For example, the school will arrange two teachers to take this course, with 60 students in each class. It is this 120 people who choose which teacher they want to teach. They choose different teachers, and the time and place of class may be different. The initial classes of the school are all freshmen, with simple management and convenient notification. Generally, any notice is notified by the qq group of this class.

When you are in class, you just look at your schedule. Go to the teaching building when you have classes (there are several buildings in the school dedicated to classes). When not in class, they usually stay in the dormitory or some students go to the library or the classroom where no one is in the teaching building. Staying in the dormitory may play games, watch videos, study and chat.

Look at the timetable above. If you calculate the time, you will find that there is not much time left in your working day. However, the schedules of different majors are different, and some professional courses are rarely relaxed. But if you choose a major like medicine or architecture, you will have more classes. Some also take double degrees, that is, they have classes on weekends. You have to finish your homework, so you don't have much free time. (In the above schedule, there are classes in front and no classes at the back every day. In fact, this is not necessarily the case. Maybe 12 has classes, 34 has no classes, and 56 has classes and dances like this. )

Every class in the university is a new class, and almost every class has a class. Only in the middle of the semester or at the end of the semester, some classes will have exercises, some classes will have midterm exams, and some will not. The final exam is taken at most once a day. If there are many classes, there may be exams every day for a week, so that time is called exam week. Because of the rapid progress of lectures, it is difficult to learn as much as in high school, so the examination questions will not be so deep. Generally, you can cope with the exam by understanding the exercises at the back of the book. The exam week lasts at most 2 hours a day, so there is still plenty of review time. You can ask your seniors and sisters for the papers of previous years' exams, and just do a few sets, which is more likely to meet the original questions. Unless the teacher recommends it, there is generally no need to find another problem to do, and there is not much time.

At the beginning of the university, the school may be told trivial things such as patchwork and attending classes, and gradually buy all the necessities of life, as well as broadband and familiarity with the campus. In addition to matters needing attention and other life issues, the seminar may also talk about some study abroad plans, so you should decide in advance whether to go abroad and choose whether to sign up for some projects.

Some dormitories are more United and do everything together, while others have their own circles.

At the beginning of the club, some student union departments were recruiting, various teams were recruiting new people, and there were some crowdfunding activities. Participate selectively, depending on your own interests. Might as well sign up for a few. In the future, some activities may be held to avoid the monotony of college life. Generally, there will be a large number of recruits at this time, and there will be fewer opportunities to enter later.

Basically, homework should be left in every course, usually exercises after the book, which should be handed in regularly. The teacher's teaching assistant will grade abcd, which will be included in the total score in proportion, but as long as you hand it in, the answer to not many questions is A, even if you copy the answers completely, it will be A. Although the teaching assistant has read every question, it will not care about you. (You should buy your own answers to some exercises at the back of the book, and some seniors and sisters will send you an electronic version. )

At the beginning of the semester, there is an English grading exam. According to this score, our school divides students into 1234 grade, 1 grade has four semesters of English classes, grade 2 has three grades, and so on, except for classes that fail. Try to get good grades in the exam. Although most college English teachers speak English, the words they use are relatively simple, and there is no problem of not understanding them. If there are more classes, it will be much worse to have one more class each semester. If the teacher is strict, it is equivalent to an extra professional class. And if your English is not very good and your grades are not high, it will also lower your overall GPA. The more semesters you take, the more you play.

After 60 points, you will fail this course and have to retake it in other semesters. In fact, it is not easy to fail in college, because teachers will try their best to keep you from failing, and give you all the points they can. Because the failure rate of teachers' classes has an impact on themselves, this space is very large, so only the scores of failing in college are extremely low, so there is no way.

Some teachers will call the roll in class, and some teachers never call the roll, but just hang up classes for n times (different schools may be different, we are three times). If they don't go, they will deduct the final grade. When choosing a course, you can ask the senior teacher who teaches well, and which teacher doesn't call the roll.

Compulsory courses must be taken, giving you a bunch of elective courses. You can choose the courses you are interested in and complete a certain amount in four years.

Personally, I think college textbooks are much better than high school textbooks. Basically, what teachers say is from books, and some teachers just recite from the book, so it is completely feasible to learn by reading, that is, when you can fully understand books. If not, it is better to listen to the teacher's class and whether you can do the exercises at the end of the book.

University teachers will not disappear after class, as some people say. If you ask him before he goes out, he will be happy to answer your questions. You can also ask him for ten minutes in the middle of the big class. Really can't. He will leave an email address, and you can trust him privately.

Before I went to college, I heard that there were no fixed seats in college classes and I needed to grab seats. At that time, I was worried that there would be no seats when I arrived later than others. But it wasn't until I went to college that I knew there was no need to worry, because the number of students who chose this teacher would be set to a smaller value than the classroom space, so at most I just sat in the back row and looked at the blackboard, but there was no problem in class.

Some people say that there are many university canteens, reaching twenty or thirty. This may be true. There are more than a dozen restaurants in both campuses of Xiamen University. But you should know that so many canteens mean a large school area, and the scope of your regular activities is a small area. Generally, several colleges will be concentrated in one area, so there are only two or three canteens near you. You only go to the one you often go to, the one you pass by or the one you like to eat best. The dishes in our canteen are not exactly the same, and some are completely different. Personally, I am satisfied with the food in the canteen. And the food in the canteen is much cheaper than outside.

2. How should college life be spent? Universities are here to learn knowledge and improve their comprehensive ability.

1) Read more? When I first arrived in the dormitory, I saw several books related to my major on my roommate's bookshelf, and I suddenly felt great pressure when I thought that my holiday wave had passed. In fact, reading those books in advance has little effect on freshmen, so there is no need to feel pressured. Academic performance should have little to do with the books you read after class, but reading more books in this major will definitely help you in the future.

Not only should you read more professional books, but you should also read books that are of interest to other aspects. It's just that I seldom read books before I went to college, so when I went to college, I felt that I didn't know anything, had a low view of things and had a low expression ability. If you don't have the habit of reading, I suggest you go to the library to find your favorite part. You will find that your desire to read soars in an instant, and you will feel that you want to read them all. Unfortunately, there is not enough time for you to take the first step. At least I did, and I might want to see something I didn't like.

You can learn more about other majors during your college years, and have a certain understanding of all walks of life, which is good for the future. Reading is a systematic study, and knowledge is more deeply rooted. Although I can learn a lot of useful knowledge from watching Zhihu, I only have a little knowledge and soon forget it, especially when I brush aimlessly, but it is still very helpful to find the answer and make a purposeful comparison and summary.

On the basis of reading, you should think about it, and never rush through it in order to complete a quantity. Write more articles and write down your feelings about life, and you will enjoy it when you read it again in the future. When the essence of the book you have read is written, you will have a deeper understanding, because you can only write it if you understand it, and try to write it to others, because people often like to fool themselves and not seek perfection for themselves, but if you show it to others, you will consider the words to make the logic more perfect and prevent others from besieging you. In the process of careful consideration, you will find many unexpected loopholes, thus deepening your understanding of the problem.

2) Join several student unions, societies and departments, just two or three, not too many. Do something actively after adding it, otherwise it is equivalent to not entering. Here, you can learn some skills such as writing a plan and promoting the WeChat platform. If you want to enter the propaganda department, you may have to learn ps or make videos first. Both of them are very popular in the resumes of university investment departments, and some departments will train you after you enter.

How many departments have you joined, what positions do you hold and what skills do you have? At least when you submit your resume at the university, there will be many resumes at the university in the future. In order to increase the probability of being hired, it is best to learn more about this. There are usually two columns on your resume: skills and work experience. You can't leave nothing behind.

Don't be afraid to attend the interview. But you should have the heart that I will go for an interview even if I don't want to go in. I will interview more to prepare for future job interviews, and I can't just avoid it. During that time, some students were busy with this interview and that interview. This is a very thoughtful classmate. Nobody knows you at the interview anyway. Failure here is better than failure in the workplace.

You have to change your term of office next semester, that is, you have the opportunity to become a minister and register for election. In fact, it is easy to be a minister, because there are few candidates, many want to quit, and many dare not. When you become a minister, you will get better exercise.

List the functions of several basic departments (only listed in my mind, seriously incomplete)

(1) External Relations Department-people who deal with people by calling and soliciting sponsorship. Exercise more people and don't be afraid to participate. After taking the first step, you will find that it is actually very simple, and many of them are just rhetoric. Remember to ask everyone like this.

(2) Propaganda Department-technical activities, design posters, leaflets, promotion of WeChat, etc. Help some cooperative units to publicize.

(3) Sports center-organizing some school sports competitions, sometimes it takes time to watch them on the spot.

(4) Self-discipline center-health inspection, organizing dormitory-related activities, with few things.

(5) Young Volunteers Association-recruiting volunteers for activities and recording the management time.

Note: we can't evaluate scholarships without certain working hours in our school, so many students spend a lot of time volunteering on weekends. Volunteers are screened when they apply (internal screening, no interview), and some need training before they can take up their posts. It is good to attend more training. Volunteers just participate in some activities and help, such as sorting out lost things in the lost and found office, sorting out parked bicycles, and setting up tents to welcome freshmen when they arrive at school.

Most of the clubs are interest clubs, and there are also some public welfare clubs, which are similar to what departments have to do, but many of them will have working hours and will be doubled by insiders, so don't worry about the working hours of such clubs. If you participate in teaching in the summer, you will work 8 hours a day, compared with 56 hours in the past week, which others can't earn in a semester.

In fact, there are very few things in departments and societies. You can take part in one or two major activities in a semester, and you don't have to take part in minor activities. It will only take up a little time and will not affect your study at all. Even if we get together, we can exercise our ability to resist pressure. In fact, you can accomplish many tasks after all, and there may be a lot of work pressure at the beginning of your work. It doesn't hurt to get used to it now.

3) Practice blind typing. This is a skill that looks tall, but it is actually very easy to learn. It is guaranteed that it will be practiced in less than a month. Because in the future, I will often type, such as writing papers (there are many papers with thousands of words in the final exam of water course, but proficiency is not required. Just write them out without going off topic. In fact, they are very simple. It should be said that typing quickly can save a lot of time.

The specific method is: first check which keys each finger controls, and then type them in 26 alphabetical order. After many times, try to practice without looking at the keyboard. Then you can download a typing software or type some articles you want. You can play for an hour at noon every day, and you can play blindly in less than a month. When practicing typing, your fingers will form their own muscle memory after watching the keyboard type a lot. When you don't look at the keyboard, you will move yourself. Don't use your brain to control your hand at this time, because it will be slower, let your hand move by itself, and sometimes you will make mistakes. Just delete it. The more you practice, the better. You don't have to be sure to be right. This is my own practice method, and you can also find a more scientific training method.

I would like to raise an idea here, that is, it is very beneficial to lay a good foundation for everything, no matter how deep it is. For example, when you can't type blindly, remember the position of your fingers, and then type according to this standard posture every time. It may be slow to type at first, but every time you type, you unconsciously take a step toward your goal. Even if you don't spend time practicing, you will get faster and faster after a long time, and you will also type blindly in the end. Without regular typing, the speed will always be like that, and no progress will be made. The same is true in other aspects. It takes a small amount of time to master the basic framework of a field, and every contact after that is to contribute to this framework; The knowledge that people who have not established the framework come into contact with hangs there alone and is soon forgotten. I think this is one reason why powerful people are very powerful in many ways.

4) Good grades (especially professional courses, which are very important), especially freshmen, should be maintained in the future, because some talent training programs may be launched next semester, and joining that group will get special training. If you want to be selected, your grades should be among the best, and your grades also involve your major and future research. Don't think that you have passed the college grades, but you still have to fight to the front. Otherwise, when the opportunity comes, it will be too late for you to regret it. I have experienced it personally and have a deep understanding.

5) Learn English well, even if you don't go abroad. Because many good materials are from abroad now, and China is also in line with international standards, English is particularly important. If you really think learning English is too difficult, then you should try to memorize the words well. If you hear that it is really difficult, put it aside and make sure you can understand English articles first. There are many good answers about learning English in Zhihu, which are really good and can be used for reference.

6) Make more friends, including our college, other colleges, seniors, schoolmates. You can meet our students in class at ordinary times, and you can also meet seniors and volunteers in the department. Students from other colleges can meet in clubs or school-level student unions. It is also important to have a good relationship with teachers, such as asking questions after class and discussing with teachers during office hours. Because there may really be opportunities for teachers to help in the future, for example, some activities need to find instructors, and applications for projects need letters of recommendation. If the teacher you are looking for doesn't know you, it will help you a lot, but it is not so convenient to know you.

7) Exercise is also very important. It goes without saying that you must have a good body to cope with the hardships of your future work.

The last word of advice, when you step into the society, you will face all kinds of pressures, and it is difficult for you to settle down and study, so take good care of your college time and get into the state as soon as possible, so as not to regret it later. Think about it, how many people regret not studying hard, and how many people regret not surfing well when they were young. Compare the number of people and you will know which way to choose.

-almost a year, the first update.

Let's talk about bicycles first.

When I first arrived at the university, I may think that the university is relatively large and a bicycle is a necessity, so I bought one first, regardless of the willy-nilly. The answer is that I bought one with my roommate just a few days after I arrived at the university, and later found it unnecessary. It only takes us 10 minutes to walk from the dormitory to the teaching building. It's really not much faster to unlock the lock by bike.

Therefore, if the campus is not very big, or sometimes you need to ride a bicycle to a far place, it is recommended not to buy a bicycle, because it may be left there for a long time without riding. Generally speaking, it is necessary to attend classes or go back to the dormitory with classmates. If most people don't have bicycles, your bicycles should also be promoted.

If you really want to buy it, tell me how to buy it.

I'd rather buy second-hand good than bad! ! !

Answer: I bought 350 yuan's gearbox at first, and soon the gearbox could not be used. Then riding a bike is extremely laborious, really unbearable ... and it often breaks down, such as a flat tire, which costs 50 yuan to repair at a time, but I caught up with a few minor problems and bought another one.

If you want to buy a cheap one, I don't recommend buying a variable speed one. I think so.

In the second year, I bought a 600 model car and put it in the shop for people to try it out. Online sale 1000 or so. The owner is well maintained and comfortable to ride. It's been a year, and there is nothing wrong with it.

If you buy a new car, sometimes a better car with a thousand dollars or more is shiny and easy to be stolen. I have a classmate who is like this. I bought it and it was stolen within a few days. So if it is the kind of car that loves cars very much, if you have to buy such a good car, you should pay attention to parking under the surveillance camera and pulling it back to the dormitory at night.

Let's talk about the feelings of the first year of high school (it may not be suitable for everyone, so skip it if you think it's nonsense)

The answer comes from Xiamen University School of Economics. I didn't know until my sophomore year that I was not tired at all, but I guess I will be more tired in my junior year. By the time of the final exam, basically each subject has only one day to review, and each subject is as thick as the romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is also difficult (because there are too many contents), and it is really stressful. For me, the pressure of every important exam can be comparable to or even worse than the college entrance examination, because these results are not like the mid-term and final period of high school, but will determine your future life direction. So this semester I spent almost all my spare time in the library, that is, besides attending classes, student unions and clubs, I was studying or reading books. Besides the course requirements, I also taught myself some software. Get up at 7 o'clock every morning, go back to the dormitory at 1 1 at night, and don't rest at noon. I don't watch mobile phones very much this semester. The knowledge in Zhihu is too fragmentary, and I am not very good at brushing on the home page, but looking for what I want to know. Just take a shot to prepare my classmates in similar situations and encourage you! My life may be a little extreme, and the average person may not reach this level, so please take it as my confession. I'm not talking about letting everyone do this. I hope to spray less! )

In the second year of high school, everyone began to prepare whether to study abroad or go abroad. Those who want to go abroad are not as interested in academic performance as those who want to study, but they can't fall behind; If you want to go abroad, you may start preparing for IELTS and TOEFL in your freshman year, so as not to miss some undergraduate opportunities to go abroad or exchange opportunities.

Those who want to apply for graduate school will get grades. In the sophomore year, their scores are generally higher than those of the freshman year, and many courses can get full marks (above 90 points), so the competition is more intense and there is no room for negligence, which is also a reason for people to be more nervous. The topic in the test paper is that the phenomenon of original questions in previous years is more serious, so it is very important to do well in the test paper in previous years. At present, large-scale enrollment, if you want to study, you'd better choose a major, rather than being a chicken head than a phoenix tail.

When choosing a major, I may encounter the problem of choosing a theoretical major or an applied major. Before I went to college, I refused to major in theory because I didn't want to do theoretical research. However, after two years in college, I learned from my teacher that it is better to choose a theoretical major. Because the undergraduate theory is well studied, the application can be left to graduate students, but if the undergraduate is partial to application and does not lay a good theoretical foundation, the future choice direction will be narrow.

For example, when the school of economics is divided into majors, the finance major is the hottest and the ranking is the highest. Other professional thresholds are not obvious. At that time, my score can go into finance, but it will definitely be at the bottom. Under the entanglement, I chose statistics as my major. Because the bottom means that you have no scholarship in the future, and there are no places for postgraduate study. Going abroad will also face great difficulties, so I can only choose the hard road of postgraduate entrance examination. So I chose to be a statistical "chicken head", and now I am glad of my choice at that time.

Finance belongs to the applied type, while statistics belongs to the theoretical type. The demand for mathematics in the economic field is very high. When some securities companies recruit people, they should not even have an economic background, but talents with a mathematical or statistical background. Moreover, when choosing the direction of graduate students in the future, the undergraduate major is finance, which is basically the direction of graduate schools, and students majoring in statistics can also study statistics, finance is also very popular, and students majoring in economics are more popular. In fact, there is not much difference between statistics and finance in undergraduate course. Only a few compulsory courses are different, but it is in this part of the course that we learn deeper mathematics, and they learn professional knowledge of financial investment. It's easy for us to make up lessons in the future, but it's important to have a teacher to guide us. Another difference is that the elective course of the department is also in the direction of financial investment, and we are a course of data analysis, so the difference in this science is still quite big.

Schools generally have summer social practice, so you need to form a team in advance, otherwise you may sign up soon to attract powerful people, and some start to form a team one semester in advance. To form a good team, you need to find a tutor if you want to study the subject. You can find one of the teachers who have taken your own class and send him an email to make an appointment. I really can't think of the topic. You can ask the teacher any questions. The teacher's advice is still very good. Then submit the plan. During the summer vacation, eight or nine people will find a time to go to a certain province and city for research, such as local people's livelihood and education. ), issue questionnaires or visit government enterprises.