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美国的文化教育一向很看重学生的综合素质。四年大学生涯,大学生的身份不仅仅是学生,他们把大学视作从学生到成人的转型期。他们的活动已不仅仅限于青葱校园内,他们通过互联网出售创意、从大一开始积累各种经验:自我心态的调整、处事能力的提升到与人相处的技巧。在生活中,既要当好演员,也要当好观众;在大学中,既要当好学生,也要当好初涉社会的预备人才。
Get out of the library. You can have a degree and a huge GPA and not be ready for the workplace. A student should plan that college is four years of experience rather than 120 credits.
第一,走出图书馆。就算有了学位和很高的GPA, 你也不见得就为工作做好了准备。作为一名学生,应该把大学生涯看作是四年人生经验而非只是一堆学分来好好计划。
Start a business in your 1)dorm room. It’s cheap, Google and Yahoo are dying to buy your website, and it’s better than washing dishes in the 2)cafeteria.
第二,从宿舍开始做生意。这很便宜,谷歌、雅虎都会争先恐后地收购你的网站,这比在大学食堂里洗盘子好多了。
Get involved on campus. When it comes to career success, emotional 3)intelligence—social skills to read and lead others—gets you farther than knowledge or job 4)competence.
第三,积极参加校园活动。论及事业成功,情商——具有读懂并领导别人的社交技能——比起知识或工作能力,对你更有帮助。
Play a sport. People who play sports earn more money than 5)couch potatoes, and women 6)executives who played sports 7)attribute much of their career success to their athletic experience. You don’t need to be great at sports, you just need to be part of a team.
第四,参加体育运动。玩运动的人要比整天看电视的人收入高。参加过体育运动的女性行政人员事业成功的原因很大程度上要归功于其运动经历。你无需在运动上表现出色,而只需参与其中。
Separate your expectations from those of your parents. Otherwise you wake up and realize you’re not living your own life.
第五,别遵循父母的期待生活。否则你醒来后会发现你过的不是属于自己的生活。
Try new things that you’re not good at. Ditch the superstar mentality that if you don’t reach the top, become president, get an A+, or get promoted to editor-in-chief, then the efforts were worthless. It’s important to learn to enjoy things without getting 8)recognition.
第六,尝试一些你并不擅长的新事物。抛弃那些名缰利锁:觉得如果不能成为第一名,当不了学生会主席,拿不了A+的优异成绩,或晋升到总编的位置,那么一切努力都是无意义的。重要的是学着去享受那些无需他人赞赏肯定的事情。
Define success for yourself. Society defines success very narrowly. Rather than defining success as financial gain or 9)accolades, define it in terms of individual interests and personal happiness.
第七,自己定义成功。社会对成功的定义很狭隘。与其把成功定义为经济上的收获或嘉奖,不如将其定义为个人兴趣和快乐所在。
Make your job search a priority. Jobs do not fall in your lap, you have to chase them. Especially a good one. It’s a job to look for a job. Use 10)spreadsheets to track your progress. And plan early.
第八,要优先考虑求职此事。工作要自己去找,特别是好工作,不要等着天上掉馅饼。把找工作看成是一项工作。使用电子表格来记录你的进度,并早日作计划。
Take a course in happiness. Happiness study is revolutionizing how we think of psychology, economics, and sociology. Preview: Learn to be more optimistic.
第九,修读关于“幸福”的课程。关于“幸福”的研究就是要革新我们对心理学、经济学和社会学的认知。首先要学会更积极地看待问题。
Take an acting course. The best actors are actually being their most 11)authentic selves. You need to learn to communicate authentically so that people will listen and feel connected.
第十,修读表演课。实际上最好的演员只是在演绎最真实的自己。你要学习真诚地与别人沟通,让他人愿意聆听并产生共鸣。
Learn to give a 12)compliment. The best compliments are specific. Practice on your professors. If you give a good compliment the recipient will think you’re smarter: a big payoff in college, but a bigger payoff in the work world.
第十一,学会赞美别人。最好的赞美该是言之有物的。可以把你的教授当作练习对象。如果你赞美别人得当,对方会觉得你较为聪敏:在校园内能有丰厚的回报,在工作中更显其效。
Use the career center. These people are experts at positioning you in the workforce and their only job is to get you a job. How can you not love this place? If you find yourself thinking the people at your college’s career center are idiots, it’s probably a sign that you really, really don’t know what you’re doing.
第十二,好好利用求职中心。这些专业人员会帮你在劳动市场中找准定位,他们的唯一工作就是帮你就业。你怎能不爱上这个地方?如果你觉得在大学求职中心里面的人是傻子,那很可能是因为你根本不知道自己在干什么。
Develop a strong sense of self by 13)dissing colleges that reject you. Happy people have a more durable sense of self and aren’t as 14)buffeted by outside events. When bad things happen, don’t take it personally. This is how the most successful business people bounce back quickly from setbacks.
第十三,增强自我意识,敢于鄙视那些没有录取你的大学。快乐的人拥有更持久的自我意识,不容易被外界的事情击倒。当不幸的事发生,不要往心里面去。大多数商业成功人士就是这样从挫折中迅速重拾自信的。
Get rid of your perfectionist 15)streak. It is rewarded in college, but it leads to insane job stress and an inability to feel satisfied with your work.
第十四,戒掉完美主义的脾性。在大学,力求完美会使你有所回报,但在工作中则会产生令人抓狂的工作压力,并使你无法对你的工作产生满足感。
Work your way through college. Getting involved in student organizations counts, and so does feeding children in 16)Sierra Leone or sweeping floors in the chemistry building. Each experience you have can grow into something bigger. A great bullet on the resume for a junior in college.
第十五,大学期间要积累工作经验。投身到学生组织中行得通,到塞拉利昂救助饥荒中的儿童或在化学楼里清洁地板也行。你所经历的每一种体验都有聚沙成塔的作用。对于一个大学新生来说,这些举动在你的履历上是光彩的一笔。
Make to-do lists. You can’t achieve dreams if you don’t have a plan to get there.
第十六,列出行动清单。没有计划你是不可能实现自己的梦想的。
* 本文节选自《波士顿环球报》(Boston Globe) 翻译:立及夕
1)dorm [dC:m] n. [俗]宿舍(=dormitory)
2)cafeteria [5kAfI5tIErIE] n. [美]自助食堂/餐馆。这里指大学食堂。
3)intelligence [In5telIdVEns] n. 智力；理解力
4)competence [5kɒmpEtEns] n. 能力
5)couch potato 懒散、整天看电视的人
6)executive [I^5zekjJtIv] n. 执行者，主管人员
7)attribute [E5trIbju:t] v. 归结于，常和to搭配
8)recognition [7rekE^5nIFEn] n. 认可；褒奖
9)accolade [5AkEleId] n. 赞美；奖励
10)spreadsheet [5spred7Fi:t] n. 表格
11)authentic [C:5WentIk] a. 真实的
12)compliment [5kɒmplImEnt] n. 称赞
13)diss [dIs] v. [俚]轻蔑
14)buffet [5bQfIt] v. 打击
15)treak [stri:k] n. (性格上不太显著的)特色，性情；条纹
16)Sierra Leone [sI9erE lI5EJn] n. 塞拉利昂，非洲西部一国家，位于大西洋沿岸。世界最不发达国家和重债穷国之一。
留学加油站
GPA 平均成绩点数
美国的大学和中学在评定学生成绩时，大多采取GPA体制，即Grade Point Average的缩写。在申请学校时，GPA十分重要，很多大学有最低GPA规定。GPA的计算方式就是求成绩点数与学分的加权平均值。在中国，学业成绩的计算采用的是百分制，在计算GPA时须先将百分制分数换成成绩点数（如，100-85分为4，84-70 分为3等等）。但GPA的算法因学校而异，具体算法，一定要咨询所申请的学校。
简便公式： GPA=Σ(每课的成绩点数*每门课的学分)/ 总学分
credit 学分
每个学科的学分根据该学科难度而异，一个学科通常为3个学分。本科阶段，大部分美国大学要求总共修得120个学分。