the diversity of my university life
Look! There is a rainbow! On the first day of my university life, when I walked into the campus, there was a rainbow bridging over the fountain, I hadn’t seen rainbow for a long time. I was so excited, and leaped high with joy. My ponytail danced with my happiness. It was a propitious sign indicated that my life in university would be colorful, and actually it is!
After my entry into university, I found my life so busy. What I should do is not only gaining the scholarship but also being a good monitor and leader of shanghai university percussion band. I got the 1st and 2nd price of scholarship in my 2 years of study. I organized charity donations for schoolmates with financial difficulty or disease. Every week, I give drum lesson to new members of our percussion band. And there are always a lot of non-business performances, such as entertaining guests, celebrating party, cultural exchange with foreign students delegations and their bands. Of course, part-time job is indispensable in my vacations. I ask for no payment but aim at getting accustomed to the society.
Sometimes, my friends advise me not to tire myself out with such a tight schedule. I wake up before the rooster crow, and continue working till very late when others are enjoying their sweet dreams. Every time I come back from the rehearsal of percussion band, I have to finish my homework with the help of my own charged light because of the blackout in out dormitory. Maybe such kind of life is something like an ascetic, but we should work hard and try hard in our youth, aren’t we?
When I represented shanghai university to take part in the POND’s new century lady competition held in May, when I show off on the stage, when I emerged as “the girl of vitality”, I made use of every bit of time to compensate the classes I had missed, I made use of every chance to learn from other girls with vitality, versatility and intelligence, I made use of this opportunity to present our university students’ state of mind.
There is a little bitterness in my busy life, but at the same time, there is sweetness. It is colorful. I make fun out of it. I love it. When I snatch a little leisure I lie on the green grass, reading books, I cripple myself in the window-seat in our library---the 2nd largest in shanghai---I absorb knowledge like a hungry sponge, I wonder along the bank of river, listening to oriels in willows and get a splendid sunset view of the campus. The sky is drunk with the sunset; I am drunk with the sweetness of my like.
Besides study, music is the most important part of my life. I began to learn piano at 6 and drum at 11. In school, I teach students to play jazz drums, kettledrums, xylophone and so on. We give performances in many universities to popularize percussion and to bring music to them. I’ve learned drums for so many years and it can’t be separated from my life now. It is my beating heart, my pulse, veins and arteries. When I play it, I wanna move my body, I can sit on my chair anymore I can’t help swinging I communicate with the audience I call upon them to join me with the beat of drums the rhythm of music and the fragmence of youth. Hi, come on!
In one summer vacation, I volunteered to teach my neighborhood community and taxi drivers to learn 100 English sentences for APEC. I made great efforts to walk out of my air-conditioned room and walk into the hot and suffocating weather. Some of these people didn’t have the opportunity to get good education, and even didn’t know ABC! I tried hard to find and easy way to teach them. For example, how to remember “the Oriental TV tower”? I put “tower” as “套鞋” in shanghai dialect. It is not the right way to teach and learn English like this, but actually it is the only way. In the end of my vacation, they could use some daily language. I was so glad and thought my efforts rewarding. Being a volunteer, I mould myself serve the people and welcome the coming APEC. Being a university student living in ivory tower, I feel the hardness of taxi driver. It was at that time that I cherished most my opportunity to study in shanghai university which enjoys the first rate facilities in china. I will work hard and contribute myself to our country in the future.
And another summer vacation, I worked as a junior clerk in an import and export company. I didn’t know how to draw up invoice; how to make customs declaration forms; how to fill the packing list or I even didn’t know what is CIF! I strongly feel my lack of working and social experience; these are knowledge that can’t be learned from textbooks. How to teach oneself, how to make a circle of acquaintances and get along with people of various characters---I think these are the preparation of entry into society and are more important than my scores in examinations. Working in the company, I threw away my t-shirts jeans track shoes and changed into suits dresses and high-hell shoes. It was far from comfortable and occasionally I stumbled over my steps. Oh! How difficult it is to be a white-collar office lady! One should pretend to be a noble lady, working all day before the table, wearing the dangerous high-heel shoes! Isn’t it a challenge?
My life in university is like allegro. It is painstaking but worthwhile; bitter but sweet; tiring but exciting. The rainbow appeared in my first day of university life promised me a colorful life. Over the rainbow, there is the sky high above. The way ahead is long, I see no ending, yet high or low, I will search my will unbending!
托起明天的太阳 ——我心目中的大学与青春 当鸟儿的啼唱唤醒清晨的霞光,当和煦的春风吹得蓓蕾绽放,当清澈的露珠滴在嫩绿的荷叶上……因为有了太阳,一切的一切就这么美丽而令人神往。站在波光如璧的龙腾湖边,抬头仰望两条金光璀璨的苍龙——正向着遥远广阔的世界,昂首奔腾。我知道,这是所有昌大学子拳拳的梦想。朝阳初升,美丽的前湖之畔,伴随的是晨风朗读的背影和朗朗的读书声。因为我们知道,四年的美好时光将在这里驻足,将在这里倾注青春的热血,勾勒人生亮丽而不朽的苍穹。只要不辜负自己的每一天24小时,这片土地将播种和孕育着美好的希望。 我心目中的大学与青春,就像春天里早晨的太阳,有着无尽的力量和希望。正如毛泽东主席对中国青年饱含深情的寄语:“世界是你们的,也是我们的,但是归根结底是你们的。你们青年人朝气蓬勃,正在兴旺时期,好像早晨八九点钟的太阳。希望寄托在你们身上”。缤纷多彩的世界属于我们青年, 而苍翠葱郁、生机勃勃的大学校园正是我们梦开始的地方。当代大学生作为青年中的骄子,是中国的未来,是祖国的希望。时代的召唤让我们了选择光荣的理想,命运的期盼激励着我们奋发自强。我心目中的大学与青春,是那“一钩足以明天下,何况青辉满十分”的磊磊男儿顶天立地的自信,胸怀“怅寥阔,问苍茫大地,谁主沉浮”的搏击人生的伟岸与豪情!或许,我们每个人都很渺小,仿佛浩瀚沧海中小小的浪花一朵,但是浪花也有浪花的美丽,浪花也有浪花的选择,我们选择的是向命运发起挑战,是决不允许平庸的非凡的青春,是在每一个巅峰时刻铭刻下我们的一段记忆,谱写出自己的一场精彩!或许,我们每个人都很伟大,因为我们与时代同呼吸,与祖国共命运。我们置身于一个古老智慧的民族,我们肩负着一个辉煌璀璨的时代。我们准备,以自己全部的激情和热血,完成时代赋予我们光荣的使命;我们期待,将自己的人生,奉献给中华民族神圣的复兴伟业。鹰击长空,峥嵘岁月,我们以青春照亮时代;挥洒汗水,击楫中流,我们用希望点燃未来。徜徉于蓊郁青翠的美丽的前湖校园,我无时无刻不在切身感受着她“格物致新,厚德泽人”的温融浸润,每分每秒都在默默咀嚼着她春华秋露的岁月轮回,月月年年地细细品味着她“物华天宝,人杰地灵”的云霞氤氲。我为自己是一名昌大学子的身份而骄傲,我也清楚作为一名优秀大学生的责任与要求。一页页笔记记载了我执著的梦想,一支支铁犁耕种着我非凡的青春。我用自己点点滴滴的行动,努力践行着自己的理想,实现着一次又一次对自我的超越。每当晓月将残,晨光熹微,站在窗前深深地呼吸,我的思绪就会伴随着清晨清新的空气,在静默中顺着和煦的清风,逐渐地弥散开来,漫塞于天地之间……我心目中的大学与青春,是朝阳初升时伴着晨风朗读的背影;我心目中的大学与青春,是沉沉夜空下从图书馆和自习室归来的畅然而坚实的脚步;我心目中的大学与青春,是课堂上积极思考的头脑,踊跃发言的激情……我心目中的大学与青春,是一种关乎生命的力量,是那一江春水,抒写了热情和奔放,在激情中意气风发;我心目中的大学与青春,是一曲有关生命的颂歌,是一泻瀑布,宣誓了坚贞和不屈,在挫折中不懈追求,勇敢地在人生漫漫长路上奔跑,无悔地在世间渺渺征途中探寻……我心目中的大学与青春,是一种坦荡豪迈的心态,面对人生弯弯曲曲水,世事重重叠叠山,拥有奔跑与超越的热情,亦有拾掇失意后的坦然,挫折后的不屈,困苦艰难后的从容…… 我心目中的大学与青春,是英国哲人伯特兰.罗素登上奔宁山巅,在呼啸的漫漫西风中对生命如诗的赞扬,对青春如歌的吟唱:青春时期,风华正茂、年富力强;青春是早晨的太阳,蓬蓬勃勃,火红灿烂,绚丽多彩;青春是人生的黄金时代,充满活力,富于探索,勇于追求,敢于创造;青春的魅力,应当使枯枝长出新叶,沙漠变成绿洲。这就是,青春的美,青春的快乐,青春的本分!我心目中的大学与青春,是一种奋发向上的力量,在求知的征程上,潜心向学,孜孜不倦;我心目中的大学与青春,是一种凝炼厚重的理想,在成长的旅途中,风雨兼程,奋发有为;我心目中的大学与青春,是一种卓越超凡的品质:谦虚勤奋,好学笃实,胸怀远大的抱负和理想,充分珍惜美好的学习时光,奋马扬鞭,走过四年风风雨雨……终有朝一日,成为托起我们民族未来的脊梁!千里之行,始于足下。为了实现自己的理想和追求,我们要丢掉烦恼和忧伤,丢掉埋怨和叹息,悲观与失望,勇敢地走出狭隘的个人主义小天地,金钱的方孔,感情的旋涡……挽起理想的手臂,张开知识的翅膀,昂首挺胸,无悔前行。因为,我们每个人都是一束纤维,织起来便是一叶巨大的风帆,推动着祖国的航船——乘风破浪;因为,我们每个人都是一束阳光,合起来就是一轮太阳,照耀着民族的复兴伟业——无比绚烂,更加辉煌! 阿基米德曾说过: 给我一个支点,我将撬起整个地球。我心目中的大学与青春, 就应该是这个支点,撬起这个充满希望的世界——强盛繁荣的中国!星星火炬,代代相传。我们没有理由光阴虚度,岁月蹉跎,乘风华正茂,奋发图强,用科学知识来充实头脑,用永驻的信心和勇气来浇灌心灵,用实践和经验来灵活双手。用您的手,我的手,一起点燃——未来的希望;用您的心,我的心,共同托起——明天的太阳!