·College Life
Thinking about college life brings to your mind the images of students busy studying in the library, with headphones on in listening centers, conducting scientific experiments in labs, welding in the auto body shop, or sweating it out in countries of ancient civilizations digging up relics in archeology classes. This is true of any university student who pursues an education in any institution of higher learning.
Students usually enter universities at age 18 or 19 as young adults full of vitality. College life is usually a very active lifestyle. Apart from classes, students spend some of their spare time and weekends at the cinema, on the dance floors, on the sports field, traveling, competing in contests, or discussing academics and current events with their peers. Students usually graduate at age 22 or 23. For approximately four years, undergraduates pursue this lifestyle with vigor as well as anguish, and experience the joy of their academic accomplishments.
In every country around the word, college campuses exhibit an atmosphere of vibrant pursuit of knowledge. As students seek their educational goals, they also learn to live with other students who share similar ambitions. The community spirit of college life is active and engaging.
Comparable to all these preparations and activities is the cost of education. In most Western countries students learn to work for their expenses, or take out bank loans or government loans to pay for their education. While the cost may be high, the joys accrued from such endeavors are long lasting. We mush always determine where we are going, what we want to achieve in life, and then forge ahead to achieve our life’s dreams.
·Did you do this just after entering the university?
Determine a study schedule.
Learn the major's prerequisites and requirements.
Meet with an advisor.
Meet your instructors.
Take time to socialize.
Know your campus and the resources it has to offer.
Set up a monthly budget.
Balance work and play.
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Roommate Icebreakers
·Practice of Text Contents: Communication Activities:
The problems:
Student life is probably more difficult than at any time before. There are so many pressures - study, time, money, relationships, job hopes, and more. Our previous experience and education do not always equip us to face these. Many would not admit it, but find real problems with life at college.
The questions:
We often want to examine the big questions of life, when we are at college. Where am I going? How will I use my life? What is the purpose of life? Why is the world in a mess? What about pollution and the environment? What can I do to help? Can the world be changed? Can we help you? Covering many common problems of life - worry, fear, stress, money, exams, depression and many others.
·Further detailed discussion:
1,What is your expectation before coming into the university?
2,Make a comparison between the high school life and university life?
3,Sharing the opinion with the others about: talking about what your university life looks like.
4,Compulsory and selected courses, which are more important?
5,What is education all about?
6,Are you doodling in your classes or gazing off into space as your teachers lecture for 45 minutes? Both are complaining each other, what’s wrong about it?
7,Identify what you like best about your courses taken by you this semester.
8,Grades shouldn’t be used as the motivation to learn, but it is impossible for teachers to grade objectively. Usually grades are based on very subjective conditions like personality and appearance of a student.
9, grading is a systematic way to evaluate students’ progress and students expect to get feedback from teachers, and is therefore necessary for the students to receive grades fro their work.
10, brainstorm some questions like the above-mentioned topics.下载本文