麻省理工學(xué)院(MIT)雖不是常青藤大學(xué)，但依然是大多理科學(xué)生心中的圣殿。本·瓊斯(Ben Jones)曾是麻省理工招生處通訊主任。在他離任之前，瓊斯先生為大一的新生們留下了這張清單，里面包含了50條金玉良言，幫助從高中到大學(xué)適應(yīng)期里的學(xué)生盡快找到狀態(tài)，讓四年大學(xué)生活盡善盡美，不留遺憾！
作為過來人，我非常欣賞瓊斯先生的智慧和幽默。我想如果我大一的時候能有幸讀到這50句，我的大學(xué)一定會更加出彩。希望我的遺憾可以在你們的身上得到彌補(bǔ)。親愛的同學(xué)，請敞開心扉盡情享用這道心靈盛宴：
1. Your friends will change a lotover the next four years. Let them.
在這四年的時光里，你的很多朋友都會改變。要欣然接受這個事實(shí)。
2. Call someone you love back homea few times a week, even if just for a few minutes.
每星期給家里打幾次電話。即便每次只有幾分鐘。
3. In college more than everbefore, songs will attach themselves to memories. Every month or two, make amix cd, mp3 folder, whatever - just make sure you keep copies of these songs.Ten years out, they'll be as effective as a journal in taking you back to yourfavorite moments.
保持聽歌的習(xí)慣，它們會替你保存記憶。每過一段時間，把曾經(jīng)熱愛的歌曲保存下來。十年過后，當(dāng)你回來再聽時，一定會想起曾經(jīng)的美好時光。
4. Take naps in the middle of theafternoon with reckless abandon.
別光顧著學(xué)習(xí)，喝點(diǎn)下午茶，享受午后的時光。
5. Adjust your schedule aroundwhen you are most productive and creative. If you're nocturnal and doyour best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time in yourlife when you can.
在狀態(tài)最好的時候，調(diào)整一下你的作息。如果你在夜晚的創(chuàng)造力和工作效率是最強(qiáng)的，那就把握好這個時間。你或許只有在這個階段精力如此旺盛。
6. If you write your best papersthe night before they are due, don't let people tell you that you 'shouldbe more organized' or that you 'should plan better.' Differentthings work for different people. Personally, I worked best under pressure - soI always procrastinated... and always kicked ass (which annoyed my friends to noend). ;-) Use the freedom that comes with not having grades first semester toexperiment and see what works best for you.
如果你在交作業(yè)的前一晚才能靈感四射，妙筆生花，那就別聽別人所說的“你應(yīng)該早做準(zhǔn)備”或者“你應(yīng)該制定計劃”等鬼話。每個人的思維習(xí)慣和學(xué)習(xí)方法都不一樣。對我來說，我就更喜歡在強(qiáng)壓下工作，酷炫非常(這讓我的朋友們很無語)，不過我也經(jīng)常因此耽誤事兒……利用第一學(xué)期沒有什么課的便利條件，探索屬于你自己的學(xué)習(xí)方法。
7. At least a few times in yourcollege career, do something fun and irresponsible when you should be studying.The night before my freshman year psych final, my roommate somehow scored frontrow seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn't do so well onthe final, but I haven't thought about psych since 1993. I've thought about theexperience of going to that show (with the guy who is now my son's godfather)at least once a month ever since.
大學(xué)期間，你得做一些有趣而瘋狂的事情，即便你是個學(xué)霸！在大一的心理學(xué)期末考試前一晚，我的舍友搞到了藍(lán)色少女合唱團(tuán)的演出票，同去的男生后來成了我兒子的教父。那場考試我考得不好，不過后來我也沒怎么用到心理學(xué)。但那天晚上的經(jīng)歷卻時常浮現(xiàn)在我的腦海。
8. Become friends with yourfavorite professors. Recognize that they can learn from you too - in fact,that's part of the reason they chose to be professors.
跟你最喜歡的老師做朋友。不要妄自菲薄，他們也能從你身上學(xué)到東西。實(shí)際上，這也不正是你選他作老師的原因之一么？
9. Carve out an hour every singleday to be alone. (Sleeping doesn't count.)
每天要至少有一個小時是屬于你一個人的。(睡覺可不算)
10. Go on dates. Don't feel likeevery date has to turn into a relationship.
約會去。別給自己太多負(fù)擔(dān)，不是所有的約會都會變成戀情。
11. Don't date someone yourroommate has been in a relationship with.
別跟你室友的前任約會。
12. When your friends' parentsvisit, include them. You'll get free food, etc., and you'll help them to feellike they're cool, hangin' with the hip college kids.
如果你朋友的家長來了，就一起出去玩。你將會享受到免費(fèi)的大餐。你還能讓他們感覺到很酷——能跟年輕人玩到一起。
13. In the first month of college,send a hand-written letter to someone who made college possible for you anddescribe your adventures thus far. It will mean a lot to him/her now, and itwill mean a lot to you in ten years when he/she shows it to you.
剛上大學(xué)的前幾個月，給在大學(xué)之路上幫助過你的人寫一封紙質(zhì)的信。在信里，你可以描述當(dāng)時的無助與彷徨，以及對他的感激之情，這對他是非常有意義的——這對你也同樣有意義——當(dāng)他十年后把信念給你聽的時候。
14. Embrace the differences betweenyou and your classmates. Always be asking yourself, 'what can I learn fromthis person?' More of your education will come from this than from anyclassroom.
接受同學(xué)和你不一樣的地方。要時常問自己：“我能從他身上學(xué)到什么呢？”在同學(xué)身上學(xué)到的東西，比你在任何課堂上學(xué)到的都多。
15. All-nighters are entirelyoverrated.
夜貓子的做法是不可取的。
16. For those of you who have cometo college in a long-distance relationship with someone from high school:despite what many will tell you, it can work. The key is to not letyour relationship interfere with your college experience. If you don't want todate anyone else, that's totally fine! What's not fine, however, ismissing out on a lot of defining experiences because you're on the phone withyour boyfriend/girlfriend for three hours every day.
如果你跟另一半是異地戀——別聽別人的勸告，異地戀同樣可以長久。重要的是別讓戀愛過多地干擾你的校園生活。如果你不想跟其他人約會，完全沒有問題！只不過，這樣會讓你錯過很多大學(xué)的精彩，畢竟你一天有三個小時在跟另一半煲電話粥。
17. Working things out betweenfriends is best done in person, not over email. (IM does not count as 'inperson.') Often someone's facial expressions will tell you more thanhis/her words.
如果跟好友發(fā)生感情危機(jī)，當(dāng)面談，不要用上網(wǎng)或郵件的方式。一個人的表情往往比語言表達(dá)更多東西。
18. Take risks.
勇于冒險。
19. Don't be afraid of (or excitedby) the co-ed bathrooms. The thrill is over in about 2 seconds.
別害怕(或激動)進(jìn)公共浴室。這種感覺只會持續(xù)兩秒鐘。
20. Wednesday is the middle of theweek; therefore on Wednesday night the week is more than half over. You shouldcelebrate accordingly. (It makes Thursday and Friday a lot more fun.)
星期三在一周的中間，所以，到了星期三的晚上，一周已經(jīng)過了一半多啦！你應(yīng)該為此表示慶祝。(這讓星期四和星期五更加有活力)
21. Welcome failure into yourlives. It's how we grow. What matters is not that you failed, but that yourecovered.
接受失敗。我們就是這么長大的。重要的不是失敗，而是你重新啟程了。
22. Take some classes that havenothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it.
上一些跟專業(yè)無關(guān)的課。純粹是為了興趣。
23. It's important to think aboutthe future, but it's more important to be present in the now. You won't get themost out of college if you think of it as a stepping stone.
規(guī)劃將來很重要，但更重要的是活在當(dāng)下。如果你只把大學(xué)當(dāng)作了跳板，那你就不會從大學(xué)里學(xué)到太多東西。
24. When you're living on a collegecampus with 400 things going on every second of every day, watching TV ispretty much a waste of your time and a waste of your parents' money. If you'regoing to watch, watch with friends so at least you can call it a 'valuablesocial experience.'
如果你生活在每天都有大量事情發(fā)生的校園里，那么看電視不僅浪費(fèi)你的時間，也是在浪費(fèi)你父母的錢。如果你真想看，那就跟朋友一起看，這樣你還可以跟自己說你是在“增加社交經(jīng)驗”。
25. Don't be afraid to fall inlove. When it happens, don't take it for granted. Celebrate it, but don't letit define your college experience.
別怕談戀愛，享受這個過程。但是不要讓它作為定義你大學(xué)生活的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
26. Much of the time you once hadfor pleasure reading is going to disappear. Keep a list of the books you wouldhave read had you had the time, so that you can start reading them when yougraduate.
有時候你把讀書的最好時光給浪費(fèi)了。把你沒來得及讀的書列一張表，這樣你畢業(yè)之后就可以開始讀了。
27. Things that seem like the endof the world really do become funny with a little time and distance.Knowing this, forget the embarrassment and skip to the good part.
你遇到了一些“不可逾越”的困難時，過了那個時間點(diǎn)，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)那時的自己很好笑。知道了這點(diǎn)，就忘掉那些尷尬的瞬間吧，直接跳到后面光明的部分就好啦。
28. Every once in a while, therewill come an especially powerful moment when you can actually feel that anexperience has changed who you are. Embrace these, even if they are painful.
有的時候，某些經(jīng)歷會讓你瞬間變得強(qiáng)大起來。坦然面對，即便你很痛苦。
29. No matter what your politicalor religious beliefs, be open-minded. You're going to be challenged over thenext four years in ways you can't imagine, across all fronts. You can't learnif you're closed off.
不管你的政治觀念或宗教信仰是什么樣的，你都要學(xué)會包容。你以前的想法在大學(xué)四年的時光里，隨時都可能受到挑戰(zhàn)。把自己封閉起來，你不可能學(xué)到東西。
30. If you need to get a job, findsomething that you actually enjoy. Just because it's work doesn't mean it hasto suck.
如果你需要一份工作，就找你喜歡做的事情。不要因為它是工作，就可以糟糕透頂。
31. Don't always lead. It's good tofollow sometimes.
不要事事爭先，有時候跟著別人也挺好的。
32. Take a lot of pictures. One ofmy major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. Myexcuse was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and youhave plenty of hard drive space, soyou have no excuse.
多拍照片。我最大的遺憾就是在大學(xué)沒拍什么照片。借口總是太費(fèi)膠卷。數(shù)碼相機(jī)很便宜的，硬盤也有足夠的內(nèi)存，所以你是沒有借口的。
33. Your health and safety are moreimportant than anything.
健康和安全比什么都重要。
34. Ask for help. Often.
要經(jīng)常向別人尋求幫助。
35. Half of you will be in thebottom half of your class at any given moment. Way more than half of you willbe in the bottom half of your class at some point in the next four years. Getused to it.
在任何時候，你們班都有一半學(xué)習(xí)好的人一半學(xué)習(xí)差的人。你要習(xí)慣。
36. In ten years very few of youwill look as good as you do right now, so secretly revel in how hot you arebefore it's too late.
十年后，你們很多人都不如現(xiàn)在的狀態(tài)好。所以趁還不晚，好好享受人生。
37. In the longrun, where you go to college doesn't matter as much as what you dowith the opportunities you're given there. The MIT name on your resume won'tmean much if that's the only thing on your resume. As a student here,you will have access to a variety of unique opportunities that no one else willever have - don't waste them.
長遠(yuǎn)來看，你抓住的機(jī)會，比你在哪上大學(xué)強(qiáng)。如果你的簡歷上只有麻省理工學(xué)院的名字，那幾乎沒什么用處。學(xué)生時代有很多的機(jī)會，千萬不要浪費(fèi)了。
38. On the flip side, don't try todo everything. Balance = well-being.
另一方面，不要什么事情都去做。
39. Make perspective a priority. Ifyou're too close to something to have good perspective, rely on your friends tohelp you.
有規(guī)劃是好事。如果事情太急沒辦法規(guī)劃，向朋友尋求幫助。
40. Eat badly sometimes. It's thelast time in your life when you can do this without feeling guilty about it.
胡吃海喝吧！這是你瞎吃還沒有罪惡感的最后機(jī)會了。
41. Make a complete ass of yourselfat least once, preferably more. It builds character.
給自己一次當(dāng)傻瓜的機(jī)會吧！多多益善。這會塑造你的性格。
42. Wash your sheets more than oncea year. Trust me on this one.
一年多洗幾次床單。這點(diǎn)一定要聽我的。
43. If you are in a relationshipand none of your friends want to hang out with you and yoursignificant other, pay attention. They usually know better than you do.
如果你談了戀愛，可朋友們沒人愿意與你倆一起玩，你就得注意點(diǎn)兒了。你朋友比你看得清楚。
44. Don't be afraid of the weirdpizza topping combinations that your new friend from across the country loves.Some of the truly awful ones actually taste pretty good. Expand your horizons.
不要因為新朋友喜歡古怪的披薩糕點(diǎn)而大驚小怪。那些看上去糟糕的東西有時候真心好吃。要開闊眼界。
45. Explore the campus thoroughly.Don't get caught.
充分地了解你的大學(xué)，發(fā)現(xiàn)校園里的新鮮事。
46. Life is too short to stick witha course of study that you're no longer excited about. Switch, even if itcomplicates things.
人生苦短，不應(yīng)該把時間放在自己不感興趣的事業(yè)中。如果你不喜歡你的專業(yè)，就去換，即便有時候挺麻煩。
47. Tattoos are permanent. Be verycertain.
大部分紋身是洗不掉的。三思而后行。
48. Don't make fun of prefrosh. Thatwas you like 2 hours ago.
不要取笑大一新生，你當(dāng)年也是那樣。
49. Enjoy every second of the nextfour years. It is impossible to describe how quickly they pass.
享受接下來四年的每分每秒。一眨眼功夫你就畢業(yè)了。
50. This is the only time in yourlives when your only real responsibility is to learn. Try to rememberhow lucky you are every day.
你唯一的責(zé)任就是學(xué)習(xí)。每天要記住自己有多幸運(yùn)。
Be yourself. Create. Inspire, and beinspired. Grow. Laugh. Learn. Love. Welcome to some of the best years of yourlives.
做真實(shí)的自己。去創(chuàng)造，鼓勵別人及被鼓勵。好好成長，好好學(xué)習(xí)，勇敢去愛。歡迎來到你人生中最美好的年華。
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