Student:

The two-week military training ended successfully today. In the report performance just held, more than 900 freshmen in Xianyou Campus fully demonstrated the achievements of military training with full enthusiasm, high fighting spirit, vigorous pace, neat formation and skillful movements, and handed over the first excellent answer sheet of your college career. We express our sincere sympathy for your hard work! Congratulations to the collectives and individuals who have been commended by military training! I hope that in the future study and life, students will carry forward the good ideas, good styles and good traditions learned in military training, constantly hone themselves, surpass themselves, make positive progress and make continuous progress.

Students, since you stepped into the school gate of Putian College, you have become a member of the family of Putian College. Here, everyone will spend the most precious youth time in life and experience an important growth stage in life. Here, I want to share with you five tips for university growth:

First, clear objectives and tasks.

To enter the university, we should do two things well: "learn from each other's strengths" and "give full play to our strengths". Complementarity-that is, coordinating development and giving full play to advantages-is to tap potential and cultivate specialties. Coordinated development does not mean that everyone should do everything, but make up for their own personality defects and deficiencies. Expertise and professional knowledge are the basis for your future service to the people of the country and your foothold in society. Professor Li Yining once said: Universities give students three levels of things: knowledge, methods and vision. Vision is the highest realm, that is, the correct three views. A graduate of Yale University said that Yale University gave him not only specific knowledge, but also values, morality, lifestyle, thinking habits and so on, which were very important to his life. These things are not taught by someone, but exist in the cultural atmosphere of Yale University. Some courses are useless to you, and most of the knowledge will be forgotten after learning. Everyone should understand that learning knowledge is not just memorizing knowledge, but also enlightening their thinking ability and guiding them how to explore the unknown world and know the society through the process of learning. This is the method and vision, which is the key to university study.

What if you don't like your current major? You can apply for major changes below grade one, but the number is limited. The school has a minor major and a minor degree to meet everyone's professional needs. But the major is not necessarily your future career, it is just a learning platform. According to statistics, the professional counterpart rate of college students' employment is less than 30%. It must be irrational to give up your studies because you are too entangled in your major. There may be many different fields in a major, and maybe you will be interested in a certain field in the major. You should focus on choosing your favorite courses, learn thoroughly and learn well, and study hard in practical application and operation skills to form some professional skills and practical cognition that you are good at, rather than just being satisfied with passing the exam.

Second, cultivate good habits.

Success is a habit. Excellence in behavior is not true Excellence, but Excellence in habit is true Excellence. Aristotle once said: "Sow an action and reap a habit; Sow a habit and reap a character; Sow a character and reap a destiny. "Everyone should cultivate good study and living habits to adapt to university study and collective life. We should observe discipline, respect others, take the principle of not affecting others, and do more empathy. Be a "lark", work at sunrise and rest at sunset; Don't be an owl, surf the Internet at night and sleep in class. Students from all over the country, with different family backgrounds and living habits, will face all kinds of puzzles and contradictions in the process of growing up. They should be modest and tolerant, understand and support each other, form a harmonious study and life group, and create an environment and atmosphere conducive to physical and mental health.

Third, master scientific learning methods.

We should master scientific learning methods, improve learning efficiency and get twice the result with half the effort. It is necessary to quickly complete the transformation of learning style from middle school to university. To cultivate the ability of autonomous learning, we should learn to consult-know how to choose-know how to accumulate in today's information explosion. It is necessary to break the previous learning style which is mainly based on inheritance, develop the habit of rational thinking and independent judgment, strive to form a scientific knowledge structure and diverse ways of thinking, constantly enhance the awareness and ability of innovation, and improve the ability to analyze and solve problems.

Fourth, cultivate the spirit of hard struggle.

Here we review Marx's famous saying: "There is no royal road to science, and only those climbers who are not afraid of hardships on the rugged road can hope to reach that glorious peak." There is no shortcut to success, so we should always make "two friends": one is the playground and the other is the library; Be willing to eat "two things": one is "bitterness" and the other is "bitterness"; On the playground, you should "move like a rabbit", and in the library and classroom, you should "be as quiet as a virgin". In sweating and studying hard, we should bear hardships and cultivate perseverance and will. In order to make good use of his spare time, Einstein said, "People's differences arise in their spare time." Spare time can make or break a person. Lu Xun said: "I spend all my time drinking coffee in other people's works." I hope everyone can cultivate a hobby and specialty of sports during college, which will benefit you for life.

Fifth, actively participate in various practical activities.

Through practical activities, we can deepen our understanding of theory, increase new ways of learning, enhance our practical ability, cultivate our ability to grow our talents, and understand the society to complete socialization. The World Economic Cooperation Organization conducted a survey of 100 CEOs of multinational companies on the most important quality of talents in 2 1 century, and the answer was "single-minded". Responsibility, initiative, flexibility and creativity. Everyone should cultivate their sense of responsibility, communication and expression ability, organization and coordination ability and teamwork ability through practical activities. You can't "stay in school", you should go to the society, understand the society and complete the task of socialization.

Students, as your principal, I tell you frankly that Putian University is an ordinary local undergraduate school with poor school conditions and insufficient fame and influence. However, we have a large number of teaching and administrative staff who love their jobs and want to run the school well. With the support of provincial and municipal departments at all levels and 65,438+6,000 young students full of passion and vitality, our school will surely get better and better. Students are the main body and master of the school. Our new campus is under planning and construction. Everyone should understand the current difficulties of the school, regard the school as their home, actively participate in the reform and construction of the school, and grow together with the school.

Students, Putian College exists because of your pursuit and ideal, and is wonderful because of your struggle and creation. I hope that during the short college time, students can keep in mind the school motto of "Morality, Knowledge, Thinking and Action", realize their commitment to the future with actions, realize the trust of the times entrusted by the country and the nation, write a colorful green movement, and be a Puyuan person who "looks up at the stars, is down-to-earth and has ideals".

Finally, I would like to extend a warm welcome to my classmates again! I wish you all a happy life, good health and successful studies! The National Day holiday is coming. I hope everyone will have a safe and happy holiday. Thank you!