By Hu Wo (Cuckoo’s Song)
AS USUAL, all students who have passed the matriculation examination tend to choose and go to a university per their scores, especially the entrance scores set by relevant universities. Since the university is a paradise for most students and teachers as far as I can see, they almost always enjoy a university life in their bones. Basic education is quite different from higher education in which students mainly study all by themselves rather than with the help of their teachers. In other words, university students lead an independent life in many cases and use self-directed learning in their studies. From time immemorial, the university has been deemed a place where a child is taught to have grown into an adult to the core. Hence, choosing and going to a university becomes as important as having passed the matriculation examination.
Of course, university students are betwixt and between, that is, they are neither children nor adults. In the main, university attendees come from different backgrounds and situations such as regions, nationalities, religions, beliefs, and cultures. Thus, university students can meet a culture shock or culture bump either consciously or unconsciously, particularly in their university and hostel lives. Also, university teachers are not the same as school teachers at all. University teachers are given to treat their students like adults or even friends instead of like a child. Most of them use the lecture method or sometimes the lecture-discussion method in their instruction as a teacher-centred approach or an authoritative style of teaching. However, university students usually feel free to do their major studies, assignments, and tutorial exams all to themselves as described above. Because the students have to dedicate their priceless time in decades to attending university as in school, they should choose and go to university pretty carefully.
So, the choice of a university to join is of great importance to every student. Some students can attend the university that they want to. They are also happy with their educational success in university to the full extent that they can achieve. The more success these students wish to get in education, the better they will be trying throughout their academic terms. But for some students who cannot go to their selected universities, even any educational achievement in university will possibly be nothing strange to them. Sometimes, they like to fall out of their education; they have no desire to try it on. Here, the exception proves the rule. Sad to say, some students have no chance of attending their dream university simply due to their home socio-economic conditions, especially educational fees. Other students choose to go to their desired universities by mistake. Only after a few years of their educational terms do they get to know that their university choice was wrong. What I want to say herein is that their wrongly selected universities, major subjects in particular, do not match up with their very likes and satisfaction in education. Accordingly, university students should have set their distinct educational aims and goals even while they are studying in basic education schools. Some students attend a university following their parents’ wishes only, but they would like to go to another university. A university student has to be given a chance to freely choose the university, relying upon his or her natural hobby. Some seniors are under the illusion that they are getting to feel an enjoyable university life bit by bit as long as their academic years last. Despite this, juniors can be different from them in one way or another. In truth, a university student should not spend too much of his or her time attending the university that they do not want to. Certain students go to university just for a bachelor’s degree; they do not have any apparent reason for it. They may or may not live a married life after their targeted education. Whatever is said, university attendance must not be merely a waste of time. It would be best if university degrees go together with a student’s future jobs. And he or she will have to be a success in education in the future, following his or her great resolution.
I think that there is no university where students are not happy in the world at all. University students like celebrating freshers’ welcome and farewell parties as well as paying homage ceremonies and other events as always. Senior students behave well towards their seniors like their biological siblings. The students share their regional knowledge, religious beliefs, cultural norms, language skills, digital literacy and many others inside or outside the university. What is more, they imitate their close classmates’ or flatmates’ habits to the letter. Strangely enough, some students unexpectedly find their life partners-to-be at university. As for me, going to a university may be the U-turn of a student’s life. Also, university life is the happiest moment together with friends and teachers for all students, I believe. As any student needs to spend nearly one-third of his or her life in education, he or she ought to choose and attend the university for a living.
