Yes, why do you have to go to a good university?
Are Peking University, Tsinghua, Harvard and Yale so worthy of people's yearning and even worship? Now? A useless degree? This is nothing new. Since this view has been paid attention to and even recognized, there must be a reason for its existence, right?
For example, the most obvious thing is that many business elites and industry leaders have never been embedded in Phnom Penh of top universities: Ma Yun, Ma Hua Teng and Dong Mingzhu, let alone a winner in the literary and art circles. Even if Bill Gates and Zuckerberg entered Harvard, they only started their own business empire after dropping out of school.
Wait a minute, please let me touch it? A useless degree? Logic: Because of education and later life? Success? There is no necessary connection? So education is not necessary? So it doesn't matter where you got your degree. So a good university is not necessary.
But wait, is going to college just to pave the way for your future career? When did school become such a utilitarian thing?
Let's put it aside for a while, shall we? Don't talk and ignore? Increase the weight for future career development? After that, what are the real benefits of attending a good university for a person? According to my study experience at Yale, I want to talk about my humble opinion.
A good university not only teaches you knowledge and skills, but also teaches you how to learn them.
Studying in a famous university is hardly tiring. This kind of fatigue is a kind of hard work, which is the strain of bones and muscles. In fact, the textbooks used by famous universities and ordinary universities are often similar, which means that the content and difficulty of the knowledge learned are not worlds apart.
Students majoring in economics should study the supply and demand curve in microeconomics, and students majoring in British and American literature should also read Shakespeare.
In my opinion, what is the key difference between excellent universities and ordinary schools in learning? Learn what? , but lies in? How to learn? Learning methods and processes are sometimes really different.
With the same knowledge, students in ordinary schools may just grasp the fur, recite concepts, practice several exercises and try a little; Students in top universities may digest a certain knowledge point deeply and stereoscopically through professors' explanations, small class discussions, extracurricular research, literature reading and thesis writing.
At Yale, every paper is difficult to write. In order to sort out the arguments of a paper, I often kill several books, go to the library several times, check the periodical database several times, and sometimes I need to exchange opinions face to face with the professor.
The process of writing should not be sloppy at all, and the logic, wording and sentences of the article are all needed? Solemn? Treat guests; When quoting other people's opinions and data, you must carefully annotate them and write them all out? Reference materials? Otherwise, even plagiarism may be held accountable.
Some senior three students even spend a whole semester? Depressed? Graduation thesis. When I finally got the professor's approval, my two senior friends actually cried with joy on the spot.
After all this? Torture? There is still experience, is it necessary? As an experienced person, frankly speaking, when I stayed up late studying hard, I really felt very tired and wanted to call names. However, the sense of accomplishment and progress after learning is like the infinite happiness after tasting good tea.
Needless to say, knowledge is solid, and the more important gains are various abilities improved through deep learning: reading ability, writing ability, analytical ability, critical thinking and so on. When these abilities are combined, a person's self-study ability is strengthened.
And good self-study ability is not only helpful for reading, but also beneficial for career life in the next few decades.
A good university is good at aura.
Young people in their early twenties have not yet fully formed their three views, and their personalities are still plastic. In the process of stabilizing the three views, everyone is more or less influenced by the people around him. If you want to be an excellent person, you'd better spend more time with people who are better than yourself.
Good university, the key? Okay？ Is it? People? All right. There is no good university that is not full of humanities and talented people.
After four years in a talented campus, you will come into contact with all kinds of talents. By taking classes, doing homework, exercising, chatting, traveling and falling in love with them, you will always be enveloped by their positive energy, unconsciously absorb their advantages and gradually become a better self.
Yale four years, let me feel honored with a big harvest, is with a group of? Super awesome? Some people became apprentices, classmates and alumni.
I rubbed my sleepy eyes with these magical classmates to catch up with the first class in the morning, studied hard in the library until dawn, drank and sang at big parties on Friday night, and took the train to visit museums and art galleries in new york on weekends. We discussed profound topics such as political democracy, biological experiments and ethics, gay rights, and even imagined our future together under the stars.
Every Yale student is releasing a positive atmosphere. In a friendly and harmonious atmosphere, you chase after me. With such a group of people, I dare not be lazy at all, let alone decadent.
Those students with prominent family backgrounds are not playboys at all. From them, I feel low-key, humble and polite.
Yale professors are a group of great people, their strength is ahead of the academic circles, and their influence extends to politics, business, literature and art and other fields. During my four years in college, I had the honor to study with Professor Robert Schler, a Nobel laureate in economics? Financial market theory? Discuss the future economic trend of China with Professor stephen roach, the former chief economist of Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific, and ask Professor David Svencen, the famous chief investment officer of Yale University Investment Office, for his investment experience.
Besides getting close to the legendary people in class? Character? I also had the privilege of communicating with professors in my life: learning kendo from Japanese professors, eating pig hands and drinking dark beer at the home of German history professors, and helping English writing professors take care of the flowers and plants in the back garden.
Because four years of classmate friendship is beautiful and unforgettable, we still keep close contact after graduation and are proud of our Yale alumni status. It is no exaggeration to say that Yale people are actively changing the world in every corner of the earth. Even a small town with only two Yale graduates can set up an alumni association.
In new york, San Francisco, London and other big cities in Europe and America, thousands of Yale people are active, ranging from nearly centenarians to young people in their twenties. They are all active in alumni activities.
After graduation, I like wearing a belt? Yale? Four Yale jerseys, in bold. This Yale logo helped me meet my alumni several times. On a trip to Hakodate, Hokkaido, an old Japanese gentleman came while watching the night scene on the dark top of the mountain in a Yale sweatshirt.
Ask excitedly in English:? Do you study at Yale? Hearing that I just graduated from Yale, he squeezed my hand more excitedly and congratulated me on completing my studies. I graduated from Yale 1972! ?
I was also very excited to see the president of the university in this remote Japanese town, and I chatted with the old gentleman about Yale in Japanese. Before I left, my old school friend handed me a business card? It turns out that he is a newly retired executive of Mitsubishi Group. ? Leo Jun, next time you come to Japan, please contact me as long as you are in Tokyo. ?
In short, if you want to get to know a group of people with high IQ and high EQ in the best years of your youth, and become friends/business partners/lovers with these people, so that they can bring you a steady stream of positive influences and changes, you must strive to get into a good school.
I believe that even students who are a little self-motivated want to be with excellent people, instead of being with students who are immersed in playing games, eating instant noodles, taking selfies to repair beauty, changing love objects and living in a muddle.
Famous school? Better platform? More resources? Leave? Success? Closer
What if people benefit from lifelong learning ability and excellent teachers and students? Okay？ I can't convince you to make up your mind to get tickets to famous universities, so let's talk about something practical. Okay？ .
The opportunities and resources that good universities bring to students are often top-notch. And seize a good opportunity, your starting point may be higher than others, and you will directly enter the' fast lane' of life development after graduation.
Good university, good platform, good opportunity? This is self-evident, but I still want to share a short story at Yale.
Every summer, several major investment banks on Wall Street recruit interns from junior to senior, and assign them to investment banking department, stock sales and trading department, research department and other departments for 8- 10 weeks.
Interns can get the salary equivalent to 890 thousand yuan at most, and those who perform well can get full-time in advance. Such a good cake is naturally contested by a group of juniors.
Before the internship interview, the recruitment teams of several major investment banks usually hold a presentation meeting with the candidates. A cordial meeting Tell the students what investment banks do. Tall? Where is it?
In September of that year, almost all investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and UBS visited Yale.
The company representatives they send, from big bosses to junior analysts, are mostly Yale alumni and students? Chew? I have no sense of distance. In addition to sharing serious tips about internship application, I will also talk about the odds of winning the Harvard-Yale football match, the best canteen in Yale, and even the romantic campus I once owned.
A Goldman Sachs intern with me, from an ordinary university in the southern United States, has accumulated working experience in banks and securities companies since freshman year. To be fair, he has outstanding ability and hard work, and he is definitely not lost to any intern in Ivy League University.
But he worked much harder than I did to get an internship: no investment bank gave a speech at his university, so he had to take several vacations to fly to new york to attend the meetings held by major investment banks at Wall Street headquarters? Group presentation? (open to all college students).
As a Yale student, I am much luckier and happier than him. Several investment banks not only let students attend classes at home, but also organized dozens of one-on-one coffee chats at Yale to further express their sincerity. Employees invite students to drink coffee (note that investment banks pay the bill) and make suggestions on students' internship applications.
Goldman Sachs even invited famous financial trainers from Wall Street to Yale to teach students, and everything was free. In the first round of interviews, some investment banks even put the examiner team? Lucky? Going to Yale campus saves students the trouble of catching the train to new york.
What about students in ordinary schools? Sorry, we won't organize on-site interviews in your school. ? Sorry, we don't have internship training courses for students in your school. ? Sorry, you need to book your own plane ticket to new york for an interview. ?
The story is a bit long-winded, but I just want to show everything that the famous students get? Preferential treatment? Say it without reservation. To tell the truth, writing here, I really feel a little wronged for the elites of ordinary universities? You work hard and are excellent, maybe even better than the famous students.
But because your school's fame and resources are not strong enough, it can't give you a high platform, a fast lane and an acceleration.
We can't shake this reality, but we can bypass it? Through hard work, I was admitted to a good university. Two people who are equally excellent, the one with a better platform, often have a better chance of winning, don't they?
Back to the beginning of the article? What are the advantages of going to a good university?
I hope the above three points can give some answers.