Je m'appelle Gabriel, et j'apprends le français.

In one’s lifetime, a person experiences many different stages, and he also has to do some changes to meet the demands in every stage. Yet what accompanies or helps everyone to pass through difficulties or dilemmas is his attitude. Growing from a naive child to a mature elder, a person constantly changes his attitude. In my opinion, I think people change their attitudes in their adolescence, their summer of life, and agedness.

In adolescence, people say goodbye to past childish deeds and somewhat start to think about their future seriously. I think people in this stage know that they are no longer children, their parents are expecting them, and after getting along with so many different kinds of other people, they become more mentally mature. People begin to have their goals. Some people think studying hard is the key to success, whereas others don’t think a diploma is the most import part of their future. Anyway, self-awareness appears.

When it comes to the summer of life, people begin to think about things from different angles. After graduating from school, people transfer their core of life to their careers and families. Out of great ambition or the will to better physical conditions, people abandon their previous simplicity and turn tactful, as well as sophisticated. This is irresistible, and is to survive this complicated society.

Recently, the trend to study abroad has been more and more obvious. What on earth has motivated those people to go overseas and be willing to study in another country? In my opinion, I think the reasons are mainly the sharpening of language skills, the pursuit of deep knowledge, and the expansion of an individual’s horizons.

A foreign country provides the best environment for foreign language learning. When studying abroad, a learner could improve both professional language usages, basic daily conversations, and furthermore, speaking skills. Take English for example. In domestic schools, English is taught as if it were merely a school study, rather than a language. Most students are trained to take tests, not to communicate in English. I consider it a very significant gain when studying abroad.

It’s easy to become a professor, but it’s not quite easy to become an A+ professor. I think the difference between an A+ professor and a common teacher is some specific characters. To win the respect from his students, a professor should be understanding in his students’ hard points, responsible for his teaching and good at interacting.

A professor should place himself in the student’s position. When giving lectures, he should adjust his teaching material according to the students’ learning situation, rather than indulge himself in his own professional world, or show off some very difficult knowledge. If the lecture is too hard or most of the students do not understand the lecture very well, the professor should slow down the steps or spend more time to explain. It is even a professor that has something unfamiliar to him. Therefore, standing in others’ shoes is very important.

A professor of responsibility has a positive effect to his students. If it is the professor himself that always gets late, asks for leave of absence, or even fails to answer the students’ questions, how does he demand those in front of the platform to give him respect as a teacher? In the long run, they become more and more inattentive and unconcerned. This lowers the study efficiency and weakens the learning will. Namely, a teacher without the sense of responsibility gives bad examples, and makes his students become just as irresponsible as he.

Nowadays, learning has become easier and more varied than before, but do all of the students know how to learn correctly? Or the progress becomes the bias instead? Most of now students don’t know how to learn effectively and efficiently. In my opinion, successful students should contain three important factors, successful attitudes, good time management, and the participation of extracurricular activities. 

Right attitudes are the key to the door of knowledge; however, successful attitudes lead students to success. Successful students have a winning attitude. They have both the determination and the self-discipline necessary for success. Successful students are always well-prepared in class, while common students only get prepared for tomorrow’s test. They show their curiosity and explore anything they don’t know. The questions conceived in their minds are more than the exercises in textbooks, and their initiative makes them more flexible, so they could come up with more ways to solve problems.

Good time management explains the sense of responsibility of a student. In college, the reason why students are unable to do things as scheduled, like attending class late or handing in homework late, is mostly sitting up all night long playing online games or fooling around with friends on weekends. This shows many of the students are in lack of the sense of responsibility. As students, finishing homework and attending class on time are both basic duties, but they totally don’t sense that the time spent on entertainment has minimized the time they could capitalize on. Therefore, good time management is quite paramount.