At the end of August last year, we were put into a large campus when we hadn’t yet completely recollected the pleasant flavor of the summer carnival. The new world is full of novelty as well as confusion. Suddenly, we find that there are a great number of roads that lead to the future, but we have no idea about which one is our own way. Three years later, perhaps we will laugh at our once young ignorance, or rejoice in the change and growth in more than one thousand days and nights, but, I believe, what sticks most in my mind will still be the initial confusion.

This kind of confusion is more obvious in the coordinates of our era. We move forward at an ever-accelerated pace but to a lost end. We can say that it is this era that makes us more confused---we come across Bill Gates, Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, which makes us, who compliance with the road set up by our parents, to get down to question the meaning of university and the halo that brand-name colleges bring to us. Perhaps you are now the one who get top GPA in the top university, or the one serves as a leader of the most famous students’ association in the campus, however, the value you can create for society unnecessarily matches one thousandth of a college dropout ten years later. Therefore, what should we do? All the time in my mind, University is a wonderful word that brings together so many charming and shining vocabularies---youth, pursuit, dream, freedom, etc. and thus motivates and inspires me to get through the college entrance examinations. Nevertheless, when I am really at college, those words seem a little unfamiliar, and a series of problems strongly occupy my mind. What’s the purpose and meaning of university?

To find the answer, not only do I watch Steve Jobs’ speech but also try to find a way forward in the speeches by Kai-Fu Lee and Yu Minhong. In reality, Job’s speech in Stanford University does provide me with a lot of inspirations. What impressed me the most was the viewpoint that we should have the courage to follow our heart and intuition.They somehow already know what we truly want to become. Besides, in this year I participated in many volunteer activities, and experience a full of joy in the process of helping others. Also, in a lecture, what impressed me the most was the viewpoint that colleges should focus on the training of students’ thinking mode and cultivating the spirit of exploring the truth while students are supposed to shape the morality and pursue their dreams, which was instructive for me. It also occurred to me that a professor argued that four things that a college student should do are finding the suitable occupation, seeking the lifelong companion, cultivating the sound personality, mediating on the meaning of life. All in all, I gradually understand that university is a place to acquire wisdom, feel love and keep the faith instead of spending four years to gain others’ recognitions.

Spending several years in college campus doesn’t mean that I am a real college student. Have I realized the importance of these four years? Am I ready to make the best of these four years and the available resources to cultivate a goal-directed, responsible, educated, diligent, passionate and persistent self? If I continue to move on with the high school student’s thinking, what I can get is perhaps a perfect GPA, a good GRE grade, or less, which is not my wishful college. After the long-time thought, I locate my target as To grow and help others grow, To live and help others live. Accordingly, I make a plan for myself, which I call it E&E Plan---Explore and Enrich. Specifically, For one thing, Explore is a outward route. I will participate in some commercial competitions and social practices to explore my future road and have a good understand of my role and effect in a team. For another thing, Enrich is a inward route. By reading, traveling and cultivating interests and hobbies, I intend to improve my inner self-culture. I do believe that we should dabble in a rich seam of books, which can lay a solid foundation for our further development.

I finally realize that college is not a lost paradise .It is the real and important four year in my life---A four years from teenager to adult. A four years that we can possess the most free time when we are young. A four years that we begin with a similar starting point but differentiate significantly when we graduate. I might not say clearly what university is, but I firmly believe, this is the four years that I must cherish, enjoy and fully experience!