麻省理工招生辦給大一新生的50個建議，被當作學習“教程”！

馬上將有很多新大一學生急不可待地奔赴夢想的校園了，面對新的四年大學生活，麻省理工大學招生官給新生們支招，給出了50個建議，被很多留學生家長當作“教程”，逐條對照“叮囑”即將奔赴學校的大一學子們。

親愛的同學：

這將是我寫給你們的最后一封信，新學期，我將要把重點放在新一年同學的身上了。我希望你們之間保持友誼，不要疏遠(也記得來看看我們!)

在你們大學生活剛開始的時候，給你們一些忠告，大學四年，你們可能忽略這些很重要的細節。

1、大學四年時光，你很多朋友都會變，要坦然接受這個事實。

2、每星期給家里打幾次電話，哪怕只有幾分鐘。

3、保持聽歌的習慣，它們會替你保存記憶。每過一段時間，把曾經熱愛的歌曲保存下來。十年后再聽它們，你一定會想起曾經的美好時光。

4、別光顧著學習，喝點下午茶，享受午后的時光。

5、在狀態最好的時候，調整一下你的作息。如果你在夜晚的創造力和工作效率是最強的，那就把握好這個時間。你或許只有在這個階段精力如此旺盛。

6、如果你在交作業的前一晚才能靈感四射，妙筆生花，那就別聽別人所說的“你應該早做準備”或者“你應該制定計劃”等鬼話。每個人的思維習慣和學習方法都不一樣。

7、大學期間，你得做一些有趣而瘋狂的事情，即便你是個學霸!

8、跟你最喜歡的老師做朋友。不要妄自菲薄，他們也能從你身上學到東西。實際上，這也不正是你選他做老師的原因之一嗎?

9、每天要至少有一個小時是屬于你一個人的(排除睡覺)。

10、去約會。不要有太多負擔，不是所有的約會都會變成戀情。

11、別跟你室友的前任約會。

12、如果你朋友的家長來了，就一起出去玩。你將會享受到免費的大餐。你還能讓他們感覺到很酷——能跟年輕人玩到一起。

13、剛上大學的前幾個月，給在大學之路上幫助過你的人寫一封紙質的信。在信里，你可以描述當時的無助與彷徨，以及對他的感激之情，這對他是非常有意義的——這對你也同樣有意義——當他十年后把信念給你聽的時候。

14、接受同學和你不一樣的地方。要時常問自己：“我能從他身上學到什么呢?”在同學身上學到的東西，比你在任何課堂上學到的都多。

15、夜貓子的做法是不可取的。

16、如果你跟另一半是異地戀——別聽別人的勸告，異地戀同樣可以長久。重要的是別讓戀愛過多地干擾你的校園生活。如果你不想跟其他人約會，完全沒有問題!只不過，這樣會讓你錯過很多大學的精彩，畢竟你一天有三個小時在跟另一半煲電話粥。

17、如果跟好友發生感情危機，當面談，不要用上網或郵件的方式。一個人的表情往往比語言表達更多東西。

18、勇于冒險。

19、別害怕(或激動)進公共浴室。這種感覺只會持續兩秒鐘。

20、星期三在一周的中間，所以，到了星期三的晚上，一周已經過了一半多啦!你應該為此表示慶祝。

21、接受失敗。重要的不是失敗，而是你重新啟程了。

22、上一些跟專業無關的課，純粹是為了興趣。

23、規劃將來很重要，但更重要的是活在當下。如果你只把大學當作了跳板，那你就不會從大學里學到太多東西。

24、如果你生活在每天都有大量事情發生的校園里，那么看電視不僅浪費你的時間，也是在浪費你父母的錢。如果你真想看，那就跟朋友一起看，這樣你還可以跟自己說你是在“增加社交經驗”。

25、別怕談戀愛，享受這個過程。但是不要讓它作為定義你大學生活的標準。

26、有時候你把讀書的最好時光給浪費了。把你沒來得及讀的書列一張表，這樣你畢業之后就可以開始讀了。

27、當你遇到了一些“不可逾越”的困難時，就忘掉那些尷尬的瞬間吧，直接跳到后面光明的部分就好啦。

28、某些經歷會讓你瞬間變得強大起來，坦然面對，即便你很痛苦。

29、不管你的政治觀念或宗教信仰是什么樣的，你都要學會包容。你以前的想法在大學四年的時光里，隨時都可能受到挑戰。把自己封閉起來，你不可能學到東西。

30、如果你需要一份工作，就找你喜歡做的事情。不要因為它是工作，就可以糟糕透頂。

31、不要事事爭先，有時候跟著別人也挺好的。

32、多拍照片。我最大的遺憾就是在大學沒拍什么照片。

33、健康和安全比什么都重要。

34、要經常向別人尋求幫助。

35、在任何時候，你們班都有一半學習好的人一半學習差的人，你要習慣。

36、十年后，你們很多人都不如現在的狀態好。所以趁還不晚，好好享受人生。

37、長遠來看，你抓住的機會，比你在哪上大學強。學生時代有很多的機會，千萬不要浪費了。

38、不要什么事情都去做。

39、有規劃是好事。如果事情太急沒辦法規劃，向朋友尋求幫助。

40、胡吃海喝吧!這是你瞎吃還沒有罪惡感的最后機會了。

41、給自己一次當傻瓜的機會吧!多多益善。這會塑造你的性格。

42、一年多洗幾次床單，這點一定要聽我的。

43、如果你談了戀愛，可朋友們沒人愿意與你倆一起玩，你就得注意點兒了。你朋友比你看得清楚。

44、不要因為新朋友喜歡古怪的披薩糕點而大驚小怪。那些看上去糟糕的東西有時候真心好吃，要開闊眼界。

45、充分地了解你的大學，發現校園里的新鮮事。

46、人生苦短，不應該把時間放在自己不感興趣的事業中。如果你不喜歡你的專業，就去換。

47、大部分紋身是洗不掉的。三思而后行。

48、不要取笑大一新生，你當年也是那樣。

49、享受接下來四年的每分每秒。一眨眼功夫你就畢業了。

50、你唯一的責任就是學習。每天要記住自己有多幸運。

做真實的自己，好好成長，好好學習，勇敢去愛。歡迎來到你人生中最美好的年華。

PS：以上50條建議，大一新生家長們可以逐一對照“叮囑”孩子了。

英文原版：

50 Things

As you begin your college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are important as you navigate the next four years. I hope that some of them are helpful.

Here goes...

Your friends will change a lot over the next four years. Let them.

Call someone you love back home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes.

In college more than ever before, songs will attach themselves to memories. Every month or two, make a mix cd, mp3 folder, whatever - just make sure you keep copies of these songs. Ten years out, they'll be as effective as a journal in taking you back to your favorite moments.

Take naps in the middle of the afternoon with reckless abandon.

Adjust your schedule around when you are most productive and creative. If you're nocturnal and do your best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time in your life when you can.

If you write your best papers the night before they are due, don't let people tell you that you "should be more organized" or that you "should plan better." Different things work for different people. Personally, I worked best under pressure - so I always procrastinated... and always kicked ass (which annoyed my friends to no end). ;-) Use the freedom that comes with not having grades first semester to experiment and see what works best for you.

At least a few times in your college career, do something fun and irresponsible when you should be studying. The night before my freshman year psych final, my roommate somehow scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about psych since 1993. I've thought about the experience of going to that show (with the guy who is now my son's godfather) at least once a month ever since.

Become friends with your favorite professors. Recognize that they can learn from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be professors.

Carve out an hour every single day to be alone. (Sleeping doesn't count.)

Go on dates. Don't feel like every date has to turn into a relationship.

Don't date someone your roommate has been in a relationship with.

When your friends' parents visit, include them. You'll get free food, etc., and you'll help them to feel like they're cool, hangin' with the hip college kids.

In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to someone who made college possible for you and describe your adventures thus far. It will mean a lot to him/her now, and it will mean a lot to you in ten years when he/she shows it to you.

Embrace the differences between you and your classmates. Always be asking yourself, "what can I learn from this person?" More of your education will come from this than from any classroom.

All-nighters are entirely overrated.

For those of you who have come to college in a long-distance relationship with someone from high school: despite what many will tell you, it can work. The key is to not let your relationship interfere with your college experience. If you don't want to date anyone else, that's totally fine! What's not fine, however, is missing out on a lot of defining experiences because you're on the phone with your boyfriend/girlfriend for three hours every day.

Working things out between friends is best done in person, not over email. (IM does not count as "in person.") Often someone's facial expressions will tell you more than his/her words.

Take risks.

Don't be afraid of (or excited by) the co-ed bathrooms. The thrill is over in about 2 seconds.

Wednesday is the middle of the week; therefore on wednesday night the week is more than half over. You should celebrate accordingly. (It makes thursday and friday a lot more fun.)

Welcome failure into your lives. It's how we grow. What matters is not that you failed, but that you recovered.

Take some classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it.

It's important to think about the future, but it's more important to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you think of it as a stepping stone.

When you're living on a college campus with 400 things going on every second of every day, watching TV is pretty much a waste of your time and a waste of your parents' money. If you're going to watch, watch with friends so at least you can call it a "valuable social experience."

Don't be afraid to fall in love. When it happens, don't take it for granted. Celebrate it, but don't let it define your college experience.

Much of the time you once had for pleasure reading is going to disappear. Keep a list of the books you would have read had you had the time, so that you can start reading them when you graduate.

Things that seem like the end of the world really do become funny with a little time and distance. Knowing this, forget the embarassment and skip to the good part.

Every once in awhile, there will come an especially powerful moment when you can actually feel that an experience has changed who you are. Embrace these, even if they are painful.

No matter what your political or religious beliefs, be open-minded. You're going to be challenged over the next four years in ways you can't imagine, across all fronts. You can't learn if you're closed off.

If you need to get a job, find something that you actually enjoy. Just because it's work doesn't mean it has to suck.

Don't always lead. It's good to follow sometimes.

Take a lot of pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you have plenty of hard drive space, so you have no excuse.

Your health and safety are more important than anything.

Ask for help. Often.

Half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at any given moment. Way more than half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it.

In ten years very few of you will look as good as you do right now, so secretly revel in how hot you are before it's too late.

In the long run, where you go to college doesn't matter as much as what you do with the opportunities you're given there. The MIT name on your resume won't mean much if that's the only thing on your resume. As a student here, you will have access to a variety of unique opportunities that no one else will ever have - don't waste them.

On the flip side, don't try to do everything. Balance = well-being.

Make perspective a priority. If you're too close to something to have good perspective, rely on your friends to help you.

Eat badly sometimes. It's the last time in your life when you can do this without feeling guilty about it.

Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It builds character.

Wash your sheets more than once a year. Trust me on this one.

If you are in a relationship and none of your friends want to hang out with you and your significant other, pay attention. They usually know better than you do.

Don't be afraid of the weird pizza topping combinations that your new friend from across the country loves. Some of the truly awful ones actually taste pretty good. Expand your horizons.

Explore the campus thoroughly. Don't get caught.

Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you're no longer excited about. Switch, even if it complicates things.

Tattoos are permanent. Be very certain.

Don't make fun of prefrosh. That was you like 2 hours ago.

Enjoy every second of the next four years. It is impossible to describe how quickly they pass.

This is the only time in your lives when your only real responsibility is to learn. Try to remember how lucky you are every day.

Be yourself. Create. Inspire, and be inspired. Grow. Laugh. Learn. Love.

Welcome to some of the best years of your lives.

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