Key university or a average student?
By carryli
@carryli (875)
China
4 responses
@howhigh (757)
• Canada
30 Apr 07
This is a hard question. But I think I would rather be an average student at a top university. Finishing in the top 10% of your class can be rewarding. It helps your reputation a lot but the fact that I am average in a top university is true whether I actually attend it or not so to seriously take pride in the achievement i would have to compare myself to the students from the top university otherwise I would be blinding myself.
In life there is your immediate environment and then everyone, relative to your immediate environment you may be one thing but to everyone you are likely somewhere in the middle. Usually in life there is someone better than you at what you do and that if you haven't found them its only a matter of time.
So to be I think the top university could be be more rewarding socially and academically because its a truer relative position for me, also it will give me a better picture of how I am to improve and it will let me compete in the right league so to speak.
I think this situation is akin to an Olympic hockey player playing in an under 20 league there whole life. If they aren't risking their worth or skills against an equal contrast the presented skill level or relative superiority is irrelevant.
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@amydawn11 (906)
• Canada
30 Apr 07
I am not in university but a few years ago i took my personal support worker course. The course was basically a year course crammed into 6 months. I really enjoyed it and i always try to to the best i can. I am one of those people that reaches for the top. I graduated second highest in my class with less than a full mark away from the top person. It just makes you feel really good to know you did so well. It's a great achievement.
@mysleepingheart (16)
• China
30 Apr 07
Frankly, famous university is a large fortune to a student,especially in China.
It's not idolaty of star-university, schoolmates&professor,experience&view will tell you the truth.
Daydreaming for Zhongshan University even though I have lefe my university nearly a whole year.
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@calvinleung (32)
• China
3 May 07
formerly, i am the top student in a average university. i had fallen the entrance examination of the top university.
the feel of success alway circle me . however, i donet cosider i am be enough. thus i enteance a top university in where become a graduate student theough try my best.
so ,i cosider mo matter what you are, try my best is right