哈佛女校长的讲演（转贴）

qlpy

http://www.youtube.com/v/CV48OJ7oYu8?version=3&hl=en_US

齐力

Very nice! Being the president of Harvard, her humble is incredibly respectable!

My niece had been accepted by Harvard in last Dec. (early acceptance). I wish I could visit the school by the time she enrolls.:laugh:

齐力

回复 10# 俺爱俺家

Are you serious? You will visit Harvard too？

qlpy

Congratulations! :clap:
Sooner or later, we'll meet each other in the school.
Be there or be square:laugh:

齐力

回复 11# 俺爱俺家

Thanks! I get your point now. For sue we will.
She is  a very smart girl. She got perfect score for both SAT and SMT test last year which was reported in the local TV news of the city she lives.

齐力

回复 12# 俺爱俺家

Can you please explain how does she think about Chinese high education system？  She said the number of college students in China are increasing a lot.

qlpy

回复 14# 齐力

No, I can't. How about you?

齐力

回复 17# 俺爱俺家

I didn't listen the whole speech. It is too long......

From what did I hear, she spent a lot of time  talking about how to connect with Chinese universities. She said she met presidents of Chinese universities last year. There is a new  undergraduate course “Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning" introduced to Tsinghua university by Professor Michael Sandel of Harvard University. She was so proud of this.

Like  every American mainstream, she addressed how it is important to communicate with Chinese universities; and in order to do so, learning language is critical.

Of cause I like the finance aid that Harvard provided to the students. My niece is one of the  beneficiary.

qlpy

回复 22# 齐力

Good luck to her for the future!

She looks excited? Sleepless nights? :laugh:

A new  undergraduate course is killing three birds with one stone.

qlpy

But let’s for a moment abandon our Harvard savoir faire,
那让我们还是暂时摘下那戴着的哈佛面具，

our imperturbability, our pretense of invulnerability,
收起那缺乏热情的冷漠，卸下我们看似刀枪不入的伪装，

and try to find the beginnings of some answers to your question.
让我们尝试去探寻你们问的一些问题的答案。

齐力

回复 9# 俺爱俺家

Sorry, it took so long to reply to you.
Althoug our family were not suprised she got accepted as we all know she is exceptional; but still, it was a big news for us. I don't know how excited she was.( She always smiles and laughs. ) I am sure her dad had sleepless nights.
:laugh:
Thank you for this posting!  It is a very good chance for me to learn English. I will download some sentences.

qlpy

回复 齐力

How confident you are!:thumbu:

qlpy

The answer is: you won’t know till you try.
答案是：你不试试就永远都不会知道。

But if you don’t try to do what you love — whether it is painting or biology or finance;
但如果你不试着去做自己热爱的事情，不管是玩泥巴还是生物还是金融，

if you don’t pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it.
如果连你自己都不去追求你认为最有价值的事，你终将后悔。

Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don’t begin with it.
人生路漫漫，你总有时间去给自己留“后路”，但可别一开始就走“后路”。

qlpy

I think of this as my parking space theory of career choice, and I have been sharing it with students for decades.
我把这叫做我的关于职业选择的“泊车”理论，几十年来我一直都在向学生们“兜售”我的这个理论。

Don’t park 20 blocks from your destination because you think you’ll never find a space.
不要因为怕到了目的地找不到停车位而把车停在距离目的地 20 个路口的地方。

Go where you want to be and then circle back to where you have to be.
直接到达你想去的地方，哪怕再绕回来停，你暂时停的地方只是你被迫停的地方。

qlpy

The meaning of your life is for you to make.
你们人生的价值将由你们去实现！

I can’t wait to see how you all turn out.
我都等不及想看看你们都最终会如何。

Do come back, from time to time, and let us know.
毕业以后和学校常联系，常回“家”看看，让我们了解你们的情况。