【正文】 age of his employees is only 39。s the secret behind the success of his young team? “Sagacity,” he told us, “In other words, being conscious of what one is doing and what one is able to do.”Exactly!As a freshman about to be a sophomore, I realize now that our time and stamina don39。t allow us to extend ourselves in all the moral responsibility of college education is to teach students the art of making important matter how hard the growing pains are, mastering this art is at the heart of every undergraduate39。s success, whether in school now or in life later I am learning to make such this petition, for instance, has been 39。ve wanted to fully experience this contest, to make friends, to discover what my age peers believe and to stretch myself in new and unexpected imagine this is true for most contestants here to do so, we39。ve chosen to set aside pleasures, such as watching TV series “Friends” and karaoke evenings, so we could invest more time in more reading, speaking, and this petition, by forcing us to take charge of our decisions, has surely helped us define our values, find out what we39。re capable of doing, and learn what best suits our individual believe this knowledge of one39。s own caliber is the most valuable, integral and longest lasting lesson for students in this increasingly petitive for the challenges and opportunities for us, they will be determined by how adequately our education trains us to gain a clear perception of ourselves, and thereby to make sensible choices that education, as British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said, “should be energizing as the poet of our dreams and the architect of our purposes.” Such purpose, selfdiscipline and vision all hinge on the art of I look back on the advice received those very first days on campus, I no longer feel perplexed, because I now have my own guideline: Make choices that lead to a clearer vision of who I am, what I can do, and how I may best tap my horizon is now wide but the taste already feels you!鐘雨柔：清華大學選手，第九屆“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽季軍。演講稿：Prepared SpeechGood morning, ladies and present, my fellow students and I have before us great personal and educational the same time, we are running into a variety of 39。s college education provides us with opportunities for bringing out the creativity and talent that we have within is nurtured both by our learned professors, and by the growing dimension of knowledge sources, such as the World Wide Web and multimedia educational experience is being transformed both within and beyond the traditional , challenges still the end of every semester, students in my university are required to fill out a questionnaire as a review of the previous questions usually cover a broad range of college life, from curriculum adjustment to canteen almost every time, the questionnaire includes one essential question, that is: As a college student, what are your major challenges? And almost every answer includes two aspects: studying and two challenges will remain our preoccupations as long as we live in such a petitive series of challenges in our studies start from almost the beginning of our freshman may wonder whether we39。ve chosen the right may wonder if the extracurricular activities add credits to our may work our heads off to get a glorious A, because B is already mediocre and C is almost on we may be peting with our hardworking, intelligent peers, including our best friends to get into an ideal graduate of these sound so familiar and they have somehow made our college education so goalobsessed that we sometimes fail to fully enjoy our educational from challenges in learning, there are also professional petitive world today has also brought about the “Knowledge Economy,” which requires the effective use of knowledge for economic and social development, and also requires skilled and multioriented students with a marketable vocational , sophisticated calculations upon the value of a university degree are being employability statistics are being like resume writing and interview skills are seen as a as I39。ve said above, when professional concern dominates our college education, we may lose the essence of our educational , facing these two challenges, how can students manage to be what the employers seek and at the same time to enjoy a valuable, insightful and rewarding educational experience?For me, the solution to the problem lies in what can be called an “Educational Synthesis”.I remember attending a lecture by Professor Tu Weiming, director of Harvard Yenching his lecture, Professor Tu argued that the ideal state of college education is to arrive at a synthesis, a bination of specific knowledge, humanistic insight and sense of social , there is much to do to bridge the gap between our educational experience in college and the social employment in society.“Educational synthesis” can help us narrow the , today39。s college education provides us with such a diverse this diverse world we may choose what we want to form our own educational and gentlemen, as Charles Dickens once mented upon the time of the French Revolution, “It was the best of times。it was the worst of times.” And I39。m afraid so it is with our believe, once we achieve our own educational synthesis, we will be able to transform our challenges into will be able to see the best time of our more importantly, we will be able to see the best time of our you.