Essay 2-03b: University Life

There are a lot of universities in Japan, and I go to Kumamoto Gakuen University which is one of them now. I think that people who want to grow as a human go to university before finding a job. And am I growing as a human at university now? I don't think so. In addition, there are many university student similar to me, I think. How should we have university life?

I am a sophomore now, and I have messy university life. I go to university fourth a week, and I tentatively attend classes. At home, I do only my homework, and I hardly study by myself. I can't find work which I want to do in the future. Certainly, all of the world is so slack, and there are no employment. In addition, I work to earn my school expenses, so I don't have enough time to study hard. However, if there are a lot of employment and an economic recovery, I have messy university life like now. Can I find work which I want to do? I don't think so.

"When you were a student, how do you think about university?" I have asked to my parents. "Only people who wants to study harder and have much money goes to university" they said. They had their aim, and they made an effort. They had many classes, do their assignments completely, studied hard, had neat life, thought about their future seriously... In the old days, university students studies hard and they had enough knowledge to employ. If they come to contemporary university, they can be brilliant student, I think.

World economics sinks to bottom now, so there are no employment. It is not easy for university students. In other words, everything advances good after. Now is worst time for university student. I want to think about 25 years after. I believe that university students can choose their job in the future. If they can choose their job, they think about their future positively and they study harder than now, I think. They have more classes, think about their future more seriously, and they become neat. But only them, it is same to old university students. Times changed.

University student has to change with times, I think. For example, there are no computers in the old days. Today, all students has to use a computer. Now, there are more kind of learning than before, and university student has to learn them. They have to have more classes to know many kind of learning. If they can do it, they can find their work which they want to do easier. Most of university student doesn't have their aim, so they don't understand what should they do. To know many kind of learning help them to find thing they want to do.

In high school, our aim was being accepted by the university. We didn't think of university life, so we lost our aim after passing examination. When we lost our aim, we stop studying. We must study hard at university. University is place to study to grow as a human. Of course, working to earn our school expenses is very important. However, we don't have to make an excuse not to study with it.

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