Writing Assignment 2 (1st Version)

A Student’s Place

     How do you define a student? I think everyone has different opinions; you can define a student by his or her age, school performance or maybe the attitude toward study. My personal opinions on becoming a student can be divided into three processes.

     Firstly, redefine “being a student.” What is usually meant by “I am a student”? You “become a student” when you go to school on the first day. After graduating from high school, college or graduate school, you are not a student anymore. I believe that is most people think about being a student. However, the meaning of being a student is more than that. As a student, you should do your best to embrace knowledge as well as skills which you learn from school. What’s more, apply what you learn in your daily life is also very important. This is not about the identity but the effort you made.

     The second process is “learn by yourself.” A student does not necessarily have to learn from teachers. Sometimes, learning by yourself you can gain more than being taught by teachers or professors. Thanks to today’s technology, a student can use a lot of tools to acquire knowledge. By the Internet, you can search countless information to do more research on your study. By other resources, such as novels, movies or even songs, they can teach you something your teachers would never tell you in the class. Somehow, those things can give inspiration and influence your entire life. This is about your attitude, whether you have a highly-motivated attitude toward learning new things or not.

     The last process is “enjoy learning.” I think for everybody that enjoy what you have to do in life is the best way to do those things right. For a student, the first priority in the things-to-do list should be homework or something related to study. However, the things that a student needs to do firstly do not mean those things will be finished firstly. If a student cannot enjoy studying and learning, I think that he or she would learn nothing in the end. Therefore, enjoy and love learning is key element of being a student.

     To sum up, “being a student” is not about the identity. It is all about how much effort you made to learn, your attitude toward learning new things and whether you can enjoy and love learning or not.