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COLLEGE PRESSURES -- William Zinsser
An Article from The Norton Reader, Norton- Simon Publishing, 1978








Dear Carlos:
I desperately need a dean's excuse for my chem midterm which will begin in about 1
hour. All I can say is that I totally blew it this week. I've fallen incredibly, inconceivably behind.


Carlos: Help! I'm anxious to hear from you. I'll be in my room and won't leave it until I hear from
you. Tomorrow is the last day for .......


Carlos:
I
left
town
because
I
started

bugging
out
撤离

again.
I
stayed
up
all
night
to
finish
a
take-home
make-up exam
补考

and am typing it to hand in on the 10th. It was due on the 5th. P.S.
I'm going to the dentist. Pain is pretty bad.


Carlos: Probably by Friday I'll be able to get back to my studies. Right now I'm going to take a
long walk. This whole thing has taken a lot out of me.


Carlos:
I'm really up the proverbial creek
逆流而上
. The problem is I really
bombed
the history
final. Since I need that course for my major I ....


Carlos: Here follows
a tale of woe
悲剧

I went home this weekend, had to help my Mom, and
caught a fever so didn't have much time to study. My professor .....


Carlos: Aargh!! Trouble. Nothing original but everything's piling up at once. To be brief, my job
interview .....


Hey Carlos, good news! I've
got mononucleosis
.


Who are these
wretched supplicants
可怜的请求者
,
scribbling notes
写笔记

so laden with anxiety,
seeking such miracles of postponement and
balm
安慰
? They are men and women who belong to
Branford College, one of the twelve residential colleges at Yale University, and the messages are
just a few of the hundreds that they left for their dean, Carlos Hortas
-- often slipped under his
door at 4 a.m. -- last year.


But students like the ones who wrote those notes can also be found on campuses from coast to
coast
--
especially
in
New
England,
and
at
many
other
private
colleges
across
the
country
that
have high academic standards and highly motivated students. Nobody could doubt that the notes
are
real.
In
their
urgency
and
their

gallows
humor
充满怨恨的幽默

they
are
authentic
真实的

voices of a generation that is panicky to succeed.


My own connection with the message writers is that I am master of Branford College. I live in its
Gothic
quadrangle
四合院

and know the students well. (We have 485 of them.) I am
privy
秘密暗
中参与

to their hopes and fears -- and also to their
stereo music
立体声音乐

and their piercing

cries in the dead of night (
through tomorrow, they come to me to ask how to get through the rest of their lives.


Mainly
I
try
to
remind
them
that
the
road
ahead
is
a
long
one
and
that
it
will
have
more
unexpected
turns
than
they
think.
There
will
be
plenty
of
time
to
change
jobs,
change
careers,
change whole attitudes and approaches. They don't want to hear such liberating news. They want a
map
-- right now
-- that
they can follow
unswervingly
坚定不移地

to career security, financial
security, social security and,
presumably
大概地可能地
, a prepaid grave.


What I wish for all students is some release from the
clammy
湿冷的

grip of the future. I wish
them a chance to
savor
品尝

each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as
a
grim
糟糕的

preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall,
to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.


My wish, of course, is naive. One of the few rights that America does not proclaim is the right to
fail.
Achievement
is
the
national
god,
venerated
尊敬尊崇的

in
our
media
--
the
million
dollar
athlete, the wealthy executive -- and the glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of
such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.


I
see
four
kinds
of
pressure
working
on
college
students
today:
economic
pressure,
parental
pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure
自我引发的压力
.
It is easy to look around for
villians
恶棍

-- to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning
too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, the students for driving themselves
too hard. But there are are no villians, only victims.









there
so
much
suffering
in
the
world?'
or
'How
can
I
make
a
contribution?'
Today
it's,
'Do
you
think it would look better for getting into law school if I did a double major in history and political
science,
or
just
majored
in
one
of
them?'
Many
other
deans
confirmed
this
pattern.
One
said,

find an edge
找到优势

-- the intangible something that will look better on paper
if two students are about equal.
sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how
one appears in person. A is for Admirable and B is for
Borderline
及格
, even though, in Yale's
official system of grading, A means
looking very
good
is
no
longer
enough, especially
for
students
who
hope
to
go
on
to
law
school
or
medical
school.
They
know
that
entrance
into
the
better
schools
will
be
an
entrance
into
the
better
law
firms and better medical practices where they will make a lot of money. They also know that the
odds are harsh, Yale Law School, for instance,
matriculates
录取

170 students from an
applicant
pool
申请者

of 3,700; Harvard enrolls 550 from a pool of 7,000.


It's all very well for those of us who write letters of recommendation for our students to stress the
qualities
of
humanity
that
will
make
them
good
lawyers
or
doctors.
And
it's
nice
to
think
that

admission
officers
are
really
reading
our
letters
and
looking
for
the
extra
dimension
of
commitment
or
concern.
Still,
it
would
be
hard
for
a
student
not
to
visualize
these
officers
shuffling
洗牌蒙混

so
many
transcripts
studded
with
A's
that
they
regard
a
B
as
positively
shameful.


The pressure is almost as heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job.
Long gone
are the days of the

journeyed through college
通过大学

with a
certain
relaxation,
sampling
a
wide
variety
of
courses
--
music,
art,
philosophy,
classics,
anthropology, poetry, religion -- that would send them out as liberally educated men and women.
If I were an employer I would employ graduates who have this range and curiousity rather than
those
who
narrowly
purused
safe
subjects
and
high
grades.

I
know
countless
students
whose
inquiring minds exhilarate

excites


me
. I like to hear
the play of their ideas
想法的发挥
. I don't
know if they are getting A's or C's, and I don't care. I also like them as people. The country needs
them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They can't.


Nor can I blame them. They live in a
brutal economy
残酷的经济
. Tuition
学费
, room, and board
at most private colleges now comes to at least $$7,000, not counting books and fees. This might
seem
to
suggest
that
the
colleges
are
getting
rich.
But
they
are
equally

battered
by
遭遇饱受

inflation.
Tuition
covers
only
60%
of
what
it
costs
to
educate
a
student,
and
ordinarily
the
remainder
剩余

comes from what colleges receive in
endowments
捐款
,

grants
补贴
, and
gifts


.
Now
the
remainder
keeps
being
swallowed
by
the
cruel
costs
higher
every
year,

of
just
opening the doors. Heating oil is up. Insurance is up. Postage is up. Health premium costs are up.
Everything is up. Deficits are up. We are witnessing in America the creation of a
brotherhood of
paupers
乞丐帮兄弟会

-- colleges, parents and students, joined by the common bond of debt.


Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part- time at college and full-time during the
summer, to accrue $$5,000 in loans after four years -- loans that he must start to repay within one
year after graduation.
Exhorted at
告诫

commencement
毕业典礼

to go forth into the world, he is
already
behind
as
he
goes
forth.
How
could
he
not
feel
under
pressure
throughout
college
to
prepare for this day of reckoning? I have used
brevity
简便
. Women at
Yale are under no less pressure to justify their expensive education to themsleves, their parents,
and
society.
In
fact,
they
are
probably
under
more
pressure.
For
although
they
leave
college
superbly equipped to bring fresh leadership to traditionally male jobs, society hasn't yet caught up
with that fact.


Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply intertwined.


I see
many students taking pre-medical courses with joyless
tenacity
韧性
. They go off to their
labs as if they were going to the dentist.
It saddens me
because I know them in other corners of
their life as cheerful people.






劲舞团所有歌曲-突然累了


劲舞团所有歌曲-突然累了


劲舞团所有歌曲-突然累了


劲舞团所有歌曲-突然累了


劲舞团所有歌曲-突然累了


劲舞团所有歌曲-突然累了


劲舞团所有歌曲-突然累了


劲舞团所有歌曲-突然累了



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