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致新入学的你：学长给你的20条入学建议

As a freshman, the sense of being lost in a big new world was exciting, but at the same time I treasured every bit of advice I could get. Now that I'm a few years older, I thought I'd share some thoughts. More importantly, I went around and asked some of the most accomplished Penn students for what recommendations they'd give to freshmen.作为大学新生，在大的新世界里迷失的感觉很刺激，但同时我也珍视得到的每一点建议。既然我年长几岁，就想分享一些我的想法。更重要的是，我四处找了一些学业有成的宾夕法尼亚大学学生，让他们给新生提出了一些建议。

1. College is about the people you meet. Value them above all else.上大学就是跟人交往，要把他们看得比别的都重要。

2. Avoid eating alone. You should value this part of your day as a moment to talk to friends and meet new people.不要独自吃饭，你应该利用一天中吃饭的时间和朋友聊天并结交新朋友。

3. A romantic relationship is not a waste of time.谈恋爱并非浪费时间。 4. Your parents love and miss you. Indulge them with a call from time to time.父母爱你也想你，偶尔给他们打打电话。

5. There are people willing to help you with anything. All you have to do is ask.总是有人愿意给予你任何帮助，你需要做的就是寻求帮助。

6. You have two ears and one mouth, and that design happens to be intelligent.你有两只耳朵一张嘴，这个设计很明智。

7. Try to learn very different things. Some of the most confident and successful graduates are skilled in two seemingly polar subjects, like computer science and political science.努力学习非常难的东西，一些最自信、最成功的毕业生都擅长选两门对立学科，比如计算机和政治学。

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8. Don't take advice from movies, magazines, or newspapers. Read good books, learn by doing, and come to your own conclusions.不要从电影、杂志或报纸上获取建议，你要读好书，从实践中学习并得出自己的结论。 9. Appreciate your summers and use them wisely. Travel to Japan, write a book, read, follow things that interest you.感激你的暑假并有效利用之。去日本旅行、写本书、读读书、做些你感兴趣的事。

10. Protect your dreams. It's too easy to abandon something you care about because you're told it's not important.保护好你的梦想，有人告诉你你在乎的事并不重要时你很容易会放弃。

11. Ask for forgiveness, not for permission.请求原谅，而不要请求允许。 12. Your school is willing and eager to throw money at you in research grants.学校很愿意为你提供研究经费。

13. If you don't get, it may very well be because you don't ask.如果你没有得到，很有可能是你没有争取。

14. If you're faced with a choice between locking yourself up and studying for an exam or doing something much more epic and memorable, choose epic.如果你面临一个选择，是该把自己锁起来备考还是该做些更有意义、更难忘的事，那么你还是选择有意义的事吧。

15. Don't wait till senior year to do those things you want to do or become who you want to be.不要等到大四再去做你想做的事或成为你想成为的人。

16. Don't miss your classes because of sleeping in, but nap religiously in the middle of the day.不要因为睡过头了就逃课，应该保证午睡。 17. Pick up a book for fun once in a while.偶尔读本书娱乐一下。 18. Get a bike. It'll make the campus so much smaller.买个自行车，你会

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发现校园小了很多。

19. Find and protect the time of day when you're most productive.找到一天之中效率最高的时间段并保持住。

20. Don't be complacent but be happy. Be thankful for where you are. Everything is already pretty great.不要自满，要开心，要感激你能在这里，一切都已经很好了

在职场，如何得到别人的尊重？

Contrary to popular belief, neither a fancy job title nor years of experience will earn you respect at work.与大众所认同的观点有所不同，他人对自己的尊重并不能凭借亮眼的头衔或多年的工作经验就能得到的。 There are five infallible ways to earn respect and gain credibility, regardless of the organization you're in or the role you've been hired to do:不过确实有5个屡试不爽的方法，能够让你得到他人的尊重和信赖。不管你所处哪家公司还是哪个职位，都能适用。

1. Be yourself and not your role.1. 做自己而不是演角色。 Sometimes people think they must create a persona in order to command the respect of others. Bosses think they should be authority figures, salespeople think they should be fast talkers, engineers think they should be nerds, and so forth.有些人会认为，必须得为自己创造一个角色，才能更好地获得他人的尊重。比如，当老板的人会认为自己必须是权威的，销售人士会认为自己必须口若悬河，工程师会认为自己的形象应该是木讷的，等等。

However, who you really are is more likely to command respect than your ability to play a role that's unnatural to you. People have a natural ability to detect fakery, and see fakers as untrustworthy, insecure, and

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ultimately insignificant.然而，你本人的个性与那个你所充当的不自然的角色相比，更能获得他人的尊重。人们天生都有发现虚假的本领，并且都会把伪装的人视为不值得信赖，无安全感，甚至是微不足道的角色。

On the other hand, people are drawn to individuals who truly are what they seem to be. Being yourself (and at your best for whoever you are) is therefore the foundation of earning respect.另一方面，人们通常都会被那些表里一致的人所吸引。所以，做自己（并且尽可能做最真实的自己）才能从根本上获得他人的尊重。

2. Show curiosity about other people.2. 对他人表示关心。 If you're curious about other people, you listen, truly listen, to what they have to say. When people realize that they're really being heard, they'll tell you what's important (to them) about their jobs, their dreams, their fears, their goals.如果你对其他人感兴趣，那就倾听对方的话，真诚地聆听。当人们发现自己所说的话能够被他人听进去，他们就会跟你分享对于他们来说，工作、梦想、个人担忧以及目标的关键之处是什么。

That knowledge not only gives perspective on how to do your job better, but also helps you see how you can best help others. That's essential, because whenever you help other people, it increases their respect for you.这种学问不仅能够为你更好地胜任这份工作提供了指导方向，还能让你更好地了解如何去帮助他人。这是很重要的，因为无论何时你为他人提供了帮助，都能够增添他人对你的尊重。

In a larger sense, curiosity about other people helps you do just about any job better. Bosses more easily manage people when they understand them, salespeople more easily discover customer needs, and engineers even build products that more people want to use.从更

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