I once said in the Fourth Letter: "University is a critical stage of life. This is because this is your last chance to receive a systematic education in your life. This is the last time you devote yourself to building your own knowledge base. This may be the last stage in your life where you can spend a lot of time studying, or it may be the last stage where you can have high plasticity and constantly correct yourself. This may be the last time you learn how to be a man in a relatively tolerant environment. "

Therefore, these four years are your most precious four years. On the "My Learning Network", countless students lamented that they had achieved nothing in the past four years. Never let yourself be one of these students in three years.

If you have more time, you need to arrange, plan and manage your own time. Here are some suggestions on how to manage time:

1. Don't be a slave to "emergency". To prioritize things, the "heavy" and "urgent" here are different. It is urgent to prepare for tomorrow's exam, and it is important to cultivate your enthusiasm. People's inertia is to do the most urgent things first, but often important things are given up because of this. Most urgent things are actually not important, and many important things are not urgent. Therefore, don't spend all your time on seemingly "urgent" things, but leave some time to do really "important" things, such as laying a good foundation of knowledge and learning to be a man. One way to manage your time every day is to decide the urgent and important things to do today in the morning and review whether the day has achieved a balance between them before going to bed.

2. Distinguish between "must do" and "don't do", and be "good enough" and "good enough is not good enough". There are so many "urgent things" and "important things" that it is unrealistic to want to do everything best. "Good enough is not good enough" should be the best, but "good enough is good" should be the best. I suggest you accept what you can't change with a good attitude and mind, and pay more attention to what you can change. Although I advocate "following my own heart", I must do what I want to do well while following my own interests. This is a basic sense of responsibility.

3. From the end, make a long-term blueprint plan and move towards your goals step by step, so that you can see the progress step by step and have more motivation and confidence to continue doing it (please see my third letter to China students). Time management, goal setting and goal execution are complementary, and time management and goal management are inseparable. The completion of each small goal will let you know clearly how far you are from the big goal. Your daily commitment to action is your pressure and motivation, which must be combined with your long-term goals. Therefore, if you want to work and live in a planned way, you need to manage your time well.

If you don't know what to do, look at the seven kinds of learning in my "fourth letter"

In the face of temptation, we must persist, and the extra time should be spent on things that can make us make continuous progress (such as reading materials and news on the Internet). In my fourth letter to China students, I suggested:

"The key moment of four years in college is the most easily lost time. You should have self-control, make some good friends, learn some good habits, and don't indulge in habits that don't help you (such as online games). An independent and active China classmate advised other students on my website:' Don't play games, at least don't play online games. None of my college friends who know their majors play games. Students who are addicted to online games are an escape from reality and unwilling to face their own shortcomings. In my opinion, if you want to get rid of online games, you have to cherish the precious time of college, find the direction you are interested in, and do something meaningful and satisfying. " "