In order to avoid emptiness, I'll tell you from my own experience.
1. like this major
Choose the right major and fall in love with it.
Two flowers bloom, one each.
(a) intends to engage in a profession-related occupation in the future
There is no doubt that you must devote yourself to your major.
Make good use of school resources, such as HowNet campus-level IP, and read more professional papers in this field;
Discuss problems with teachers and professors more, and the teacher's broad vision will definitely help you or give you tips;
If possible, I will start to do odd jobs in the laboratory in my sophomore year, and the environment has a great influence on my study.
You can spend time doing some small research. For example, during my sophomore summer vacation, my classmates began to organize a group to design drones, compile single-chip computers and compile MATLAB face recognition. These may seem naive in the future, but they are excellent points to cultivate professional interest.
Four years of undergraduate professional knowledge is still a drop in the bucket in the society. If you want to go far in the professional field, graduate students are essential.
(b) He intends to pursue a career unrelated to his major in the future.
Under the condition of ensuring moderate professional achievements, we should strive to cultivate interest and develop into specialties. For example, my major now is information and communication engineering, and I know that I am not suitable for research, so I will try my best to turn my other interests into specialties under the premise of ensuring my major, so as to realize them in my future work.
Cultivate interest
Don't let games be your only interest.
This is the difference between college and high school. There are various ways to make you stand out. Achievement is no longer the only evaluation criterion, or even an important criterion.
In the fields of design, programming, dancing, singing and management, a number of enviable gods will emerge. And what they are good at is actually the result of interest. When we are upset, interest can relax us.
When I was a freshman, I participated in a school's entrepreneurship competition and was exposed to PPT, speech and two fields. Because I felt the importance of PPT and speech in the exhibition, I repeatedly pondered two pieces. At that time, I wanted to find the treasure and found the mystery. And make them my interest until now. When I am bored, I will watch some master PPT works on the Internet and copy them myself. I will also watch some videos of speeches like Jobs Obama to enrich my time.
Of course, sports interest is also very important, and you can't always stay in front of the computer. In the first year of my sophomore year, I kept the habit of playing billiards with gay friends every weekend (yes, billiards ... because there is a billiards room in the corner downstairs of the dormitory). Although it is not "aerobic exercise", every time you play, it is a very relaxing moment. There are also fun running, table tennis and badminton.
The key point is:
Interest will not appear without warning, it needs opportunities. Join an interest-oriented society, participate in a competition, participate in a public welfare action, participate in an interesting sports meeting, listen to a lecture, and meet a group of interesting people ... These opportunities will provide a good interest choice.
Exercise your specialty.
This is an effective means to cultivate self-confidence and upgrade the steps. Comparing with others when working in the society in the future is also a kind of ability obstacle.
According to the theory of 10000 hours in Alien, any extremely strong skill needs more than 10000 hours of training. Universities can complete 50% accumulation first.
Because I was exposed to PPT and speeches in a freshman competition, I studied hard when I was bored, and gradually found myself stronger in these two pieces. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are my specialty.
I made an original PPT template and sold it online. At present, the monthly sales volume is nearly 3000 (of course, all templates are free); I have held PPT training classes at school to help students learn and share their speaking skills. Occasionally upload excellent videos, hoping to bring new ideas to friends' lives, with an audience of nearly 20 thousand; Run the official WeChat account, share some interesting knowledge and so on.
In addition, I am now a PPT designer, and I can pay for my living expenses.
One obvious change is that when you become a "great god" in the eyes of others, you can bring happiness and self-confidence to your life and provide motivation for progress. This is a good positive feedback process.
Every major needs long-term accumulation, and time is the only shortcut in professional development planning. And an important reason for you to stick to it is that it is your hobby and you can feel happy in the process. One day, when your interest turns into your specialty, your specialty will turn into your ability and be realized.
make friends
The importance of this point is also a cliche. Network resources are also an important part of our ability. If you have a specialty, you can easily "replace resources" with your friends.
There are often dragons in the deep mountains, and the road height has its own phoenix habitat. Numbers mean that the stronger you are, the stronger the people you know around you and the shorter the distance between them. For example, the distance between a star entrepreneur and a star is very short, while the distance between two obscure grassroots workers from different companies is very far.
This is not utilitarianism, but the importance of improving self-ability. The strength of network resources is based on its own ability. See Rui Chenggang's counterexample.
It is very important that personal resources are given in two directions. One direction is just to help, such as "old friends" who have not seen for a long time.
The rest is to read more and think more, and keep your mind independent. It's useless here.