Autumn is crisp, and under the charming sunshine in September, another batch of fresh blood has been injected into our campus-the freshmen of Class ——20xx. Welcome to join the warm family of XXX College! Just like when I first stepped into the campus two years ago, you must be very excited at this moment. Yes, because you are about to step into a flowery campus, an old place that makes people want to stay, an endless and vibrant hot land. On behalf of all the members of our student union and all the students in our college, I would like to express my sincere congratulations and warm welcome to you!
As your senior, I want to tell you that after a short rest, you will start a new journey full of passion and high morale. University is an important stage of life, and it is also a beautiful stage of life. The unique campus culture will make you move from naivety to maturity and from fantasy to ideal. I think this is what every student expects and pursues. High-rise buildings have sprung up. Learning in college is a kind of high-level learning, which has its own characteristics and laws. We need to start from bit by bit: first, we should do our first self-design, determine the goals of college times, adjust our mentality as soon as possible, plan a perfect blueprint for our college life, and aim at the goals and pursue them persistently. Secondly, according to your major, choose the direction of university study. Specialty is the cornerstone of learning. On the premise of learning the basic knowledge of related majors well, master the methods of acquiring knowledge and cultivate and exercise their independent scientific thinking ability. Thirdly, we should start from every little thing in life and establish a good starting point for the university. Don't take small things for granted. Small things determine success or failure. Listen to the first lesson, do the first homework and learn the first lesson well. Accumulate and grow in small things, and spend the beautiful years of youth without regrets in college.
At the same time, I hope you can make preparations in advance and meet the new starting point of college life with confidence. Of course, when I first entered the university, I was ignorant and asked myself two questions like you now: "What am I doing here?" "What kind of person will I be?" Yes, life is like a ship sailing at night. One by one, we always have to save ourselves the problem of building a tower foundation. Our answer is to light our own lighthouse. When thinking about this problem, we are setting up a lighthouse for college life in the next three years or longer. Although the road ahead is long and the beacon lights are bright, we will continue to correct our course step by step and move towards the coordinate origin of that life. I firmly believe that as long as we firmly believe and work hard, we will succeed and reap the fruits we want. As your new friend and senior, I have to remind you that campus life is not as easy as some people think. You will face a new life that depends not on your parents but on your classmates. Here, there is no full-fledged shelter, but more mutual concern and understanding between classmates and roommates; Here, there is no teacher "forcing" you to work harder, but more friendly "infighting" between classmates. Here, no one will blame you for staring blankly at the cold wall More importantly, the surrounding environment invisibly attracts you to explore the richness of campus culture. I dare to say this because my classmates and I have already passed by. Lazy life is bound to melt a lot of passion, ideals, determination and pursuit, and even make life just "alive". Therefore, my new alumni, "busy" and "hard" have always been just the summary of behavior by outsiders, not the self-psychological feelings of busy and hard people. Of course, as the president of the Student Union, every colleague and I have been working hard to create a colorful, positive, civilized and harmonious campus atmosphere. We always open the door to welcome your participation and joining, and we are willing to solve your problems. "One day, I will ride the long wind, break through the stormy waves, sail straight and build a bridge on the deep sea." Let's pick up ten thousand volumes of anthology, absorb the essence of civilization, take every step in a down-to-earth manner and work together to create a bright and brilliant tomorrow in this endless and vibrant land!
Students, please remember: today I am proud of XXX, and tomorrow XXX will be proud of me! Finally, I wish all the students a full and happy life together in the future college life!
Freshmen's opening ceremony, the second selected speech, 3 speeches.
Dear students:
Today, I am honored to welcome you to Tsinghua University with all the teachers, students and staff-I look forward to your vigorous vitality and humanistic feelings in Tsinghua, Shui Mu; Witness your youth dream and strive for the self-improvement of a century-old university.
As last year, I hope everyone will report separately in the invitation letter to the freshmen. Yesterday morning, I was at the orientation site, and I saw that many students came with their own luggage. Usman, a classmate from Xinjiang, took the train alone for more than 40 hours; There are also four students from Liuzhou, Guangxi, who persuaded their parents to go hand in hand. Here, I would like to express my appreciation and respect for your beginning to learn to move towards independence.
Students, you are the best of your peers. At this moment, you may still be immersed in the excitement of the journey and the joy of success, or you may be relieved to finally get rid of the Wenshan sea of exam-oriented education; Of course, you are more full of anxiety and expectation for college life. Today, I want to tell you that the university welcomes you not only with dreams, honors, passion and romance, but also with setbacks and failures. At the first class meeting, you will find that your thoughts are not deep and your vision is not wide, and you are no longer the only center of the group; In the first class, you will feel that the pace is too fast to adapt to, and it is no longer the focus of the teacher's eyes; In the first exam, you may fall behind and be disappointed, and your familiarity is no longer the first. In this way, you may begin to doubt your previous reading style and study habits, and even doubt your professional choice and ability potential. Students, frustration is a watershed between vanity and hope for success. Experiencing setbacks and learning from them is the only way for a person to grow up and mature, and it is also a compulsory part of university.
To learn from setbacks is to know how to reflect and learn to persist. For a long time, most of you have been educated with standard answers and are used to being "obedient" good children. As a listener and receiver of knowledge, you are undoubtedly excellent. But what is a university? University is to lay the foundation for your future development and prepare for your maturity and going to society. Universities cultivate not only the recipients of existing knowledge, but also the creators of the unknown world and the builders of the future society. What universities teach you is no longer the only answer, but the understanding of diversity and uncertainty. Knowing that even if you have the answer doesn't mean success. In the face of more and more complex choices and explorations without preset answers, it is inevitable to stumble. Knowing how to reflect is to re-recognize yourself, others and society in setbacks, redefine what success, honor and value are, and constantly ask the meaning of life. Learning to persist means firmly pursuing your own ideals in setbacks, always keeping curiosity about the unknown and longing for truth in your heart, and always adhering to the principles, lofty beliefs and lofty goals of being a man in the face of risk challenges. Students, only know how to reflect and learn to persist, can we grasp ourselves in setbacks, embrace youth and move towards maturity.
Learning from setbacks means finding confidence and challenging yourself. Frustration can be confusing. Many people will lose confidence and lose themselves in setbacks. Before coming to Tsinghua, they were "dreamers". After coming to Tsinghua, their dreams may be gone, leaving only "homesickness". Especially when you see all kinds of knowledge, information and opportunities coming at you, you will be more confused and confused, and you can't see clearly the way you want to go. College life is a process of searching and discovering. Only by finding your own goals and positioning in setbacks can you build up your self-confidence in life. When Zhang Chaoyang, CEO of Sohu, was studying in Tsinghua, he was also depressed about the gap between himself and others. He was in a bad mood and began to "abuse" himself: swimming in the cold pool in winter, or running several kilometers around Yuanmingyuan every day. It is this sense of frustration that makes him gradually firm and confident, dare to face all kinds of challenges and constantly explore his own career. Students, the intense and fulfilling life in Tsinghua campus will make you realize that success does not depend on your past achievements and foundation, nor on accidental coincidence, but on your own challenges, growth and maturity in the challenges. In the face of setbacks, only those who constantly expand their hearts can overcome themselves, find self-confidence and move from self-reliance to self-reliance in life.
Learning from setbacks means challenging authority and shaping personality. When you get to middle school, faced with the pressure of senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination, you will inevitably form the habit of relying on textbooks, trusting authority and obeying arrangements, and strive to walk faster and do better than others on the established route. When you arrive at the university, you can hear many wonderful lecture reports and meet many academic masters. Authority deserves our respect, but respect is not superstition and blind obedience. Last year, Mr. Ding Zhaozhong, the Nobel Prize winner, gave a speech in our school and introduced five most important experiments in his life. At the end of his speech, when talking about his experience of constantly making new achievements, he said: Science means that the majority obeys the minority, and only when a few people overthrow the concept of the majority can science develop forward. In May this year, Ben Sassen, President of the Hebrew University of Israel, visited us. We talked about the Jewish people for thousands of years. Although there is no famous palace building, it has created immortal glory in many fields such as thought, literature and science. The Jewish population accounts for 0.2% of the world, but it has won more than 20% of the Nobel Prize. In the process of communication, when talking about the difference between the Jewish people and the education in China today, I said that there is a story circulating in China: after China students go home, parents usually ask "What questions did the teacher ask you today"; When Jewish students go home, parents will ask, "What questions did you ask the teacher today?" . I asked him, is that right? Principal Benson said that not only that, Jewish parents would ask, "What questions did you ask the teacher that didn't answer?" Being brave and good at questioning is a secret of Jewish culture and the most important factor for the Jewish nation to maintain great creativity and vitality. Students, you are creators of the future. Only by daring to question and discover the limitations of predecessors can we form the habit of critical thinking, form a cognition and judgment on the nature of the world, expand the rational spirit and shape an independent personality. Only by breaking the tradition and daring to challenge the authoritative ideas and theories can we stimulate new ideas, create new paradigms, establish new theories and promote the continuous progress of human civilization.
Students, the baton of challenge and transcendence has now reached your. I hope that after four years of study, you will take away not only the knowledge and methods taught by the teacher, but also more unknown problems. I wish you learn to criticize in reflection, grow up in setbacks, win the future in challenges, and spend your youth in the beautiful Tsinghua campus!