亲爱的老师们、同学们：
大家好！
首先衷心祝贺大家成为初中生，迈出了自己成长的一步。九月的校园金风习习，新学期金灿灿的笑容。我们走进了充满喜悦和美好憧憬的大理新校区。大理是一个优秀的大家庭，这里有敬业的老师和兄弟姐妹。我很荣幸今天站在这里发言。
回头看看身后长长的脚印，感叹时间过得真快，仿佛昨天才踏进初中的校门，好奇地在校园里跑来跑去。今天，我开始奔向另一个梦想。三年来，点点滴滴的感受，或喜或悲，或喜或悲，涌上心头。无助时学生的热情支持，不知所措时老师的指导，孤独时朋友的持续关怀。开夜车时眼睛睁不开，运动会上体力透支时的倔强，为了维护班级和学校的荣誉不知疲倦时的汗水。初中三年，我快乐的走着，过着充实美好的生活。我流泪了，但最后还是笑了。我走过荆棘，却闻到千里芬芳。
为了大家的初中生活多一些收获，少走一些弯路，我想和一下我的初中生活经验。
首先，在初中新的起点上，要有努力的决心。也许你怀着远大的志向来到新学校，希望展现自己的风采；也许你小学时成绩一般，入学成绩比别人低，但你不能盲目地得出结论说你不行，放弃自己，因为你的成绩只代表过去，不能证明现在和未来。新的竞争才刚刚开始，谁胜谁负就看现在了。大家一起进入初中，都是站在同一起跑线上。小学是否优秀，已经成为过去。过高或过低的自我都会困住进步的步伐。面对新的生活，我们需要鼓起勇气，奋力向前。
其次，初中是打知识基础的时期。初中和小学相比，科目多，内容多，难度大，要求高。我的学习经验是：
第一点也是最重要的一点是课堂效率。上课的时候最好把老师说的话都听进去，没关系的时候稍微放松一下心态。学生的笔记不一定只是老师在黑板上写的。学生可以准备几支不同颜色的笔，根据重要程度对知识点进行分类。当老师说得太快时，他们应该相应地调整。他们乱涂乱画或者用符号都没关系，自己看懂就行。
第二点是准备修改版：修改版的作用是提取作业中的错题，只要对做题有用的信息都留下。其次，写下正确的步骤，然后思考自己为什么做错了。可以在旁边写个纸条，防止以后再犯。最后，你要写一个，如果以后遇到这样的问题，你该怎么办。
学习方法灵活多样，因人而异。能够不断完善自己的学习方法，是自己学习能力不断提升的表现。但我认为，抛开一切，学习最根本的要领是：勤奋+毅力。如果做不到这一点，那么所有的学习方法和技巧都将一无是处。“勤学苦练”、“勤学能补不足”、“勤学能出人才”无疑反复强调了勤奋二字。世界上有两种资质不同的生物可以爬上金字塔。一个是可以自由翱翔的雄鹰，一个是只能缓慢移动的蜗牛。无论是天赋异禀的雄鹰，还是平庸的蜗牛，它们都能登上塔尖，俯视千里。"学习是从苦涩的根中长出的甜美果实。"不是天赋超群，而是别人很多倍的努力。也许你没有雄鹰翱翔的资格，但你可以培养蜗牛的毅力，不达目的不罢休。学习没有捷径，没有顺风行驶的小船，只有撑起勤奋的风帆，才能驶向知识的海洋。
最后，我想说的是，学会适应，学会沟通。刚到这里的时候，也许你一个熟人都没有。你会觉得孤立无援，但是仔细想想。我们不都一样吗？我们都没有朋友，渴望交朋友。你可以主动，大胆的和同学说话，热情的为班级做事，比如问同学的名字，然后把你介绍给他。学生缺什么可以借给他们；老师要发新书，积极帮忙；如果值班表还没安排，主动清理。无形中你会和同学老师“混”在一起，越来越融入这个新的群体。朋友多了，陌生感自然会逐渐消失。
生活是肥沃的土壤。种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆：播种一种心态，收获一种想法；播种一个想法，收获一个行动；播种一个行动，收获一种习惯；播种一种习惯，收获一种命运。好的习惯，好的作业习惯，好的纪律习惯，好的听力习惯，好的自学习惯，这些都会为我们以后的中学打下基础。从现在开始选择，让好习惯成就我们的未来。
谢谢大家！我的演讲结束了！
诸位同学，
大家好!几天前，咱们学院给我打电话，请我作为教师代表，在20xx级新生入学仪式上讲话。既然是代表，我想我得讲点作为教育工作者，对于学生共通的期望。反复交代，期望同学们坚持梦想，希望大家能够在大学校园中保持积极向上的态度。因此，我在这里也谈一点自己对于“理想”的理解。关于这个话题，或许大家都有自己的答案。比如，我有音乐梦想、喜欢唱歌，那么我去参加选秀，站在镁光灯下，大家都为我喝彩，这就实现梦想?或者，我有文学梦想、喜欢写作，那么我去“起点”、去“晋江”发表“玛丽苏、霸道总裁文”，猛赚点击率，登上排行榜，这是实现梦想?我看到有人笑，为什么呢?这是不是意味着在大家心目中，关于“梦想”的表述不应该如此，而是应该有别的内涵?
差不多一周前，我与学院的几位老师参加了20xx级研究生的入学见面会，各位老师分别就专业精神、学习的态度和方法等方面，给你们的研究生同级生许多建议。我们的老院长张保宁老师，则特别强调和补充了一点，那就是“修身养性”，希望大家在学习专业知识的同时，严于律己，保持自身的道德纯洁性，拥有更高的社会责任感。只有这样，才能成为真正的“人才”。我对此深以为意。
中文系一直就有“直面人生”以及“以梦为马”的传统，正因此，我们中国语言文学学院除了给大家的大学生涯提供非常好的专业平台之外，还从各个方面给大家的“理想”提供栖息之所。我们有《文苑》与大家共筑文学梦，有“诗文化论坛”从广义的“诗”来启迪大家的“诗心”，还有著名诗人伊沙(吴文建)老师开设的写作课，有倾注青春梦想的原创话剧展演活动，也有立志“读好书、做实事”、强调“读诗、读史、读时”通识阅读的“秦北书社”……这一切共同指向教育的核心目标，就是培养健全的人才。
我们有那么多关于何谓“人才”的古训、名言以及著作，今天，与其我来发表个人感言，不如引用经典，来给在座的各位新的人生阶段一份寄语。在这里，给大家分享晚清思想家龚自珍的《乙丙之际箸议第九》，我想说的话，尽在其中。篇目大家可能陌生，但龚自珍这个名字大家一定知道，他的《已亥杂诗》大家都能背出一句“我劝天公重抖擞，不拘一格降人才”，还有《病梅馆记》，不知道大家的中学课本里是否还收录吗?龚自珍，生于18世纪末期，1792年到1841年，活了不到五十岁，即便如此，他还是留下了八百多首诗作、三百多篇文章。龚自珍所处的时代正是后来主导洋务运动的李鸿章所谓的“三千年未有之大变局”的前夕。“乙丙之际”是指清嘉庆二十年乙亥(1815)和二十一年丙子两年间，“箸议”就是论述的意思。这篇文章不仅具有思想深度，文辞也很美，理解起来也不会有太大困难，我就不逐句跟大家解释了，相信以你们的中学语文积累都读得懂。当然，我们学院未来也会有资深老教授与校级教学名师给大家教授“古代汉语”这门课，大家敬请期待。下面我们一起来读一读龚自珍的文章：
吾闻深于《春秋》者，其论史也，曰：书契以降，世有三等;三等之世，皆观其才。才之差，治世为一等，乱世为一等，衰世别为一等。
衰世者，文类治世，名类治世，声音笑貌类治世。黑白杂而五色可废也，似治世之太素;宫羽淆而五声可铄也，似治世之希声;道路荒而畔岸隳也，似治世之荡荡便便;人心混混而无口过也，似治世之不议。左无才相，右无才史，阃无才将，庠序无才士，陇无才民，廛无才工，衢无才商，抑巷无才偷，市无才驵，薮泽无才盗;则非但鲜君子也，抑小人甚鲜。
当彼其世也，而才士与才民出，则百不才督之，缚之，以至于戮之。戮之非刀、非锯、非水火，文亦戮之，名亦戮之，声音笑貌亦戮之。戮之权不告于君，不告于大夫，不宣于司市，君大夫亦不任受。其法亦不及于要领，徒戮其心，戮其能忧心、能愤心、能思虑心、能作为心、能有廉耻心、能无渣滓心。又非一日而戮之，乃以渐，或三岁而戮之，十年而戮之，百年而戮之。才者自度将见戮，则蚤夜号以求治;求治而不得，悖悍者则蚤夜号以求乱。夫悖且悍，且睊然眮然以思世之一便己，才不可问矣。向之伦，聒有辞矣。然而起视其世，乱亦竟不远矣。
(是故智者受三千年史氏之书，则能以良史之忧忧天下。忧不才而庸，如其忧才而悖;忧不才而众怜，如其忧才而众畏。履霜之屩，寒于坚冰;未雨之鸟，戚于飘摇;痹痨之疾，殆于痈疽;将萎之华，惨于槁木。三代神圣，不忍薄谲士勇夫，而厚豢驽羸，探世变也，圣之至也。)
原文有四段，这里只给大家朗诵其中三段。定庵先生在乙丙之际对于“衰世”的担忧，一个核心问题就是没有“才”，或者“才”被“不才”所戮。那么，什么是才?龚自珍已经说得很清楚了，那就是要有“能忧心、能愤心、能思虑心、能作为心、能有廉耻心、能无渣滓心”。只有这样，我们的个人奋斗和我们的时代，才能够共同走向更好的未来。
最后，我想以大家在文学理论当中即将学习到的一位理论家艾布拉姆斯的著作为题，将我们在大学中所要获取的能力或者素养比喻为“镜与灯”，理论家的原意是文学要再现客观现实、或表现主观的内心世界。这里我做一个引申，希望我们每一个人都能直面现实，认识我们的时代，并且心中常怀一盏明灯，照亮未来的旅途。希望在一个消费至上、娱乐至死的“小时代”里，重铸我们的时代精神，“直面人生”、“以梦为马”。
谢谢大家!
“Who Will Tell Your Story?”
May 24, 20xx
Greetings, Class of 20xx.
And so it is here—the week of your Commencement. The days of miracle and wonder when your theses are written, classes have ended, and you still have free HBO. And so it may seem strange to be gathered here today, as we pause for this ancient and curious custom called the Baccalaureate—but here we are, me in a pulpit and you in pews, dressed for a sermon in which I am to impart the sober wisdom of age to the semi-sober impatience of youth. Now, it is a daunting task. Especially since over the course of four years I have succeeded in disconcerting people on all sides of the many issues that you will soon be discussing with parents and grandparents over dinner—so in addition to a speech, for handy reference I’ve created a Placemat for Commencement, filled with useful phrases. Such as, “It’s ‘final club,’ without an ‘s.’”
Now, I am truly privileged today, for you are an extraordinary group. Your 80 countries of origin do not begin to describe you.
You may remember the day when we escaped the rain at your Freshman Convocation, and you heard from me and a phalanx of elders in dark robes: Connect, we said, make Harvard part of your narrative. Take risks, we told you. Don’t always listen to us.
And for four years you have distinguished yourselves with dazzling variety: In what may be Harvard’s most divergent dozen, you produced six Rhodes Scholars, including one who broke the world record for standing on a “Swiss” exercise ball, plus six athletes invited to the National Football League to play ball, players whose interests range from the ministry to curing infectious diseases.
You were good at long distances: You probed the atmosphere of an exoplanet; researched antibiotic use on a pig farm in Denmark; and you created a pilot program that cut shuttle times from the Quad by half.
You experienced old traditions: The mumps. A class color, orange. And the time-honored Lampoon theft of the Crimson president’s chair—this time transporting it across state lines to Manhattan’s Trump Tower, for a staged photo op with a then dark-horse presidential candidate.
You found your way: on campus, through a maze of renovations and swing housing; onstage, doing stand-up comedy on NBC, dancing in Bogota, and mounting Black Magic at the Loeb; through the halls of business and finance, running an intercollegiate investment fund; and exposing a privacy issue with ’s Messenger app.
You won, with style and grace: as you captured the first national trophy for Harvard Mock Trial—by being funnier than Yale; and then you shellacked the Bulldogs in The Game for—yes—the 9th straight year; you produced the first Ivy “three-peats” in football and women’s track; and brought home the first Ivy crown in women’s rugby—how “Fierce and Beautiful” was that!
And, of course, all this was powered by HUDS, since 20xx, powered with ceaseless servings of swai.
And you were just plain good: You wrote prize-winning theses on sea level change, a water crisis in Detroit; you engineered a better barbecue smoker—and tested it in a blizzard; you joined the fight to end malaria; and earned the award for best hockey player in the NCAA for strength of character as well as skill; you became well connected—to Alzheimer’s patients, to kids in Kenya, to homeless youth; and, as the inaugural class of Ed School Teacher Fellows, 20 of you are preparing to help high-need students rise.
And I understand you even rested with ambition, as you tried to “Netflix and chill.”
You made it all look easy—all while facing blows to the spirit that have tempered and tested you. You arrived just after a breach of academic trust that, by your senior year, produced the first honor code in Harvard’s history, events that raised hard questions for all of us: What is success? What is integrity? To whom, or what, are we accountable?
When a hurricane prompted the first Harvard closing in 34 years, you rallied with generosity and goodwill—and did so again when we closed for snowstorm Nemo—the fifth largest in Boston history. And that was just a warm up, so to speak, for the Winter of Our Misery—the worst in Boston history—when you sledded the slopes of Widener in a kayak.
And when the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, in just your second semester, we considered still larger questions: Who are we? What matters most? What do we owe to one another? You told me that you became Bostonians that day, bonded to a city beyond Harvard Square, and to each other during the manhunt and lockdown, when the University closed for an unprecedented third time in 6 months.
Who can forget the images—of the mayhem, of the people who ran, not for safety, buttoward the danger, into the chaos? The Army veteran, who smelled cordite, and expecting more bombs, saved a college student’s life; the man in the cowboy hat, who ripped away fencing in order to reach the most injured. And who can forget the moment when Red Sox first baseman David Ortiz stood in the center of Fenway Park and said in eleven words of fellowship and defiance that the FCC chose not to censor, though I will today—“this is our [bleeping] city and nobody[’s] gonna dictate our freedom.”
A few months ago as I was lucky enough to be sitting in a Broadway theater, absorbing the final number of the musical Hamilton, I thought of you, and that fierce spirit of inclusion and self-determination. I watched as Eliza, center stage, sang, “I put myself back in the narrative,” and asked the question in the title of her song, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?,” the spirited summation of a production that, like you, has broken records. Like you, has created a new drama inside a very old one.
Harvard, one might say, is a bastion of opportunity and unimaginable good fortune—for all of us, who find a place, with varying degrees of comfort, at the center of its long and successful narrative. And yet the burden is on us—to locate the discomfort, to act on the restless spirit of that legacy. As I thought about speaking to you here today, it occurred to me how much the question in that final song has framed your time here, and how much it will continue to affect your lives, as college graduates, as Harvard alumni, as citizens and as leaders. Who will tell your story?
You. You will tell your story. That is the point that I want to leave you with today. Telling your own story, a fresh story, full of possibility and a new order of things, is the task of every generation, and the task before you. And that task is exactly what your liberal arts education has prepared you to do, in three vital ways:
First, telling your own story means discovering who you are, and not what others think you should be. It means being mindful of others, but deciding for yourself. It’s easy to tell a tale that others define, the one they expect to hear. A moment ago I sketched your Harvard history. But what did I leave out? One of Harvard’s legendary figures and Reverend Walton’s predecessor, the Reverend Peter Gomes, used to put it this way: “Don’t let anyone finish your sentences for you.” He loved being a paradox, an unpredictable surprise, but always true to himself: a Republican in Cambridge; a gay Baptist preacher; black president of the Pilgrim Society—Afro-Saxon, as he sometimes put it. Playful. Unapologetic. Unbounded by others’ expectations. “My anomalies,” he once said, “make it possible to advance the conversation.”
Advance the conversation. This is my next point. Telling our own stories is not just about us. It is a conversation with others, exploring larger purposes and other worlds and different ways of thinking. Your education is not a bubble. Think of it as an escape hatch, from what Nigerian novelist and former Radcliffe Fellow Chimamanda Adichie calls “The Danger of a Single Story.” She has observed, “[h]ow impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story.” Not because it may be untrue, but because, in her words, “[stories] are incomplete. They make one story become the only story,” even though “[m]any stories matter.” For four years you have learned the rewards of other stories, and the risk of critical misunderstandings when they go unheard—whether those stories emerge from the Office for LGBTQ Life, or the Black Lives Matter movement, or the international conversation on sexual assault—and perhaps most powerfully, from one another. This is precious knowledge. Only by knowing that other stories are possible can we imagine a different future. What will medicine look like in the 21st century? Energy? Migration? How will cities be designed? The question, as one of you wrote in the Crimson, is not “What am [I] going to be,” but “What problem do [I] solve?”
Which brings me to my final point: keep revising. Every story is only a draft. We re-tell even our oldest sagas—whether of Hamilton and the American Revolution or of Harvard itself. The best education prepares you because it is unsettling, an obstacle course that forces us to question and push and reinvent ourselves, and the world, in a new way. Steven Spielberg, who will speak to us on Thursday, has explained the foundation of his powerful storytelling. He says: “Fear is my fuel. I get to the brink of not knowing what to do and that’s when I get my best ideas.”
What is a university but a place where everyone should feel equally sure to be unsure? Our best discoveries can start out as mistakes. As Herbie Hancock told us, his mentor jazz legend Miles Davis, said there is no playing a “wrong” note, only a surprising one, whose meaning depends on whatever you play next.
In the evolving universe of profiles and hashtags and selfies, it seems no accident that you are the class of Snapchat—a platform that took hold when you were freshmen and developed with you, from showing “snaps” to telling and sharing “stories”—stories that vanish every day, to be replaced by new stories, free of “likes” or “followers.” An app that, in the words of a founder, “isn’t about capturing … what[’s] pretty or perfect … but … creates a space to … communicat[e] with the full range of human emotion.”
And so for four years you have been learning to re-tell things: finding your voices, putting yourself in a narrative, whether that was demanding action against climate change, discovering that you love statistics, or creating the powerful message of “I, Too, Am Harvard.” You have seen things re-told. Even Harvard’s story. Last month one of my heroes, Congressman John Lewis, came to Harvard Yard to unveil a plaque on Wadsworth House, documenting the presence of four enslaved individuals who lived in the households of two Harvard presidents. John Lewis said, “We try to forget but the voices of generations have been calling us to remember.” Titus, Venus, Bilhah and Juba—their lives change our story. After three centuries, they have a voice. They, too, are Harvard.
Telling a new story isn’t easy. It can take courage, and resolve. It often means leaving the safe path for the unknown, compelled, as John Lewis put it, to “disturb the order of things.” And during your years here you have learned to make, as he urged, “good trouble, necessary trouble.”
For years I have been telling students: Find what you love. Do what matters to you. It might be physics or neuroscience, or filmmaking or finance. But don’t settle for Plot B, the safe story, the expected story, until you have tried Plot A, even if it might require a miracle. I call this the Parking Space Theory of Life. Don’t park 10 blocks away from your destination because you are afraid you won’t find a closer space. Don’t miss your spot—Don’t throw away your shot. Go to where you think you want to be. You can always circle back to where you have to be. This can require patience and determination. Steven Spielberg was, in fact, late to class his first day as a student at California State University, because, as he put it, “I had to park so far away.” He went on to sneak onto movie sets, no matter how many times he got thrown off.
“You shouldn't dream your film,” he has said, “you should make it!”
Perhaps this is the new Jurassic Parking Space Theory of Life—don’t just tell your story, live it. Your future is not a . It’s an attitude, a way of being that can create a new narrative no one may have thought possible, let alone probable:
Jeremy Lin—Harvard graduate, Asian-American—changed the narrative of professional basketball, still sizzling with “Linsanity” when you arrived as freshmen.
Think about Stephen Hawking, who spoke to us last month through a speech synthesizer. He changed the narrative of the universe, a story about what ultimately will become of all our stories—one he has been revising since he was your age, when he was given three years to live.
And you are already changing the story:
Think of the astrophysics and mythology concentrator who started a mentorship program for women of color to change the narrative of who enters STEM fields, and she wrote a science fiction novel to tell a new research-based story about the galaxy.
Or think of the Second Lieutenant—one of 12 new Harvard officers—who will serve her country in the U.S. Marines, battling not only the enemy, but persistent gender divides. “How will that change,” she says, “unless we start now?”
And think about the pre-med student who found himself literally running away from campus, fleeing in misery, until he suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned back, because he remembered he needed to be at a theater rehearsal where he had stage managing responsibilities. Some 20 productions later, he has a theater directing fellowship for next year, and even his parents, as he puts it, now believe “that I am an artist.”
Value the ballast of custom, the foundations of knowledge, the weight of expectation. They, too, are important. But don’t be afraid to defy them.
And don’t worry, as you feel the tug of these final days together. I am here to tell you that your Harvard story is never done. In 1978, two freshmen watched a screening of the movieLove Story in the Science Center. Three decades later, they met for the first time. And their wedding story appeared last month in The New York Times.
So, congratulations, Class of 20xx. Don’t forget from whence you came. Change the narrative. Rewrite the story. There is no one I would rather trust with that task.
Go well, 20xx.
哈佛校长福斯特演讲中文
人们也许会说哈佛是天堂，充满了各种难以想象的机遇和好运——确实，我们每个人都有幸在她漫长而成功的历史中占有一席之地。但这也对我们提出了要求：我们有责任走出自己的舒适区，寻找属于我们的挑战，践行哈佛奋斗不息的精神。
在我准备今天演讲的时候， 我想到了音乐剧《汉密尔顿》中最后那首歌里的问题：
“谁来讲述你的故事?”
我想这个问题奠定了你们过去四年大学生活的调，也将对你们未来作为哈佛毕业生和校友的生活产生深远的影响，无论是作为公民或是领袖——
谁，来讲述你的故事?
是你，你要来讲述你的故事!
这就是今天我要对你们说的话：讲你自己的故事，一个充满了无限可能性和新秩序的崭新故事，这是每一代人的任务，也是现在摆在你面前的任务。你在哈佛所接受的文理博雅教育，将会用以下三种重要方式，帮助你去完成这项任务。
“听别人的建议，做你自己的决定”
讲述你的故事意味着发现你自己是谁——而不是成为别人认为你的谁。你要参考别人的意见，但要做出自己的决定。讲述一个别人定义好的或别人希望听到的故事，那太容易了。
哈佛的传奇人物之一、可敬的彼得·戈麦斯教授曾说：“不要让任何人替你把话说完。”
戈麦斯教授自己经常“自相矛盾”，令人难以捉摸，但永远忠于他自己：他是一位剑桥市的共和党人(注：在哈佛所在的剑桥市，共和党是少数派);他是一位浸礼会的牧师，但同时是个同性恋(注：天主大多不支持同性恋);他是朝圣者协会的会长，同时又是一位黑人(注：朝圣者协会白人居多)。
他对自己的信仰坚定不移，他不为外人的期望牵挂束缚。他说：“我的不同寻常，让开启新的'对话变为可能。”
“开启与他人的对话，倾听他人的故事”
开启新的对话，这是我的下一个重点。讲述我们自己的故事并不意味着只关注我们自己。讲故事是与他人对话，借此探寻更远大的目标、探索其他的世界、探究不同的思维方式——你所受的教育不是一个真空的大泡沫。
如果我们只讲述单一的故事，那将是危险的，就像诺大的场地只有一个逃生口，令所有人变得异常脆弱。单一的故事不一定是假的，但它是不完整的。所有的故事都很重要，不能把单一角度的故事变成唯一的故事。
过去四年，你们感受到了倾听他人故事的益处，也体验到了忽略他人故事所带来的危险。只有意识到，世界上充满了各种各样的故事，我们才能想象一个不一样的未来。21世纪的医疗是什么样?能源是什么样?移民是什么样?城市将如何设计?面对这些问题，你要问的不是“我会成为什么样的人”，而是
“我能解决什么问题”?
“在不安和不确定中，不断修正你的故事”
这也引出了最后一个重点：不断修正。每个故事其实都只是一个草稿，我们连最古老的传说都会不断拿来重提——不管是汉密尔顿将军的故事、美国战争的史诗、亦或是哈佛自己的历史。
好的教育之所以好，是因为它让你坐立不安，它强迫你不断重新认识我们自己和我们周遭的世界，并不断去改变。
斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格将在毕业典礼上为我们演讲，他就曾经这样解释他创作的石：“恐惧是我的动力。当我濒临走投无路的时候，那也是我遇见最好的想法的时候。”
大学，不正是这样一个让每一个人都接受挑战、让每一个人都产生不确定性的地方吗?
就这样，大学四年间，你都一直在学习重新讲述你的故事：寻找你自己的声音，将自己放入一个故事中——无论是对气候变化采取反抗行动，发现你对统计学的热衷，还是发起了一项有意义的运动，你亲眼目睹故事不断被重新讲述。
“不要妥协，直奔你的目标”
这些年，我一直在告诉大家：
追随你所爱!
去从事你真正关心的事业吧，无论是物理还是神经科学，无论是金融还是电影制片。如果你想好了目的地，就直接往那里去吧。这就是我的“停车位理论”：不要因为觉得肯定没有停车位了，就把车停在距离目的地10个街区远的地方。直接去你想去的地方，如果车位已满，你总可以再绕回来。
所以在这里，我想祝贺你们，20xx届的哈佛毕业生们。别忘了你们来自何处，不断改变你的故事，不断重写你的故事。我相信这项任务除了你们自己，谁也无法替你们完成!
尊敬的院领导、老师们，亲爱的同学们：
大家好！
真的非常荣幸能在这里代表新生发言，也十分感谢院领导给我这项殊荣。
迎着清爽的秋风，吻着醉人的菊香，在这美丽的日子李，我从千里之外来到了以孝闻名的某，跨进了梦寐以求的大学，开始了我的梦想旅程。
当我踏进这幽美的校园时，看到老师、学长学姐们热情的手臂，温暖的笑容，听到新同学们的欢歌笑语和亲如弟兄姐妹般的问候，让我周身的血液开始沸腾，心也跟着飞扬。这是为什么呢？因为这里就是我人生的一个最最重要的转折点，一个让我圆梦的地方！所以我们不必比较条件的优劣，面积的大小，既然来到了这美丽的春晖湖畔，那就是缘分，那就是上天给我们机会去拼搏自己的梦想，我们当为之珍惜。
大学生活是多姿多彩的，但也需要我们把握和深入体会。开朗却不失，野性却不失优雅，自信却不自负，张扬却不狂妄，是我追求的性格。简单冲动、意志不坚定、思想不成熟，是我要克服的弱点。人生豪迈，年轻没有失败是我对青春的誓言。青春是我们最宝贵的财富，是我们胆大妄为的资本，是我们异想天开的来源。要想充分挖掘青春的宝藏，那就要好好学习，充实自己。在工作中学习，在教室里学习，在失败中学习，在别人身上学习。
既然我们选择了xx学院，就应该脚踏实地、认真地学习。有人在网络中麻醉自己，逃避现实，填补内心的空虚，但离开网络，空虚依旧，现状并没有改变。真正能解救你的人只有你自己，药方是学会接受，没有办法改变世界，那就改变自己吧。珍惜你现在所拥有的，最大限度的利用学校的资源，不要让它掠夺你大把的青春，留给你一个大大的遗憾。要知道，大学给你的价值是你自己创造的。当然了，漫漫的大学生活也会有许多意想不到的困难和挫折。但是我们必须始终坚持我们的目标，为梦想为之不懈奋斗。
1、大浪淘沙，经得过风浪考验的才是成动者：河蚌育珠，担得起艰难困苦的才是胜利者：万里长征，挺得住千山万水跋涉的才是开拓者：挥泪洒汗，抵得住烈日暴晒与意志考验的才是新时代的大学生。我们，这样一群20岁的风华少年用坚强和忍耐经历了高考的洗礼，情感的折磨，现在等着我们的是大学第一课军训。我们城建学院的新生一定会用最正的姿态最饱满的精神面貌迎接首长和校领导的检阅。
2、学会认知，不仅要重视分类地系统知识的收获，而且要学会掌握认知的手段。学会认知，应该有意识地培养思维能力，不仅要深入学习本专业本学科，而且要广泛涉猎其他领域。在边缘，在交叉点，有着广阔的探索空间。
3、学会做事，就是要理解现代社会越来越重视能力而不是资历。不仅要有专业知识，更应该具备学会适时应用专业知识的能力。学会做事，不仅要在毕业后具备从事专业工作的能力，也应该努力加强锻炼自己的创新能力。学会做事，还要求我们培养协作能力，交际能力和管理能力。
4、学会做人，就是要使个人素质日臻完善，让品格丰富多彩，使自己本人无论在社会、在学校扮演不同角色时都成为优秀地一员，来承担各种责任。学会做人，就是要深入了解人类地多样性，学会熟悉本人，发现他人，就是要理解不同民族，不同地域有着不同的地方文化和习俗。
同学们，人之一生，不如意者十有。重要的是我们自己对自我的认识，对环境的理解。环境不能决定我们的命运，相反，我们自己对环境的态度，才真正决定我们的成功与失败。万事需要一种积极向上的状态。面对生活中的逆境，请不要退缩！沮丧时，让我们引亢高歌；悲伤时，让我们开怀大笑；自卑时，让我们换上新装；恐惧时，让我们团结起来，勇往直前！
人的一生就是奋斗的一生！《满江红》里说得好莫等闲，白了少年头，空悲切！过去的努力，我们已经积淀了一定的知识和能力，只要勇敢冲刺，我们就能赢得胜利，赢得未来！我亲爱的同学们、朋友们，宝剑锋从磨砺出，梅花香自苦寒来。书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。从现在这一刻起，插上你理想的翅膀，换一种心情，投入到全新的学习生活中去。我想，四年大学生活必然会精彩纷呈，一定会变得充实、无悔且精彩！
最后，祝愿同学们学业有成，前程似锦！
祝愿领导老师身体健康，心想事成！
祝愿我们的学院明天更加灿烂辉煌！
谢谢大家！
尊敬的各位领导、老师、亲爱的同学们：
大家好！
我是xx大学环境学院的教师李轶。首先请允许我代表xx大学全体教师对20——级本科新同学表示最诚挚的祝贺和最热烈的欢迎！
河润万物，海纳百川。河海大学因水而生，顺水而长，缘水而为，百年的发展历程和水紧密相关。我们的人生也如水一般轻灵、坚韧而又不断发展变化。少年如溪，流水潺潺，充满了无限的追求和希望；青年如河，激昂豪迈，展现出青春的活跃与张扬；中年如湖，静水流深，积蓄着丰富的知识和智慧；老年如海，波澜壮阔，沉淀出一生的豁达与从容。同学们刚刚度过中学阶段，此时的你们，正如勇往直前的溪流，即将汇入江河，开始人生中最具活力，最具朝气的青年阶段。那么，如何才能成长为汹涌澎湃的滔滔江河？今天我想借这个机会，为大家在今后的学习提几点建议。
第一，要树立远大的目标。正如溪流怀着奔流到海的理想，不断向前，永不停歇，拥有目标的溪流是充满活力的，而没有目标的水被称之为“死水”。思想决定命运，目标决定通往成功的旅程。没有远大的目标，没有为理想奋斗的精神，你的视野就会永远局限在狭小的世界，永远不能体会大海的壮美辽阔。高考之前，同学们都渴望取得优异的成绩，升入理想的大学，如今，你们实现了这一目标，来到河海大学，需要在新的阶段树立全新的、长远的目标，并进行客观的自我评估，合理规划未来的发展。现阶段首先要做的是适应大学的学习和生活，调整心态，顺利完成角色的转变。希望你们能够用目标和规划时刻鞭策和指引着自己，向着大海的方向、梦想的方向不断前行。
第二，要掌握解决问题的方法。水唯善下方成海，溪流在通往大海的道路上，必然会遇到岩石、险滩，但溪流遇到障碍总是能克服各种困难，曲折而蜿蜒的前行，没有旁观，没有喝彩，却从不回头，永不停歇，这就是溪流的精神和使命。同样，大学阶段的学习不可能是一马平川的，会有很多的困难和挫折，我们遇到问题，绝不能气馁，要不断学习和积累，意识到大学和中学教育的差异性，要学会顺势而为，懂得变通，以便更好地适应新的环境。当你克服了种种困难，掌握了大学的学习技巧，探索出适合自己的学习方法，便能顺流直下，让大学学习真正充实而高效，直到有一天你会越来越强大，那时的你才能如大海般波澜壮阔，令人仰望。
第三，要努力成为复合型人才。纵观中国历史，中华民族的发展几乎是一部治水史，“治水”自古以来就对我国兴邦都具有重要意义。河流蜿蜒迂回，是一个包括水、泥沙、动植物、微生物和其他非生物成分的复杂生态系统。在传统水利的基础上，当代“治水”需要进一步加强水安全、水环境、水生态等方面的工作，需要各部门通力合作的`河长制，更需要水利、土木、环境、生态、经管等多学科交叉的复合性人才。同学们在学习过程中，除了掌握自己的专业，还要广泛了解其他相关学科的知识，学习不能仅仅局限于课本，更要联系实际，在社会实践和专业实践中广泛接触社会，了解社会需求；并积极开展创新实践和课外科技竞赛，培养创新能力，努力向复合型人才的目标前进。
同学们，你们已正式成为河海大学的一员，成为一名光荣的“水之子”，希望你们能够秉承“我饮河海一滴水，我献祖国一生情”的学子情怀，为我国水利及相关事业的发展奉献自己的力量，相信你们终将成为辽阔大海中的澎湃波浪，终将书写出属于自己的人生篇章！
谢谢大家！
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