我在大学里的生活(my life in university)
everyone, every high school student is looking forward to life in university. it seems that if you get into university, whichever one it is, you will surely lead a free and exciting life. i was one among this "everyone". but after i stepped onto the grounds of peking university, i began to realize that the atmosphere here is far from "throwing the damned homework behind!", on the contrary, competition is so fierce that one has to work as hard as in high school.
that was what my life was like as a freshman. but things began to change after a year. i felt that now i should have a different life, not the same one as in high school. life depends on one's own choices, so i decided to do something besides studying.
therefore, last term, i applied for a volunteer job in the museum. the capital museum was short of guides for a special exhibition in which hundreds of wonderful items from british museums would be on show. they needed english speaking guides, and as i am an english major, and i am a nearly fluent speaker. so it was not difficult for me to get "employed"… after several weeks' preparation, that is. 43 pages of scripts in both chinese and english to memorize, i went to work. you can hardly imagine my nervousness when i faced the inquiring visitors. some of them were so hard to please that i almost felt humiliated. however, you know, you cannot always be your parents' baby, you cannot always be your teachers' favorite, and you will have to serve others in the future. what i can do is to perfect myself and leave no room for reproach. i am quite proud of this job even now.