Blog #2 A Hard Road or A Easy Road

Choosing a Hard Road or a Easy Road?

Being a student, choosing a hard road or a easy road in your study can definately determine what kinds of life or way you are going to survive in your future. Making a decision for the easy road is not so convenient as what you might imagine. Also for the hard word, it is not a dreadful hell that you might think, and the hard work does not mean success. Have you ever counted in one day how many hours you have wasted at loss ends? You may see some homeless beggers on the street, everyone knows the reason why they do this. In China, most parents use this example to educate their children and say "if you do not study hard, you will get into the sanme situation with them." Whatever, everyone has rights to decide what to choose. For me, I would like to choose the hard work. At this time, I make studying a matter of conscience through the hard work. The hard work gives me more pressure to push me ahead.

Before coming to the United States, I got the conditional acceptance and scholarship for the university of iowa. The condition is to take one year iowa intensive English program. When i came to here,I consoled myself with the reason that taking a year full-time English class can improve my difficent English. I attend the class on time every day, but i did not completed assignments teachers gave to me on the strain. At the beginning of the first semester, I got 517 on the practice TOEFL, so i thought after studying this semester, I could get the score higher than 530 which was the condition if I wanted to enter the university without taking more practice on the TOEFL test online. Unfortunately, the outcome did not occur as what i imagined Actually, the score was 527 which was so close. Two of my friends passed the test. At that time, i did really feel guilty, disappointment and regret. I sweared to myself that i would work harder to pass the English Program. Each week i compeled myself to remeber at least 100 new words and to do at least one practice TOEFL test. Keeping doing this for a whole semester for me really a hard work. Finally, I passed it and got 547. Now, i enter the university. There must be more difficuly for me to face, so working hard is necessary with the self-control.