Professor Zhang Dongju: How to open your graduate study and life?

Dear teachers, dear classmates:

good morning guys!

I am Zhang Dongju, a teacher of the School of Resources and Environment. In 2004, he graduated from Shandong University undergraduate and came to Lanzhou University to study for a master's and doctorate degree. He graduated from school in 2010 and studied here for 18 years. He has been engaged in environmental archeology research. Essence

First of all, all the teachers of Lanzhou University welcomed all new students! Congratulations to everyone through unremitting efforts to enter Lanzhou University and enter a new stage of learning! At the same time, I would like to thank the school for giving me this opportunity to give me a chance to talk to my new classmates: How to start the study and life of graduate students?

From the time I received this task, I have been remembering, how did my graduate stage come from and what experience? What kind of detours have you taken? Starting from my own feelings today, I will talk to you about the three most important aspects I think. Personal opinions are for your reference only.

Establish a big ideal, don't forget your original intention

The ideal is a topic that teachers and parents often discuss with you from elementary school or even kindergarten. Now, you have entered the graduate stage, and I still want to discuss the topic of ideals with you.

Today, when you come to Lanzhou University, you will start a new study and life. Students should be a step closer to their ideals. Perhaps, some classmates have said that their ideals are far from reality. For example, when you were a child, your ideal was to be an astronaut, but now he is reading chemistry, creatures, or other majors. However, I don't think so, the ideal reason for ideals is ideal, it is high, not specific. Be a astronaut and have the opportunity to travel mysterious space. Space is the research field of astronauts, that is, you want to be a person who can travel in your own research field. In fact, even if you learn chemistry and students, you may not be able to go to space. You see that the current astronauts need biological experiments in space. Therefore, no matter what major you learn now, you have started the study at the graduate stage. I think that it means that you have a step closer to your ideals.

I believe that every classmate sitting here is excellent and ideal. Many people say that in the process of struggling for the ideals, they may lose their direction and lose themselves. How can they avoid this? Then return to the original intention. Academician Li Jijun, our geography, used dreams as Ma Ta Glacier, always carrying the dream of "riding a white horse roaming in the deep mountains of Qilian Mountains for the motherland"; I want to let my footprints be printed on any corner of the earth ". The ideal and original intention is the source of motivation. Only if you have enough ideals enough, you can never forget your original intention, can you have enough power to overcome many difficulties in learning and life, do not deviate from the direction of advance, and continue to move forward. It seems like you have been through a long road of thorns, and finally come to a journey closer to the ideal. Because of closer to the ideal, there will be more challenges you encounter in this journey. The difficulties you face will be greater, and when you overcome challenges and difficulties, the harvesting flowers and applause will inevitably be more. If you want to successfully reach the other side of the ideal, you need to have a stronger ideal, more tough action, and ultimately achieve a more beautiful transformation.

Academician Li Jijun in his later years due to the inconvenience of right -handed action, he wrote this couplet with his left hand

Keep scientific research enthusiasm and courage to challenge

In a broad sense, graduate students are scientific researchers. The graduate stage is a learning stage that focuses on a study and is committed to solving a scientific issue. At the graduate stage, the mentor will ask you to find scientific issues and find a way to solve scientific problems. Regardless of the size of scientific issues, as long as there is innovation, it is meaningful. To innovate, we must have curiosity and keep scientific research and curiosity. Not only can you always keep you enthusiasm for scientific research, but also make you passion for life.

You will find that in the next study, less and less textbooks have been replaced with a large number of professional documents. This is a transformation of a real thinking model and learning method. When you can maintain a strong enough curiosity, you will take the initiative to discover the problem. Don't underestimate this. In the stage of scientific research, scientific research has gradually evolved into the stage of industrialization output. To some extent, finding problems is more important than solving problems. Because only this can you have an independent thinking spirit, no dependence, not blindly obey, no matter what type of work you are engaged in, this spirit of independent thinking will benefit you for life.

Scientific research is a process of being ready to accept challenges at any time. It needs concentration and concentration, active and jumping brain cells, and firm and firm pace. To be able to sit on the cold bench, you must be suffering. If you go forward, you ca n’t avoid difficulties. Do n’t give up lightly. If you persist for a while, you may be closer to success. There is another village in Liu Da Hua Ming, not everywhere. Many times you just stick to one more step than others, and this step is not a relaxed step. It is a step to decide to lose or lose.

Talking about myself, I am from undergraduate archeology to graduate students in geography, and engaged in cross -disciplinary discipline -environmental archeology research. In addition to the big change of thinking mode, I still have a lot of wild work to do. When I went to a graduate student, my research direction was only doing it alone. The instructor arranged for me to start with the summer vacation before graduate students, which is equivalent to this summer vacation you just passed. For two weeks, it is more than a month long. Every time I am a girl, in addition to the driver, I am a Chinese student. I need to be responsible for all the itinerary arrangements in the wild, including field work, local coordination, accommodation and translation of translation Essence Aside from my undergraduate graduation, there is no field experience, and the English alone is not good. I also have to deal with local units and villagers. But are you afraid of useful? Obviously useless, I want to learn, I have to accept challenges. Therefore, I decided to stiff my head, and I tried my best to regret it. Afterwards, I found that the difficulties were not as big as I saw before, all of which were paper tigers, and I was not as fragile as I originally thought. I also unlocked new skills and has a sense of accomplishment. At the same time, I also suggested that students continue to broaden their horizons, do not limit myself in a small direction at the student stage, and expose the knowledge and research on the knowledge and research of related disciplines or other disciplines. The road is wider and wider.

Professor Zhang Dongju and scientific research team

Ensure physical and mental health, improve yourself

While obtaining progress in scientific research, we must also be able to maintain your health. Chairman Mao said that the body is the capital of the revolution, and I take it seriously. Keep your physical and mental health, so you can concentrate on learning and live happily. The graduate stage is a special stage. This stage requires you to have the ability to think independently, innovate, and the pressure you face will be greater, because age will increase, sometimes there will be emotional, family pressure, and so on. Therefore, at this stage, everyone needs to pay more attention to their mental health, learn to adjust, learn to sort out, learn to release pressure, and learn to accept themselves. The problems in learning should communicate with the mentor in time; the problems in life should find ways to solve themselves and communicate more with the teachers, classmates, friends and family members. In actual operation, I suggest that you have a sports hobby, insist on planning, and regularly exercise. Exercise can not only exercise the body, but also help release stress Essence

When we were young, we felt that we were unique and different fireworks, but most people slowly found that we were just an ordinary person. Some people say that a person's mature sign is to accept his ordinaryness. I think this sentence is also applicable to scientific research. Scientific research is not tall in practice, and there are even some boring. When your systematic reading, discovering and determining the topic selection of your interest, repeated standardization experimental steps, writing academic papers and repeatedly modified, until the final article It is officially published, this is just a job in your scientific research career. Even in your graduate career, you will encounter some tasks that cannot be published because of all aspects, and you can only give up temporarily. At this time you will be frustrated, lost, and even doubt whether you are the material. Just like what you encountered in your life, since there is success, there must be failure. In the future, you will definitely encounter bumps in your job. But what I want to say is that no matter what kind of situation you are, you can maintain a normal mind as much as possible, learn to accept rather than negate yourself, digest your negative emotions as soon as possible, and face failure with a more optimistic attitude of life. Essence请你们记住，科研是一条逐渐深入的漫长路径，不要太在乎一城一池的得失，只要你认为这个想法还值得做下去，暂时没有成果可以先放一放，但是请记住它，或许At a certain time in the future, it will bloom glory again.

Finally, I want to say that the graduate stage may be your last time to study. I hope that students will cherish this happy years that can achieve the results as long as they work hard. The Lan University style, which is aggressive, has discovered, created, and made a breakthrough in the future graduate career. In the fierce competition, we will wear thorns, take the wind and waves, and embrace your wonderful life!

Once again, you welcome your new students to come to Lanzhou University, and I wish you a happy life and success! Encounter Teacher's Day the day after tomorrow, I wish teachers and classmates a happy holiday! thanks.

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