港中大（深圳）学生代表赵千帆在2021年度入学典礼上的发言

9月4日上午，香港中文大学（深圳）2021年度入学典礼以线上线下相结合的方式顺利举行。

高中毕业于杭州第二中学，来自经管学院、逸夫书院的大三学生赵千帆作为学生代表在典礼上发言。

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尊敬的各位来宾，亲爱的老师们、同学们、家长们，大家早上好！

我是赵千帆，毕业于杭州第二中学，现在是经管学院和逸夫书院的一名大三学生。我谨代表全体高年级学子，祝贺各位新生踏入激动人心的大学生活新征程!

在起草这份演讲稿的时候，我问自己：在大学生活开始之前，我希望自己能获得哪些建议呢？苦苦思索一番后，我想到了两点。不是什么了不起的大道理，只是两个诚挚的建议，愿与学弟学妹们分享。

第一个建议与“人”有关——请各位抓住每一个机会，与大学的老师们建立联结。大一的某个早上，我正在饭堂吃早餐，突然发现副校长朱世平教授正在我旁边用餐。害羞的我有点不知所措。没想到，朱教授挪了挪座位，主动过来与我交谈。你看，在这个神奇的校园里，每位老师都可以像朋友一样和你交谈。不要害羞。你可以在他们的办公时间尽情提问；可以邀请他们喝杯咖啡，谈论你的人生选择；甚至可以毛遂自荐，成为他们的教学助理或研究助理。

我身边有许多同学，都曾从与老师们的交流中获得了关于学业和职业规划的诚挚建议。他们中的一些人甚至被教授推荐到诺贝尔实验室做研究，或获得了千载难逢的实习机会。无论课堂内外，优秀的老师们总能让你学到很多东西。请抓住每一个机会，与他们“打成一片”。

我的第二个建议与习惯相关——请各位在大学期间养成良好的习惯。俗话说，“习惯形成的桎梏最开始是如此之轻，以至于你毫无察觉。当感觉到它的存在时，你已无法挣脱束缚”。坏习惯可以摧毁一个人，这是我从个人观察中得出的切实感悟。在每一所高校里，你几乎都能找到令人沮丧不已的例子。多少原本前途无限光明的年轻人，正在被坏习惯慢慢侵蚀，最终废然而反。可悲的是，他们根本无法改变自己的习惯——坏习惯的力量非常强大。

坏习惯能够摧毁一个人，好习惯却能成就人，成为让你变得更强大、更快乐的有力武器。这里我想分享一个小故事。两年前，一名年轻人下定决心要培养一个好习惯——定期长跑。起初，举步维艰，因为初入校园的他，仍在努力适应大学沉重的学业负担和全新的大学生活。而跑步，是一件相当累人的事情。然而，这个年轻人坚持了下来。几个月后，他成功地养成了长跑的习惯，越跑，越轻松。在过去两年中，他跑了1000多公里，甚至还完成了一场马拉松。坚持长跑的习惯，让这位年轻人大大提升了耐力和精神韧性， 让他时刻保持充沛的精力，以至于后期得以轻松应对极具挑战性的投资银行实习工作。这个故事绝对真实，因为这个年轻人，正站在你面前发表演讲。

亲爱的学弟学妹们，凭借着良好的习惯，大学许多学子都过上了积极向上的生活，成为了更好的人。今年夏天，他们中的一些人参加了世界各大高校的暑课，并取得了优异的成绩；有些人开始了自己的研究项目，与知名教授并肩作战；还有许多学子拿到了大湾区和北京上海等城市的优秀公司的实习offer。只要有正确的习惯，你也一定可以成为他们中的一员。

以上，便是我的两点拙见，一个是多与老师交朋友，另一个是形成良好的习惯。简简单单，两个小建议而已。希望大家都能拥有一个快乐、光明而闪亮的大学生活!

最后我想用中文再说几句。七十多年前，钱穆先生创办了香港中文大学的前身新亚书院。当时他写下了著名的新亚院歌，其中有这样两句话——“艰险我奋进，困乏我多情。千斤担子两肩挑，趁青春，结队向前行。”今天，七十多年前播下的火种正在中国这所充满活力和创新精神的城市深圳燃烧，香港中文大学（深圳）蒸蒸日上，粤港澳大湾区欣欣向荣，祝愿大家在这样伟大的时代里不负青春韶华，趁青春，结队向前行！谢谢大家！

Speech by Qianfan ZHAO

at InaugurationCeremony 2021

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Distinguished guests, dear teachers, fellow students, and parents, good morning!

My name is ZHAO Qianfan. I graduated from Hangzhou No.2 High School and now I’m a third-year student from SME and Shaw College. On behalf of all senior students, I warmly welcome all of you to celebrate this exciting moment of the first-year students starting their university life!

When I was drafting this speech, I asked myself, what are the suggestions that I wish I knew before starting my university life? Well, here they are, my two sincere suggestions to first-year students. No big deal, just two suggestions.

The first suggestion is about people — Please grab every opportunity to bond with faculty members. When I was a first-year student, one morning I was having breakfast and I suddenly found that the vice president, Professor ZHU Shiping was dining next to me. I was shy and didn’t know what to do. However, Professor ZHU moved his seat and started to talk to me. You see, on this magical campus, every teacher could talk to you like a friend. Don’t be shy. You could drop into their office hours to ask them questions; you could invite them for a coffee chat to talk about your life choices; you could even volunteer to be their teaching assistants or research assistants.

By interacting with our teachers, many of my friends receive sincere advices about their academic and career planning. Some of them are even recommended by professors to do researches in Nobel laboratories or get wonderful internship opportunities. There are a lot you could learn from your great teachers in and outside of the classroom. Just seize every opportunity to mingle with them.

My second suggestion is about habit — please make sure that you have the right habits. As the saying goes, “the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” From my personal observation, I could tell you that bad habits could really destroy a person. In every university in the world, you could find frustrating examples of brilliant young people eroded by bad habits, and the sad truth is that they simply couldn’t change their habits – bad habits are very very powerful.

On the other hand, good habits are the most powerful tool to make you stronger and happier. Here is a little story. Two years ago, a young man decided to foster one good habit - to do long-distance running regularly. At first, things were tough. He had tons of coursework and a brand-new university life to fit into, and running was quite tiring. However, the young man persevered. After several months, he successfully established this habit and running became much easier. He has run over 1,000 kilometers in the past two years and has even completed a marathon. The habit of running gives this young man huge endurance and mental toughness. It also makes him physically stronger and more energetic, so that he could easily cope with his highly challenging investment banking internship. This story is true, because that young man is standing right in front of you giving this speech.

Dear first-year students, good habits have set many CUHK-Shenzhen students into an upper trend and become much better persons. For example, this summer, some of them attended summer schools around the world and achieved excellent grades. Some started their own research projects with renowned professors. Quite a few students have also completed internships at great companies in the Great Bay Area and other cities like Shanghai and Beijing. With right habits in place, you could definitely become one of them as well.

So, these are my two suggestions. One is about making friends with teachers, and the other is about forming good habits. It’s simple as that, just two suggestions. Hope you all have a happy, brilliant, and shining university life!

I would like to conclude my speech by making a few more remarks in Chinese. More than 70 years ago, at a time of extreme adversity, Mr. Ch’ien Mu and other scholars from China founded the New Asia College, the predecessor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. At that time, Ch’ien wrote the famous New Asia College Anthem, and I would like to share a few lines from it. Let's march over life, let's sing when we're tired; Pick the loads unbearable in our youth, let's walk hands in hands. Today, the little spark from seventy years ago has burst a flame in the vibrant and innovative city of Shenzhen. May The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen flourish, may the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area prosper, and may we all live up to our youth in such a great era. Let's move forward hands in hands. Thank you all!

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香港中文大学（深圳）

CUHK-Shenzhen

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