Whatever life may have in store for you each of you has a grand, lifelong project and that is the development of yourself as a human being
不管人生中等著你的是什么 你們每個人都有一個宏偉的終生項目 就是你自己作為人的發展過程
Your family and your friends and your time at Princeton have given you a good start What will you do with it?
你的親朋好友以及你在普林斯頓接受的教育 為你開了一個好頭 你將如何利用它
Will you keep learning and thinking hard and critically about the most important questions? Will you become an emotionally stronger person
你是否愿意不斷學習 努力并批判性地思考 各種最重要的問題 你是否愿意成為情感上更強大的人
More generous, more loving, more ethical? Will you involve yourself actively and constructively in the world? Many things will happen in your lives, pleasant and not so pleasant
更慷慨 更有愛心 更有道德 你是否愿意積極并建設性地投身于這個世界 你的人生中會發生很多事 有快樂的 有不快樂的
But, paraphrasing a Woodrow Wilson School adage from the time I was here "Wherever you go, there you are?" If you are not happy with yourself
不過我要轉述我就讀伍德羅.威爾遜學院時這里的一句格言 "人在何處 心就在何處" 如果你不為自己感到快樂
Even the loftiest achievements is not going to bring you much satisfaction Number 3 The concept of success leads me to consider
就算最偉大的成就也無法為你帶來滿足 三 成功這一概念讓我開始思考
So-called meritocracies and their implications We have been taught that meritocratic institutions and societies are fair Putting aside the reality that no system, including our own
所謂的精英體系及其含義 總有人告訴我們 精英制度和精英社會是公平的 姑且不說沒有哪個國家 包括我們美國