国际学生和美国学生的区别

和Manika在一起的时候发生了许多事情，她是我的advisor,很多生活上的小事我至今都记得。
Manika comes from India, she is now 55 years old.
有一次和Manika聊what's the differences between international students and American students?
She said； American students have never realized how lucky they are, when they get stuff in school, so many free help, information, technology, knowledge, professor's advice, they always think these things are guaranteed, it is so easy to get all these. But Indian and Chinese students come from a place which is in lack of all these. So international students appreciate it and enjoy it. However, American students do not know what a good learning opportunity they have right now, and they just give it away.

今天重新回想这句话，我很惭愧，我觉得自己越来越像那些美国学生了。

刚来美国的时候，非常珍惜光阴，珍惜向导师学习的时光，基本上每天都主动找老师，讨论学习。那时候的代价是基本上没有任何私人时间，个人的性格和脾气也慢慢从外向转为内向。

现在走向了另一个极端，经常去想着放松和娱乐。不小心发现上个月我竟然没有学习，读了57本文艺书籍。我还是应该回到正轨，珍惜学习时光，因为文艺书籍随时可以看，而现在和老师交流，和同学们讨论的机会，错过，便是永远。

仅以此文自勉。