Certificate Craze on Campus

It is quite a common phenomenon that college students are enthusiastic over getting all kinds of certificates, such as accountant certificate, teacher certificate and so on. What is the reason for that? And it should be advocated or not?

這是一個(gè)相當(dāng)普遍的現(xiàn)象，大學(xué)生都熱衷于獲得各種證書，如會計(jì)證書，教師資格證書等。這是為什么呢？應(yīng)不應(yīng)該提倡呢？

In my opinion, there are two reasons accounting for the phenomenon. For one thing, many students think that the more certificates they get now, the more chances they can get a good job in the future. They are told that the companies or institutions think highly of the certificate when interviewing. Therefore, they try their best to get all kinds of certificates, even though some have no any relationship with their majors or interests. For another, following others’ choices is another reason. A number of students go to purse the certificates because they find that many classmates around them are doing that so they think it would be safe to follow others.

在我看來，有兩個(gè)原因。一方面，許多學(xué)生認(rèn)為他們得到了越多的證書，將來他們能夠得到一份好工作的機(jī)會就越大。他們被告知說，公司或一些機(jī)構(gòu)在采訪的時(shí)候都認(rèn)為證書很重要。因此，他們努力獲得各種證書，即使是一些和他們專業(yè)和興趣沒有任何關(guān)系的證書。另一方面，隨波逐流也是一個(gè)原因。許多學(xué)生用錢去買證書，因?yàn)樗麄儼l(fā)現(xiàn)他們周圍的很多同學(xué)都是這樣做的，所以他們覺得跟著別人會比較安全些。

From my point of view, it is not wise for everyone to follow others’ steps to get all kinds of certificates. I consider that we should make our choices combining with our own concrete conditions. Besides, certificate is not the only one criterion to measure our ability and we should not be too enthusiastic over it.   

在我看來，每個(gè)人都跟隨別人的腳步去獲得各種證書是不明智的。我認(rèn)為我們應(yīng)該結(jié)合自己的具體情況而做出選擇。此外，證書并不是衡量自己能力的唯一標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，我們不應(yīng)該對它過于熱衷。