英语专业晨读美文-人生篇 1 Entering the New Room of

[00:00.09]Entering the New Room of Your Life

[00:07.72]It must be one of the most frequently 1 asked questions

[00:12.77]in the English language—

[00:14.32]“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

[00:16.45]And for most of us the answer is simple—

[00:18.95]“I don't know.” And that's just fine.

[00:21.56]For teenagers all over the world it is difficult to imagine

[00:25.72]life outside the familiar school grounds

[00:28.28]and comfortable family home.

[00:29.89]But when the university entrance exams finish

[00:32.97]and high-school graduation wraps 2 up,

[00:35.18]it is time to move on to a whole new stage

[00:38.18]in one's life—adulthood.

[00:40.25]One day when you are 40, you may look back on your life

[00:44.53]and wonder exactly how you became an adult.

[00:47.60]When did you change? Quite often the answer will lie

[00:52.10]between your first day of university

[00:54.15]and the first day of your professional 3 career.

[00:56.45]While you cannot pinpoint 4 an exact time,

[00:59.01]somewhere in the “roommate days” or “dorm days”

[01:02.87]you learnt things far more valuable than anything

[01:05.69]you could learn in a classroom.

[01:08.24]For it is in this time we learn independence-

[01:10.85]Mum and Dad can't take care of you anymore;

[01:14.06]responsibility—you have to clean your own bedroom

[01:17.91]and make your own meals; maturity—

[01:20.63]suddenly joking about “girl's germs” doesn't seem so funny

[01:24.87]when you actually have a girlfriend or boyfriend;

[01:27.55]respect—you should take care of John's computer,

[01:30.91]he spent a lot of money on it; and budgeting—

[01:33.82]should you spend your last $50 on new shoes or pizza?

[01:38.24]And a big part of the living-away-from-home process

[01:41.99]is communication. High-class celebrities 5 and

[01:45.14]highly paid psychologists 6 are always telling us,

[01:48.18]to fix our relationship problems,

[01:50.22]“the key is communication.”

[01:52.13]And nothing can provide better training in

[01:54.87]developing communication than living with other people.

[01:57.77]“Whose dirty socks are these?”

[01:59.82]“Where is your share of the rent money?”

[02:02.02]“Let's have a party on Friday night!”

[02:04.27]“I think I'm going to break-up with my boyfriend.”

[02:06.99]This special period of time is guaranteed to

[02:10.47]make you feel every emotion possible,

[02:12.75]but at the same time it will provide you

[02:15.90]with the best memories you could ever dream of.

[02:18.28]When the “dorm days” come to an end,

[02:20.92]we finally know where we belong in the world.

[02:23.66]And finally, we know exactly what we want to be when we grow up.