Some Things Chinese college Students should Learn from American College Students


I have been studied in America for almost a year. I am already accustomed the American education system. With time going on, I find out some points that our Chinese colleges are good to learn from American colleges. We Chinese colleges should pay attention the importance of teamwork. We also set ourselves in an independent situation.
I found out American colleges pay attention on teamwork. They would like to take time to have a team meeting or something to talk about their project in detail, then everyone would get his work. That is really an effective way to work on the team project. Every member in this team get a chance to work on this project, at the same time it does make the project go on fluently. Everyone has his own focus about his project. After each member finish his work, team members will meet again for putting all the information together. To make the project look more smooth, team members get together to give some suggestion about how to revise the detail in this project. During time, team members meet when they feel they need talk more about project. Our Chinese college is better at doing stuff by ourselves. We don’t pay attention on teamwork. Even though we got a team project, we won’t meet during the time that we work on it. Chinese college do own job instead of communicating much. When time is right, Chinese colleges will meet as the first time to put things together no matter it is responsible or not. This is no good for our academic study.
American colleges’ independence impresses me from the first day when I meet my first American friend. They are always busy because they need get good grades at school and make money to support their living expense or more. They work during school year and summer time and winter time. If we go to some store near campus, those employees are all colleges. Colleges take all the job position. At the same time work on campus is another way to make money. They learn work experience through work from real and can reduce parents’ stress for sure. However, Chinese colleges are still parents’ babies. Parents support everything of our expense. Chinese colleges think study is our only work for colleges. Other thing like working for real is going to be something after graduating. They don’t want to worry about it yet, just enjoy our college time. But truth proves that American college always more capable then Chinese colleges, which can be found in work for real in the future. Because American colleges already know what’s the way in career. They understand that because they went through when they were very young.
Those are what I found out the differences between American colleges and Chinese colleges. I do think those are something worthy to learn for our Chinese colleges. That would help us a lot in the future.