在新年开始的时候，我们通常都会做新年决心，在新的一年里，我一定要……，我一定会……本文是送给所有在校大学生的新年决心，不管是刚刚入学还是即将毕业，相信这篇文章对大家都会有所帮助。

We made it: the end of the year. Tonight, we’re positively encouraged to take ourselves apart so we can wake in the morning with groggy designs to reassemble for the better.
我们做到啦：又过了一年。今晚，我们肯定会被鼓励剖析自己，以便我们在早晨醉醺醺的醒来时能够重整旗鼓。

New Year Resolutions: renewal, reinvention, reform. University, with its few constraints and many opportunities, is the ideal time to attempt change and improvement.
新年决心：重生、再发明、变革改良。大学，因为有着很少的限制和很多的机遇，是改变和提高的理想时期。

While preferably all resolutions would amount to taking better advantage of every moment – a sentimental but not unworthy intention- below are the resolutions I’m most glad to have made, or those that, in hindsight, I should have made.
因为希望所有的决心都意味着更好的利用每一刻——这是个伤感却并非毫无价值的意图——下列都是我最希望做出的，马后炮的说，是我曾经应该做出的。

Get work experience
积累工作经验

This is the priority. Underemployment is a disheartening plague: sixth formers are pushed into university, and university students are let go into a graduate job market that cannot take the numbers.
这是最优先的。就业不足是个让人沮丧的难题：六成成年人被推进了大学，当大学生毕业时，人才市场却容纳不了这么多人。

Once, employers asked for a degree or experience; now they demand both. It’s up to each student to use their degree to its full advantage: sadly, there is no longer an irrefutable corollary between qualification and employment. Work where you can – every job will provide some useful experience.
曾几何时，雇主们只看学位或者工作经验，现在他们两样都要。对大学生来说，把学位作为自己的全部优势是个人自由。但不幸的是，资格和就业之间再也不能划等号了。

Do a little more work at university
在大学里再多学一点。

Not to be a bore about it, but the biggest mistake any student can make is to not work hard enough. Skipping non-compulsory lectures can become a rather pleasing pastime, but what is missed now will not be covered in a series of catch up lectures-for-bluffers.
听烦了吧，但是每个学生犯下的最大的错误就是学习不够刻苦。翘掉选修课可以变成一种相当好玩的娱乐，但是你错过的就是错过了，不会因为后面的讲座就假装知道了。

Get a handle on the January exams, then keep up the study. Don’t slack off. I once spent an afternoon exam watching a fly with an obvious drink problem bounce and buzz between desks, wondering whether it knew more about property law than I did. It was hell.
搞定一月份的考试，然后继续学习，别偷懒。我曾经在一次下午考试中因为喝多了全程盯着一只苍蝇在桌子之间跳来跳去嗡嗡叫，想说它会不会比我知道更多关于财产法的内容，那是个大杯具。

Kick the procrastination
赶走拖延症

No one can stick to this, but just remember that tweeting about your work doesn’t count as doing it. 140-character wonderings may give you practice for crisp writing, but that only counts if you get anything useful down.  
没人能坚持住，但是要记得，发推讲你要做的事儿不等于你做了。140个字可能能让你练习简短写作，但只有你记下什么有用的东西才算数。