The Most Important Personal Quality of a University Student

The Most Important Personal Quality of a University Student

Intense competition in job market turns the society into a cruel arena, where awaits fierce fight for university students to get a position. In response to such reality, devoted university students try to become more competitive through different means, one of which is to attain various advantageous personal qualities, such as confidence, maturity and flexibility. Among these qualities, flexibility, I believe, is the most important personal quality a university student should possess to set up his or her future success. Firstly, flexibility adapts university students to a changeable society. As reality always conflicts with dreams, life requires a series of adjustments. Smart person should be flexible enough to grasp opportunities. One case in point is Bill Gates, the richest person in the world, being flexible enough to drop his promising study in Harvard University, started his software company which benefited people all around the world. Diligent and clever as many of his classmates were, they never achieved such success, mainly because they were too absorbed in the orthodox idea to work hard to be employed to a decent job. Secondly, a flexible student can accept ups and downs in life in an optimistic way, and thereby becomes one component of a harmonious society. The large percent of life is adversity. Only when one is flexible to overcome adversities then he or she can lead an easy life. A typical example is the well known story of a General in ancient times. Encouraged by a spider’s successful completion of a web after seven times’ failure, the General pulled himself together and wined the decisive battle. If there is no such thing as flexibility, Beethoven would never have been able to compose unperishing music under the circumstance of deafness, and Robert Frost would never have “took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Unfortunately, many people nowadays are too inflexible to cope with tests of destiny, and commit suicide to escape. Moreover, flexibility adds university students a winning card in competition. A flexible student can strike a balance between work and other elements of life, let alone interpersonal relationships, which is of vital importance in social life. Hilary Clinton, today’s hot candidate of the president of United States, has wined her popularity with her flexibility in dealing with her husband’s extramarital affair. Flexibility also applies to daily working, in which a student should also be flexible enough to handle emergency and unexpected tasks. In a word, flexibility is conducive to a university student. Therefore, a university student should be conscious to gain such personal quality, thus make oneself stronger and invincible in the society.