Sowing the Seeds, Nurturing Growth and Harvesting the Reward

As is hold by some people, a student’s pursuing of success in university study follows very much the same pattern of farming—sowing the seeds, nurturing growth and harvesting the rewards’ process. As far as my own experience as a student is concerned, I firmly approve of this statement.

Since the very first day we entered college, we began our actual journey of farming. As a man sows and so he shall reap, but what if he put down no seeds to the land? He will gain nothing from an empty land. Likewise, a college student who sows no seeds of knowledge in the soil of the mind, he will be likely to find himself ignorant when he graduates from the college. Contrary to those who embrace no attempt to absorb knowledge, the successful students soak up a variety of resources, including internalizing the content required in curriculum arrangement, doing extracurricular reading and also gaining experience by doing some part-time jobs. He will never idle away his time.

Beyond the foundation as sowing the seed of knowledge, the mastery of knowledge also requires reinforcement and consolidation, just as the step of nurturing in farming. Every dancer knows that one minute on the stage might need ten years of practice off the stage. Likewise, every college student has to bear it in mind that learning does not happen once and for all. A successful student will constantly review his lessons, seldom hesitate to turn to their teachers whenever hit by a puzzle, and spares no efforts to gain as much knowledge as possible.

Furthermore, learning is also analogous to farming in that the more work you do, the greater reward you might gain. It is natural that after a long period of arduous farming and onerous nurturing, a farmer will receive the reward of an excellent harvest, which is most cheerful thing to him. Equally, an assiduous college student who never cut out the learning and reinforcing process will surely get good answer for his efforts in the future.

In a word, study in our college life can never be a thing to be ignored. Before harvesting, there is no compensation for the omitting of either sowing or nurturing. When you receive good repayment you will find every hardship valuable.