【推荐1】A Few Tips to Become a Top Student

As a teaching assistant at a university, I found some learning tips.    1         

You should study two to three hours outside of your class per week. I can tell you that spending an hour of self-studying for every credit hour will put you ahead of a lot of your classmates. Studying for long hours will often be necessary when you have an exam.    2    . Psychologists say a healthy amount of sleep will help you remember what you have learned!

My best students are the ones who find time to complete parts of the homework well before it’s due. Topper students are not ahead of intelligence of mental skill.    3     They manage time so well that they won’t feel guilty after exams when they think they could have done better.

Prepare summary notes in advance. They should mainly cover all important definitions(定义), points or flowcharts which are more likely to come in exams.

This might look opposite of what you have heard till now. However, studying for more hours are less effective than studying for less time along with enough breaks in between.

They make you less productive and lazy.     5    It will keep you stick to its website and keep showing you funny videos, pictures and music.

【推荐2】How many times have you heard that reducing stress is important for good health? But stress isn’t always the enemy. In fact, research suggests some is actually good for you, with possible benefits ranging from better brain function to healthier aging.

Firstly, it’s ubiquitous: Research suggests people feel at least some stress on 90% of their days. When stress worsens for a long time and can’t be solved, it can cause mental and physical health problems, even raising your risk for conditions like heart disease. But in most cases, a stress response (反应) is important. It can help you get through a hard time or even escape physical danger. And, when stress is managed well, it can lead to better health and happiness in the future.

Stress can be damaging — but proper amount of stress can be helpful, according to Assaf Oshri, a professor at the University of Georgia. Oshri says, “Resilience (适应力) comes from your interactions (相互作用) with the environment. If people don’t experience any stress, they may not build up resilience. If they experience too much, their happiness may suffer. But there seems to be a balance between the two, where stress improves mental health and helps people recover from difficult situations.”

When people face pressure, some approaches can also be taken to deal with it. Playing sports can help to find a balance in the face of stress, according to some experts. Turning to loved ones during tough times is important too. And if you can, remind yourself that stress is a difficult but necessary part of life.

“You can’t choose exactly what happens to you, but you can choose your response in the moment,” Jonathan Rush, a professor at the University of Victoria in Canada, says. “Having the idea that you can overcome things, you can grow from things; whatever happens, you will have a path forward — that’s what matters most.”

【推荐2】Most young people these days expect a reasonably diverse workplace - but those who take up the seafaring (航海的) career are still unlikely to find many female colleagues. It’s hard to find a line of work with a smaller percentage of women in it than seafaring- in the UK. Professional beer inspectors are one of the few workforces with a smaller percentage of females.

Nautilus professional and technical officer David Appleton said that British shipping clearly has a problem, with just 1% of engineer officers being women, and the intake of female employees failing to move beyond 5% in each of the last three years.

He said the industry needs to do more to get rid of misconceptions that can discourage women from going to sea or make companies unwilling to take them on.

“There are plenty of other jobs out there that have strict fitness requirements where women have to meet exactly the same standards as men - - and the majority of these have far more females than the merchant navy (商船队),”he pointed out. Some 7% of the London firefighters are women, he noted.

Many opinions on women’s instability in careers surely do not stand up, Mr Appleton added. Research into “career mapping” shows that about one- quarter of new women seafarers determine to remain at sea until retirement and more than one-third plan to come ashore within 15 years of starting out.

Mr Appleton said the industry needs to adopt measures if it is serious about recruiting (招夢) more women. “It means identifying and promoting role models and getting the good news stories out there.”

Captain Susan Thomson, who now serves ashore with BP Shipping, said, “I think we sometimes concentrate on the negative and only hear about women in shipping when it is bad. It would be naive (天真的) to think bad stories don’t exist, and the industry needs to be more inclusive.”