Matriculation Fixation 课文分析.docx

Matriculation Fixation 课文分析主题In the essay the author offers his sincere advice to those parents who have college bound children. He first criticizes some parents who try to select universities for their children. Then he tells those disillusioned parents whose children are unlikely to enter prestigious universities that many people achieve huge success in this society without a degree from a prestigious university. Finally he reminds those parents that "life doesn't have just one act. 主要内容“Matriculation Fixation” is chiefly about parental obsessions with childrens educational paths. He claims that not every child needs to attend the most top level college and many people who have graduated from lesser known colleges, dropped out of college or not even attended college went on to live successful and fulfilling lives. In other words, there are numerous examples that prove that there is not a strong link between personal success and the level of universities they choose to attend. In this text, the author uses his and his friends experience to tell us a good university does not necessarily guarantee a successful career, and parents reasonability does not end when their children leave home for university. Entering a prestigious university is not a criterion to judge a persons success. Finally, he said life doesnt have just one act. There is often Act Two. And Act Five. 结构Part I (Paras. 16) I encountered a father who was being afflicted by regretful thoughts about not sending his daughter to a top-level university. Part II (Paras. 716)Parents are obsessed with sending children to first-tier universities, but there is no strong link between success and the level of universities one chooses to attend. Paras. 78 College selection is a topic I have been fed up with.Paras. 910 Proud parents tend to regard their childrens success in securing admission to top-flight universities as the end to their parental duties, but that job never ends. Para. 1112 Other parents whose offspring fail to get into top-ranking universities may disown them, but in reality many children are late boomers. Para. 1316 Parents pay obligatory visits to renowned universities yet at a loss what they are looking for. 为何不想讨论大学入学的时期The author believes that such discussions are meaningless or even harmful. Here, he seems to suggest that for those parents who happen to make the right selections for their children or whose children go to prestigious universities such a topic would be self- aggrandizing, but for those who fail to make the right selections or whose children go to less prestigious universities such a topic would be self-flagellatory. cribbage纸牌 stand for? Cribbage is a card game. Here it is used in contrast to "mind-numbing discussion." Thus it stands for something entertaining, rather than boring or afflicting. 录像admissions office video想传达什么?作者发现什么？The admissions office video tries to dismiss the saying that MIT is a factory that produces boring and unfashionable people who are not good at communicating with other people in social situations. However, the author saw a lot of such people on the campus.