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本科毕业设计（论文） 外 文 翻 译 原文： How to Study 5/e IMPROVING MOTIVATION Why is it hard to study? For one thing, there is the difference between high school and college. In high school someone is usually breathing down your neck every day to get you to do your work, and hardly any internal push is required. In college external pressure scarcely exists. You are on your own.For most students homework is not assigned on a regular basis, and some-times a single assignment may be given for the entire semester. Another reason it’s hard to study has to do with the absence of short-term goals. Most students who go to college express some kind of career interest.They want to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, business executives, teachers,and so on. But these aims are often vague, and it is hard to see how day-to-day schoolwork relates to them. Few students are absolutely sure of what they want to do in life, and even fewer know exactly what they must do in college to prepare themselves for their chosen careers. If career aspirations should change, as they often do, students are adrift, and this causes insecurity and anxiety that make studying difficult. One of the reasons for going to college is to determine a direction for your life. A college education should provide you with enough experience to help you find your career goal. There is nothing wrong with not knowing what you want to do, even after you’ve been in college for a while. Occupational choice is often difficult, particularly for students in a liberal arts program. In the absence of a firm career decision, many students find it difficult to work up much enthusiasm for studying. Or worse, they feel positively paralyzed without some clear goal in mind, even if they like their courses. But if you don’t feel any clear-cut calling to a particular occupation, don’t let it worry you. One thing you can be sure of: If you haven’t made a career choice by the time you are 21 or 22, the world will not come to an end. If you are in a li