大學生考證熱 Certificate Craze on Campus

It is quite a common phenomenon that college students are enthusiastic over getting all kinds of certificates, such as accountant certificate, teacher certificate and so on. What is the reason for that? And it should be advocated or not?

這是一個相當普遍的現象，大學生都熱衷於獲得各種證書，如會計證書，教師資格證書等。這是爲什麼呢？應不應該提倡呢？

In my opinion, there are two reasons accounting for the phenomenon. For one thing, many students think that the more certificates they get now, the more chances they can get a good job in the future. They are told that the companies or institutions think highly of the certificate when interviewing. Therefore, they try their best to get all kinds of certificates, even though some have no any relationship with their majors or interests. For another, following others’ choices is another reason. A number of students go to purse the certificates because they find that many classmates around them are doing that so they think it would be safe to follow others.

在我看來，有兩個原因。一方面，許多學生認爲他們得到了越多的證書，將來他們能夠得到一份好工作的機會就越大。他們被告知說，公司或一些機構在採訪的時候都認爲證書很重要。因此，他們努力獲得各種證書，即使是一些和他們專業和興趣沒有任何關係的證書。另一方面，隨波逐流也是一個原因。許多學生用錢去買證書，因爲他們發現他們周圍的很多同學都是這樣做的，所以他們覺得跟着別人會比較安全些。

From my point of view, it is not wise for everyone to follow others’ steps to get all kinds of certificates. I consider that we should make our choices combining with our own concrete conditions. Besides, certificate is not the only one criterion to measure our ability and we should not be too enthusiastic over it.   

在我看來，每個人都跟隨別人的腳步去獲得各種證書是不明智的。我認爲我們應該結合自己的具體情況而做出選擇。此外，證書並不是衡量自己能力的唯一標準，我們不應該對它過於熱衷。