By Letitia Lee Is it really difficult to have both wisdom and beauty at the same time? Well, every girl can have both of them if she’d like to. A girl who majors in Engineering wrote on the BBS that was once envious of the girls from the College of Liberal Arts, who are always beautifully attired, walking on campus with makeup and designer accessories, while she squats in the corner of her lab clumsily fighting with complicated instruments in her cheapest jeans, T-shirt, and messy hair. However, after so many years of hard work, she also pities those girls who pay so much attention to their appearance and have gotten nowhere.
Wow, that seems so serious, doesn’t it? Actually, as a girl from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, I have to say that the girls around me are always in fashion, and they enjoy sharing with each other which department stores are having anniversary sales, who is wearing a nice dress trimmed with lace today, and who went on a diet and successfully lost 0.5 kg. It’s no doubt that girls love to dress up, and especially in a department crammed with girls who love to compare themselves with each other. But we girls still know what we’re doing. We’re not, as she wrote, coasting along on gut courses congenial to hangovers. And studying literature isn’t so easy either, as she thinks, and that all we need to do is flip through our books for a while before the midterm exam and get good grades. While others are deliberating microphysics, students in the DFLL are shuttling through the library and the computer center doing research on Metaphysical Poetry and Yeats. Girls around me have full schedules for the summer vacation, for practical training, for cram schools after they graduate, or for exams for financial licenses. Who insists that dressing beautifully equals knowing nothing? But being good looking and well dressed and confident can only enhance a person, right? It doesn’t necessarily have to conflict with the knowledge you want to pursue. Working in the public relations department of the Student Association for more than two years, I found that first impressions are very important. When you get in touch with others, they notice your confidence and your appearance first; it is only then that they listen to what you have on your mind. An essay recently published in Time reveals that corporate culture puts just as much emphasis on qualities such as personality, positive attitude, and likablility as on high grades or intelligence. Curling up with a book and spending all your time in the library may lead to difficulties when stepping into society and having to practice your people skills. Self-help books continually advise us to play down the smarts, to be courageous, and to show ourselves as full of confidence. Start with your appearance. Yeah, who doesn’t like to dress up? Why can’t we hold a more positive attitude toward girls who like to embrace beauty? There’s no need for you to spend lots of money running after the latest fashion, and, of course, you don’t have to feel like an empty vase with nothing in your mind. What I want to emphasize is simply that you can show your beauty while you are still able to! a
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May 2024
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