I advocate that the most important thing we should concern about when choosing electives is our personal interests.

Along with the development of our education, today most universities have offered various electives for students to choose and study. However, some people claim that these elective courses have very little effect on spreading knowledge and students’ development because what students concern about when choosing electives are so different.

随着我国教育的发展，如今大多数大学都为学生提供了各种各样的选修课。然而，一些人认为这些选修课对传播知识和学生的发展影响很小，因为学生们担心选择选修课是如此之不同。

There are various kinds of reasons for choosing electives and I list some in here. Primarily, the most important and wide factor students concern about is the teachers of the courses. Instead considering the quality of the teacher, or the form or style of the teacher will take or act in the course, they just want to make sure that the teacher they choose will never keep trace of their attendance and let them fail in their exams. In addition, a large number of students choose their elective courses aiming to get a high score but never consider what they will learn and how to apply to it. What’s worse, some students choose their electives just they are forced by their schools’ institution demand and their score need.

有各种各样的选择选修课的原因，我在这里列出了一些。首先，学生关心的最重要和最普遍的因素是上课的教师。不是考虑教师的上课质量，或教师上课的形式、风格，他们只是想确保他们选择的老师不会经常考勤或让他们考试不及格。此外，大部分的学生选择选修课的目的在于得高分，而从不考虑从中会学到什么，如何去应用它。更糟糕的是，有些学生选择选修课只是因为学校的强制和分数的需要。

As far as I am concerned, I advocate that the most important thing we should concern about when choosing electives is our personal interests. The most worthy meaning for these electives is to broaden our horizon and extend our knowledge as much as possible and to complement our major and compulsory courses. Therefore, what electives we choose should be in accordance with our interests and our career planning instead of aiming to make high score or pass the exam.

我认为在选择选修课的时候我们应该关注的是我们个人的兴趣。这些最有价值意义的选修课可以扩大我们的视野，弥补我们专业必修课程的不足。因此，我们应该根据我们的兴趣和职业规划来选择选修课而不是为了得高分或通过考试。