1、作文：In my understanding, if we refer to an ideal college life as a formal western dinner, then a high GPA, that is, Grade Point Average, should be the main course, while an active part in activities, together with associations, means the appetizer. Some romances, of course, play the role as desserts. They are the 3 key elements for an ideal college life.

Those, however, are not what college life is all about. As we all know, college is wildly different from middle school. It connects not only adolescence to adulthood, but also the ivory tower to the real society. Therefore, the ideal college life is that I become matured both physically and mentally, and that I obtain qualified academic knowledge and get well prepared for society at the same time.

Under this circumstance, I never expect my college life to be too ideal, or you can call it too perfect. It is not realistic to make all things on my own way, with everyone liking me, winning the first prize all the time, and so on. Of course, I’d like to lead a carefree life. However, this does little good to my future. What really helps is hardships like failure, betrayal, and unjust treatment. Only after experiencing those can I know what society is like, and what life is like.

To conclude my speech, I wanna say, some positive experiences are surely part of the ideal college life. But, I should not forget about the negative sides. They are not less necessary.

2、翻譯：在我的理解中，如果我們把理想的大學生活稱為正式的西餐，那么高GPA，也就是平均成績，應該是主菜，而積極參加活動，加上交往，就意味著開胃菜。當然，有些浪漫故事扮演著甜點的角色。它們是理想大學生活的三大要素。

然而，這些并不是大學生活的全部。眾所周知，大學和中學大不相同。它不僅把青春期與成年聯系起來，而且把象牙塔和現實社會聯系起來。因此，理想的大學生活是我身心成熟，同時獲得合格的學術知識和為社會做好準備。

在這種情況下，我從不期望我的大學生活太理想，或者你可以說它太完美了。所有事情都按我自己的方式來做是不現實的，每個人都喜歡我，一直拿一等獎等等。當然，我想過一種無憂無慮的生活。然而，這對我的未來沒什么好處。真正有幫助的是像失敗、背叛和不公正待遇這樣的困難。只有經歷了這些，我才能知道社會是什么樣的，生活是什么樣的。

最后，我想說，一些積極的經歷肯定是理想大學生活的一部分。但是，我不應該忘記消極的一面。它們的必要性并不低。