With the development of mass higher education in China, confusion--a contradictory state between college students' awareness of employment, learning, morality, and their own behavior and societal requirements--is proving a ubiquitous problem among college students. His confusion has garnered much social attention. In this paper, the origins of confusion and its countermeasures are summarized. He most significant reason for college students' confusion is the sharp contrast between their role orientation and their social development. We conclude that what a college and a college student are must be rediscovered in the context of lifelong learning.