Approaching the Spring Festival, the first batch of young people in the small town who went home for the New Year have begun the annual class reunion, and someone found out:
The "problem students" who gave teachers and parents a headache in elementary school have now become small entrepreneurs with good incomes;
The top student in the same class in junior high school was admitted to 985, and everyone worked in a blink of an eye.
Students with average grades in high school have experienced graduation, part-time jobs, unemployment, and re-employment, and now although they are no longer in a big factory, their income is acceptable and their families are happy.
The high school entrance examination is a ticket that gives young people in small towns the opportunity to leave their hometowns and go to a wider sea, and after that, they have different solutions in their lives.
This reminds us of the "High School Classmates Blind Box" series filmed by a popular short ** blogger.
His high school alma mater, Benxi Senior High School, is one of the top 50 high schools in the country and often tops the college entrance examination. And the class he was in was 985, including the local provincial champions.
The classmates include Li Xueqin, who is well-known to netizens as a self-deprecating "Peking University waste", and Liu Dingning, a legendary figure who won the college entrance examination twice, dropped out of Hong Kong University and was admitted to Peking University.
10 years have passed,Some of the students are rich and free, and some are doing mundane work in fields they don't like.
Like the protagonist from the small town in our following, double non-chemistry bachelor's degree, two cross-examination 985 master of arts; or Peking University chose to return to the county to teach and educate people; Or returnees are admitted to the county for a master's degree and return to the county to prepare ......
Regardless of whether you once felt that you were the one who bet on the "horse race", or it was not satisfactory, looking back on these years:
In fact, it is not all smooth sailing, and sometimes although life seems narrow, there are still broad places.
Every year, there are many students who cross the examination in the team of World War II graduate school, but generally speaking, the professional span is not very large, nothing more than from journalism to Chinese, from administrative management to law.
But Sugiyama is one of the few denominators, undergraduate chemistry, twice crossed the examination for a master's degree in literature 985.
Six years ago, he was far away from his hometown and admitted to a "distant" secondary college in the northeast from a county town in the southwest, studying chemistry that he was not interested in.
In his junior year, he was determined to pursue a graduate school in literature.
So, he began the "college entrance examination" postgraduate examination review. Unfortunately, the First World War was unsuccessful.
No complaints, no hesitation, quickly adjust yourself, cheer up and fight again. In the second year, I walked into the 985 university I had in mind with a good result of ranking first in the overall ranking, and began to "get along with each other" with my favorite major for three years.
At the postgraduate entrance examination experience sharing meeting, Sugiyama shared such a sentence with the younger students: ".When the god of fate pushes you to brave the moment, I hope you can be as brave as you imagined
When he realized that he was actually a "small-town problem-solver", Sugiyama also had labor pains and confusion, but he finally reconciled himselfIn exploring the path of self-realization, I am not willing to just do the questions given by others.
What was it like to be a top student from a young age? "The champion of the high school entrance examination", "the eyes of the college entrance examination list" and "other people's children", these labels have made Zhou Yu gain countless envious eyes.
Growing up, going to school was a great joy; There is no so-called "night reading" and "hanging beam thorn stock", he is born to be a "volume king" who can learn and play.
After graduating from Peking University with a master's degree and a Ph.D., Zhou Yu, like most young people, chose Shanghai as the place where his dream began.
In his spare time, he also goes to art exhibitions and posts some unique reading thoughts on social platforms. From the campus to the workplace, he has lived his own color.
Not long ago, Zhou Yu made the headlines released by his hometown Rong **, and the content of this report was:He gave up his high salary in Shanghai and returned to his hometown to teach in a small town middle school.
Is this the choice value? Maybe others will say: It's not worth it. The education is so good, the work is so good, but the result is back to the starting point, and the efforts of these years are in vain.
But he said, "I feel that this place needs to change, education is the starting point to change my life, I am willing to be the 'first person to eat crabs', and it is also my wish to be able to serve my hometown."
It is reported that in order to allow more students to get out of the "small town", this school has recruited a number of graduates of Tsinghua University and Peking University with excellent talent introduction conditions. The town is also on the road of "transformation", and promising young people like Zhou Yu are undoubtedly the starters who help the development of the town.
Zhou Yu is still the outstanding young man who lives for himself, whether it is a big city or a small town, no matter in **, dreams can blossom, andThis time he has returned from growing up and wants to help more flowers bloom themselves.
Also looking high and low is Yuri, who has 985 bachelor's degree and the top 20 QS ranking of master's colleges.
Since she was a child, she has been a good student in the eyes of her teachers, with outstanding grades, and her classmates also like her, and whoever asks her questions will answer them patiently.
And as he received more and more education, Yuri gradually understood:
Learning at university is different from secondary school, and the evaluation criteria should be diverse. Truly valuable knowledge should not be an empty intellectual game, because the world to which you are accustomed is small.
So, when everyone thought that the pace of her life should be getting faster and faster, she seemed to slow down.
After graduating from university, I spent a year at a red circle law firm and applied for a master's degree at an overseas university.
After graduating with a master's degree, I took a gap year and started traveling.
In the eyes of others, her life is a bit "high and low", but she herself is very satisfied.
used to be all over the world, but now there are five towns and four towns, classmates like Zhou Yu and Yuri used to laugh at themselves like this.
However, life is a river, what can be seen is high and low, and what is not seen is not still water flowing deep.
Fio is a talented and thoughtful person, and since he was a child, he likes to play and create.
After the college entrance examination, with the bonus points of "independent enrollment", he successfully entered an imperial capital 211 media college, and at the suggestion of his family, he chose the liberal arts major with the highest admission score;
After graduating, he taught at an educational institution, and at that time he thought about saving money to study abroad and change his art major.
But this road requires a lot of capital investment, so in the expectation and persuasion of his family, he returned to his hometown, a third-tier city, and entered the middle school to teach.
The dull days made him feel more and more that if he had to be like this in life, it would be a kind of self-consumption.
After much deliberation, he talked openly with his parents and decided to give up the peaceful days of the town and return to the imperial capital.
After reading the stories of the four protagonists in this article, you will find:
Whether it's starting from a small town and gaining a foothold in a big city, or coming from a small town to a big city and returning to a small town, or returning to a small town and then leaving:
There are different solutions in life, unlike the high school entrance examination, where there is no fixed standard answer.
Although they used to be born in small towns and went to and from school every day, everyone seemed to take the same road, and everyone's paths were also very different.
This difference seems to be the attraction of "opening a blind box for classmates"**.
However, in addition to the differences, living in a self-consistent way, although there are thousands of postures and differences, they all have the same strength, and they all appreciate their own scenery.
Through these protagonists, we are happiest to see:
Although we are a big country in the exam, the seeds of adolescence have already borne a way of thinkingThe traces of the test are left on the individual's body, which may be light or severe;
More and more young people have begun to disenchant the single success evaluation criteria of society, and rebuild and slowly complete a new set of adaptive value systems.
And when we have more imagination about life, we will no longer casually feel that "my life is over".
When you look to the future in your twenties, what you can see is limited by life experience, like a flashlight in the dark, you can only see a little light, and you can't see the panorama of the map.
The exams I have taken, the studies I have learned, the cities I have walked, and the lives I have spent are all a breeze in the long river of time.
The road of life has been walking, and if you look at it in another 10, 20, or 30 years, the meaning will be different.
References: 1] Look at the ideal: "The town is a problematic", tired.
2] Youth Digest: Reuniting with my hometown in Northeast China after 20 years, I saw the real life of a small town as a subject.
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