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Gu Yuzhou, a talented teenager from Nanjing, won a number of world-class information competitions at the age of 15, and locked in the admission qualification of Tsinghua University, which is coveted by domestic students in advance.
However, when the doors of Tsinghua were about to open for him, he chose to turn around and leave and went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. Some people question that he gave up Tsinghua University for the 350,000 yuan scholarship, but what is the truth?
Just look at his upbringing to find out.
Xiao Yuzhou's birth is a precious gift from the family. His name "Yuzhou" means bright and broad, and it embodies the deep expectations of his parents. However, Gu Yuzhou's parents were busy with work and were often unable to accompany him to grow up.
So, they entrusted him to the neighbor's aunt. Children in this period are often mischievous, but Gu Yuzhou is an exception. He is well-behaved and sensible, always moving a small bench to sit quietly on the side, chatting with the neighbor's sister like a little adult.
This not only made his aunt very fond of him, but also made his parents feel extremely gratified. Despite his young age, his maturity and steadiness are admirable.
When Gu Yuzhou saw his sister's math book, he couldn't help but look at it happily, which made his sister worry that he would tear the book and turn pale. However, Gu Yuzhou didn't mean to tear the book, he watched it with relish, and gestured in the air with his hand from time to time.
The aunt was a little puzzled about him, so she changed a book to him, and he was still very devoted. The secret of taking care of Xiao Gu Yuzhou was finally found, and he only needed to throw a book to him.
Gu Yuzhou is about to enter primary school, and there are many well-known schools in Nanjing, and parents do not hesitate to spend a lot of money and energy to let their children enter. However, Gu Yuzhou's parents were an exception, and they chose Huadian Primary School in Qixia District, Nanjing.
This ordinary primary school is close to home and easy to pick up and drop-off. Children's education, they have their own opinions, that the quality of learning lies in the child's internal drive, and there is no need to pursue a prestigious school too much.
Gu Yuzhou doesn't know what famous schools are not, he only knows that there are a lot of books to read now, which is the happiest thing. In addition to reading books, he also found one more interesting thing, and that was Go.
In the summer vacation of the year he graduated from kindergarten, his mother enrolled him in the Go interest class of the Nanjing Chess Academy. Now he's a little chess player! At first, Gu Yuzhou didn't understand what was fun about this kind of game with only black and white chess pieces.
After two or three lessons, he liked it. Nineteen vertical and horizontal lines on the chessboard are staggered, as if you are in a battlefield. One hundred and eighty chess pieces in hand, like holding thousands of horses.
Gu Yuzhou was immersed in it, arranging troops, galloping and killing, and enjoying it.
Go, an intelligent sport that requires precise calculations and global control. Gu Yuzhou, a teenager who loves Go, is good at judging the situation and flexibly using various algorithms to find a way to solve it.
Every time he cracks an ingenious chess game, he feels an indescribable sense of joy and satisfaction. He was fascinated by the wisdom of Go and decided to learn the art more deeply.
He attended the introductory class at the chess academy, but it was not enough for him, and he was eager to get to know him more deeply. So, he plunged headlong into the library and began to study Go books.
He carefully studied various chess knowledge such as layout, officials, mid-game attack and defense, and life-and-death issues, and understood them all thoroughly. Every weekend, he would not hesitate to choose to study in the library.
As soon as he learns a new technique, he plays online and puts what he has learned into practice. This combination of theory and practice has made his chess skills improve rapidly. Eventually, the teacher of the chess academy noticed him and recruited him into the powerful Little Tigers class.
The Little Tigers are full of masters in the class, and Gu Yuzhou's chess skills are superb and he has won one victory after another. At only 10 years old, he passed the amateur 5-dan promotion exam with his superb chess skills. Gu Yuzhou is comfortable in the world of Go, but he is also not relaxed in his studies, whether it is Chinese, mathematics or English, he can concentrate on interacting with the teacher in class.
Especially in mathematics, he can immediately find two or three solutions to the new question type that the teacher just taught, and he is always the first to get a perfect score in every math test. When he was in the fifth grade, the school organized an Olympiad training, and Gu Yuzhou participated as a top student.
Olympiad mathematics is the abbreviation of Olympiad mathematics, the pursuit of higher, faster, stronger, flexible and changeable, fully demonstrates the beauty of mathematics. Gu Yuzhou showed outstanding talent and profound mathematical skills in the Olympiad training.
Gu Yuzhou's sensitivity to numbers made him find fun in the world of Olympiad mathematics, and every number was as vivid and interesting as an elf in front of his eyes. Every time he solves a problem, he feels an indescribable sense of accomplishment.
In just one semester of study, his grades ranked first in the school, a big step ahead of other students who have been studying Olympiad mathematics since the first and second grades. At the end of the fifth grade, he signed up for the city's math Olympiad and won the highest score in one fell swoop, and the name of this "little prodigy" has spread throughout the city ever since.
However, he looked indifferent, not realizing that there were already some eager eyes staring at him behind him. Soon after the results of the competition were announced, Shuren International sent him an invitation through the school, hoping that he could go directly to the first year of junior high school.
Gu Yuzhou, the darling of Shuren International School. This well-known private middle school in Nanjing has won unanimous praise from parents for its strict merit-based admission policy. Whenever the school promotion season comes, countless parents come with their children's honor books and come to participate in the selection with great anticipation.
However, Gu Yuzhou was admitted to the school on his own initiative and skipped the sixth grade in the process. For the parents of Qixia District, he has undoubtedly become "someone else's child".
Gu Yuzhou's success is not accidental, his love for programming has opened up a whole new world. His story teaches us that if you dare to pursue your dreams, you can stand out from the competition, even at a young age.
Shuren International School lives up to its name, and the selected students are the best in each school. And Gu Yuzhou's addition also added a touch of bright color to this school.
Gu Yuzhou seems to have been overwhelmed, he has successfully integrated into the new environment, and has continued to give full play to his mathematical advantages in junior high school, and his grades have always been among the best. At the end of school one day, the head teacher asked him and several other top math students to stay, originally to select them to participate in the school's information technology competition class.
Although Gu Yuzhou didn't know much about informatics, this opportunity gave him the opportunity to get in touch with programming and stimulated his interest.
With the help and support of his family, Gu Yuzhou began to get in touch with computer programming. The teachers of the Informatics Competition Interest Class used C language, C++, functions and algorithms to help him get started step by step.
However, due to the high pressure of coursework in junior high school, only one information competition class can be arranged per week. Some of the content is explained in a rough way, which may be difficult for students with a weak foundation to understand.
However, Gu Yuzhou is very focused on learning, gets started quickly, and is able to solve many problems quickly. In the National Informatics Olympiad in April 2009, the fledgling Gu Yuzhou calmly responded to the battle, and successfully won the first prize in the popularization group with his solid programming skills and stable mentality.
Although his results were quite good among most of the players in junior high school, he was very happy with it.
Gu Yuzhou has a unique vision and perseverance in the field of informatics, and is always passionate about challenges. When he first came into contact with informatics, he looked beyond the knowledge level of the general public, and was unwilling to be satisfied with the basic teaching content.
He realized that only by expanding and strengthening could he truly improve himself. Therefore, he decided to participate in the summer camp of informatics organized by the province and compete with other contestants who won prizes in the NOIP competition.
Although the competition was full of challenges, Gu Yuzhou still actively coped with it, insisted on drilling into difficult problems, and constantly worked hard to improve his skills.
There are two groups in the competition, one is the popularization group headed by Gu Yuzhou, which is mainly for novices and junior high school students. The other is the master group, which is mainly for advanced players, most of whom are high school students.
In the popularization category, even the highest level players may be easily defeated in the expert category. Gu Yuzhou's current level can be said to be quite ordinary in the popularization group.
However, despite this, he still felt some peace of mind due to the age gap. However, all this changed after the appearance of one person. This person is a boy with a flat head and glasses, and he attracts most people's attention as soon as he appears.
He was ordinary-looking, not tall, and had a very honest smile. Gu Yuzhou looked at the people around him curiously, and their eyes showed a look that was almost adoring.
Jia Zhipeng, don't you know him? "Jia Zhipeng? "That's right, it's that big bull from Nanwai, who won the gold medal in the national competition in the second year of junior high school this year! "The second year of junior high school? Isn't that about our age?
It is said that this national competition is NOI, the National Youth Informatics Olympiad. Although there is only one letter different from the noip that Gu Yuzhou participated in, the gold content is very different.
For example, NOIP is like a league in each province, which is equivalent to a competition in the province. The NOI is an elite competition selected from the provincial competitions, and the awards awarded are national.
In other words, if you win the grand prize in NOIP, the high school entrance examination may add points at its discretion, but it will only make you a little closer to the high school of the centrifuge. But if you win the grand prize in NOI, congratulations, the C9 school will soon be making a deposit.
Who wouldn't want to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go toe-to-toe with this wonderful peer? When Gu Yuzhou learned of Jia Zhipeng's achievements, a fighting spirit spontaneously emerged.
In the sharing session of the summer camp, Jia Zhipeng talked about his various experiences in the informatics competition, as well as the interesting process of solving problems, and even shared some unique question types.
This made Gu Yuzhou realize that his previous understanding of this discipline was really shallow. It turns out that informatics contains such a wealth of content and mysteries. After the summer camp, Gu Yuzhou couldn't wait to ask his father to take him to the bookstore to buy books, register an account on the competition**, and start to practice the questions.
His passion for studying informatics was rekindled, and he found the charm of this discipline endless, with algorithms, objects, and models ......When you dig deeper, you realize that they are wonderful.