In a tiny bedroom in a small city, Liu Tong, a young girl, spent four years after graduating from college
This is not an ordinary story, but a story about how a girl is trapped by the obsession with her academic qualifications and how she struggles in the whirlpool of graduate school entrance examinations. In the past five years, Liu Tong's life has been confined to a space of 10 square meters, but her dreams and challenges have gone far beyond the boundaries of this space.
Liu Tong's life path is full of ups and downs and challenges, which can be summed up in seven tragedies:
1.Obsessed with academic qualifications and proving yourself:
Liu Tong grew up in the shadow of her grandparents, and her uncle was a graduate of a top prestigious university who died young. This kind of family background makes Liu Tong have an unusual obsession with famous schools and academic qualifications. She longed to prove her worth to her family through her studies and academic qualifications, but this obsession gradually turned into a constraint on her.
2.Information Cocoon Room:
When Liu Tong was choosing a school and major, she lacked the right information and guidance due to her family background and geographical limitations. From volunteering for the college entrance examination to choosing a major for the graduate school entrance examination, her decisions were mostly based on limited information and intuition, rather than full understanding and reasonable planning, which led to subsequent difficulties.
3.Improper learning methods and self-motivation
Convinced that success can be achieved through extreme effort and self-sacrifice, she has adopted strict study arrangements, such as not taking breaks for hours, not going to the toilet, and even using self-punishment to force herself to study. She focuses too much on the length of time and ignores the importance of learning efficiency and methodology. The long period of excessive study not only failed to improve her grades, but instead led to physical and mental exhaustion, and even serious psychological problems.
Liu Tong fell deeper and deeper into the quagmire of self-emotion, always believing that as long as he worked hard enough, he could succeed, but he did not realize that success could not be achieved by hard work alone. She overlooked the importance of adjusting test preparation strategies, really efficient study methods, and mental health. This perseverance and self-motivation of hers instead became a stumbling block on her way to success, preventing her from effectively coping with the challenges of the exam.
Not having a proper preparation strategy based on your actual situation has led to a series of failed exams.
Liu Tong's experience reflects the common problems that many test takers face when facing public performance: over-reliance on effort and neglect of the importance of methods and strategies, as well as incorrect assessment of the nature of the exam and the actual situation of the individual. These misunderstandings and wrong methods eventually led to her frustration and loss on the road to the entrance examination.
Liu Tong's story is not only about personal challenges and dilemmas, but also about social realities and the education system. Her experience reveals the excessive pursuit of academic qualifications, the influence of family and social environment on individual choices, and the problems of information asymmetry and unequal educational resources. Liu Tong's story reminds us that when faced with challenges and choices, we need to have a more comprehensive and rational cognition, and a more flexible and diverse way of thinking.
Through Liu Tong's story, we can see that personal growth and choices should not be limited by academic qualifications and social preset paths, but should plan for the future according to one's own interests and abilities. At the same time, society and education systems need to provide more diverse support and guidance to help young people better understand themselves and make choices that are right for them.
In this era of change and challenge, each of us needs to have the courage to face reality, have the wisdom to make choices, keep learning and growing, and finally find our own path. Liu Tong's story may not be over yet, but it has brought us profound inspiration and thinking.
*: The same is true for a bunch.