A few years ago, I saw a reading meeting of this book on the Internet, hosted by Bai Yansong, and discussed the two largest student groups in the context of mass education. As a graduating double non-graduate master's degree, I also have a deep experience.
Recently, I stayed up late and read the whole book at a pace of about one chapter a day.
The overall feeling after reading it is very realistic, very heart-wrenching, and I also empathize with the life situation of each student in the book.
As an only child in the north, I feel lonely and helpless, although my parents are pampered, but as a member of the vast majority of ordinary families, the limitations of the original family are still the biggest confinement for me after graduation.
Facing the pressure of graduation: ** looking for a job, taking the public examination, taking the exam, urging the family to get married, earning money to buy a house, getting married and having children. Almost everyone has to complete their life mission step by step.
After more than 10 years of exam-oriented education, I have learned how to choose the most cost-effective in the balance of reality, but I have not learned how to establish a life plan in a complicated environment, and dialectically look at the adaptability of my ability and society. I only see the good in the distance, but I don't know if that direction is right or not.
In the face of the uncertainty of the future, everyone has no way out, but they all have to go, and a diploma in exchange for suppressing youth seems to be just a diploma now. After three years of postgraduate study, in the end, I still have to work and take the public examination.
In the context of zero offers in the autumn of the previous year, and the failure of the national and provincial examinations, I also once doubted the meaning of my schooling, doubted my ability, and even felt that I was useless and failed.
The experience of the previous graduate school entrance examination, and the preparation of the public examination now. Although I am working hard to prepare every day, I don't know what I want to do or what I can do, I only know that the current depreciation of academic qualifications and the economic recession are the end of the universe when entering the system is the end of the universe. With the decline in the number of graduate students and the skyrocketing number of public exams this year, it seems that every choice I make is at the top of the forefront of the times, and there is no ease at all.
It seems that only in the face of the real age has the vast majority of people really woken up and recognized whether they are suitable to continue to study for a doctorate and engage in academics.
However, it is undeniable that although the dragonfly education in the ivory tower is decoupled from social employment, it has played a key role in changing self-perception and attitude towards life.
In the book, I have seen a lot from the perspective of the author's teacher, who have similar family experiences to me, and even more difficult environmental conditions than me, their growth paths and life choices, although the life experience in the changing times is impossible to repeat, but it does play a role in learning from me during the confused period of graduation. Instead of envying the past, it is better to seize the present, and at the critical turning point of life, you need to have rational judgment and also have the courage to take the first step. Life is wild, the road ahead is still very long, not to be confused by the momentary gains and losses, nor to be confused by the future to lose the direction of progress, in the future, to regain strength, towards the goal in their hearts, boldly do, perhaps this nearly 20 years of education background, handed to me the greatest courage.