About the question of whether to take the postgraduate entrance examination. .

The word "postgraduate entrance examination" surrounds each of us. The biggest advertisement in the school poster column must be for the postgraduate entrance examination training class. "Blow and Live"; the most popular books sold in the school bookstore must be postgraduate entrance examination tutoring books; whenever the postgraduate entrance examination is approaching, the study rooms and libraries in the school must be "occupied" by students taking the postgraduate entrance examination for a long time; students often communicate with each other The conversation was also "Do you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination or not? Where do you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination?", as if not wanting to take the postgraduate entrance examination means that you are not pursuing it.

When it comes time to register for the postgraduate entrance examination, quite a number of students in each class have signed up. When asked why they chose to take the postgraduate entrance examination, the answers are generally: "Everyone takes the postgraduate entrance examination" and "Going to college is to go to graduate school." , "It's hard to find a job, you can only go to graduate school to strive for a good development", "You can find a better job by going to graduate school", "I want to go to graduate school to further your studies and study professional knowledge", "I have always had good grades, so I don't want to go to graduate school. What a pity”, “My parents asked me to take the postgraduate entrance examination”.

First of all, I solved the misunderstandings of some students one by one.

Misunderstanding 1. “Everyone is taking the postgraduate entrance examination, and so am I.”

“Herd mentality” is the psychological characteristic of most people, just like what Ge You said in the advertisement, “Where are you from?” Wherever I go, I just believe in the masses." On the street, everyone likes to go to crowded places; at a train station, even if you don’t know where the entrance is, as long as you follow the flow, you usually won’t go wrong; when organizing class activities, you often choose other classes Playing in places I’ve been to. Because "if you follow everyone, you will not go wrong." In many cases, "I will go wherever there are more people" is a very reasonable way of "choosing" because based on probability, the path chosen by most people has a very high probability of being the correct path. It seems that according to this statement, "Everyone is taking the postgraduate entrance examination, so I will take the postgraduate entrance examination" is a very reasonable idea, but this is not actually the case, because there are too many differences between the postgraduate entrance examination and the examples cited above.

First of all, the purpose is different. When shopping, most people's purpose is to "watch the excitement". The more people there are, the busier the place will be. At the train station, almost everyone's goal is to "enter the station", so it is definitely right to follow everyone; Class Everyone’s goal in doing activities is to “have fun”, and the places chosen by other classes must be fun. But the postgraduate entrance examination is different. What is the purpose of the postgraduate entrance examination? Some people say that it is "successfully studying for postgraduate studies". Note that "study for postgraduate studies" is just a process, not a purpose, because you cannot "study for postgraduate studies" all your life, so the purpose of "study for postgraduate studies" is the purpose of "taking postgraduate entrance examinations". Obviously, different students have different purposes for taking the postgraduate entrance examination: some students do it to get a higher degree, to bring glory to their ancestors and show off their family; some students do it to study for postgraduate school or Ph.D., and continue to learn professional knowledge in depth; Some students want to escape employment pressure, get a higher diploma, and find a better job; some students want to take cross-professional postgraduate entrance examinations and study the majors they are interested in; some students want to be admitted to prestigious schools from ordinary universities. Fulfill your "dream of a famous school". It seems that everyone's common goal is to "take the postgraduate entrance examination", but in fact everyone has their own different goals. If you join the army of taking the postgraduate entrance examination without your own clear goals, you will undoubtedly become a member of the army of "group blind action" One member.

Secondly, the consequences of choosing the wrong route are different. There are people on the street who take advantage of everyone's herd mentality to look for child care to support the scene. If you are attracted by child care but find it not interesting, you will probably go to other places. Occasionally, there will be temporary arrangements at the train station. You can do whatever you want. After Daliu arrived at his destination, he discovered that those people were actually exiting the station. At worst, he would have to go back and find the entrance again. After choosing other classes, he chose the active route, only to find that the students in other classes were too low-level and incompatible with your taste. Hobbies, the big deal is that I am not happy this time, so there is no big loss. But the postgraduate entrance examination is different. If you fail the postgraduate entrance examination, the prime time for employment has passed, and it will be very difficult to find a suitable job. Even if you succeed in the postgraduate entrance examination, you will find that postgraduate life is not what you imagined after taking the postgraduate entrance examination. There are various reasons. As a result, the development of graduate students after graduation is not as good as that of students who did not go to graduate school. Once you choose the wrong path to take the postgraduate entrance examination, you cannot go back.

The biggest advantage of following the herd is that you don’t have to take responsibility, and you don’t have to worry about the consequences of choosing the wrong path, because “at worst, everyone will die together.”

"Mortality rate" is just a statistical concept. For each of us, the mortality rate is only 0% and 100%. Therefore, before deciding to follow the herd, you need to weigh whether this matter is "worth it."

When deciding whether to take the postgraduate entrance examination, you must not have the idea of ????"everyone takes the postgraduate entrance examination, and I will take the postgraduate entrance examination too". Whether you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination or not, please "give me a reason first!" I found the reason. , look further down.

Misunderstanding 2. “The purpose of going to college is to go to graduate school.”

Many students have set the goal of taking the postgraduate entrance examination from the beginning of their freshman year. The reason is very simple: “The purpose of going to elementary school is to go to graduate school.” Junior high school, the purpose of going to junior high school is to go to high school, the purpose of going to high school is to go to college, and of course you have to go to graduate school when you go to college." "I have always had good grades, it would be a pity not to go to graduate school." In the minds of these students, human progress Just keep taking exams. There is a widely circulated joke on the Internet that reflects this phenomenon: "The one above the bachelor's degree is the master's degree, the one above the master's degree is the doctorate, and the one above the doctorate is the postdoc. What about the postdoc? If you are brave enough, study 2 After studying for 2 years, you will become a warrior, after studying for 5 years, you will become a warrior, and after studying for 7 years, you will become a martyr. What happens after the martyrdom? . Girls who are willing to continue studying after graduation have the opportunity to pass - Athena."

Teacher Zhu from Rupeng.com once told a true story. He knew a person who was very good at studying. He went to college, took the master's degree, and took the Ph.D. exam all smoothly, and he passed the exam again after graduation. He passed the Judicial Examination (a very difficult exam), and then found that he had "nothing to pass" and lost his goal. In the end, I had no choice but to work in a court. I found that I could not adapt to the actual work. I could not find the feeling of elation that I had during exams. I had to deal with many things that I did not want to deal with every day. In the end, I suffered from schizophrenia and entered a mental hospital.

The goal of going to college is not just the so-called "way out" of "taking the postgraduate entrance examination". According to strict distinction, postgraduate students are set up for those who are interested in engaging in in-depth theoretical knowledge research in this major. The purpose of their training is to be "researchers" or even "scientists". However, due to reasons such as university enrollment expansion and unreasonable national industrial results, the employment rate and employment quality of college students have seriously declined. The "graduate student enrollment expansion" can temporarily "quench thirst" by improving the so-called "employment rate." At the same time, some people are motivated by Different purposes also want to take advantage of the "graduate student enrollment expansion" to make a fortune, so they use their voice in society and the media to advocate that "it is better to take the postgraduate entrance examination after undergraduate graduation." This makes many students think that "going to college is just a matter of To go to graduate school.”

Students may have seen that I added double quotation marks to the word "way out" above. Indeed, postgraduate entrance examination is not the "way out" for undergraduates, because "postgraduate entrance examination and postgraduate study" are just processes, not The way out, unless you want to take exams all your life, with the goal of getting an "Athena graduate degree" before you die, the real goal of all the processes is to "work, make money, marry a wife, have children, support two elderly people, buy a house, and buy a house." Buying a car, buying gas, buying noodles...buying a grave", everything you do should be planned around this ultimate goal.

Don’t regard “postgraduate entrance examination” as the only way out, consider your own situation, consider the ultimate goal of “working and making money”, and make your own decision.

Misunderstanding 3: “It’s hard to find a job now, so you can only study for a postgraduate degree to strive for a good development”

This is the reason why a considerable number of students decide to take the postgraduate entrance examination because they heard that the job after graduation is not good. They are afraid of being "unemployed after graduation", so they place their hopes on further improving their abilities through graduate school; some students only find out in their senior year that they do not have the skills needed to find a job, and are afraid of finding a job. Graduate students can gain two or three more years of study, and they must study hard."

Is it really so hard to find a job now? Are job opportunities really that few? I dare not comment on other majors. Most of the students reading this article may be engaged in IT-related jobs after graduation. According to my experience over the years, many IT companies have a "talent shortage" phenomenon. , that is, many positions are vacant for a long time and cannot recruit people. Some students heard this and wondered, "How can there be a shortage of people? So many students graduate every year?" This sentence is very hurtful and scolding, but I have to say, "Companies do not recruit beggars, they do not recruit casually. Just one cat or dog can make up the number; what a company wants to recruit is capable people who can help it make money.”

Are the requirements for students in companies too high? Let’s listen to the comments of corporate recruiters:

“The recruitment notice was sent out, and the mailbox was quickly flooded with resumes. However, most of the resumes only contained personal information, professional course settings, and information from elementary school. The college entrance examination resume is followed by an enthusiastic, nonsense, but empty cover letter. It seems that these thousands of resumes are just like one person's resume, without any characteristics of their own. In addition to meeting the "2010 fresh graduates" mentioned in our recruitment notice, what other conditions do he meet?"

"A student came to apply for a network administrator position, and I asked him if a computer could connect to the Internet. What are the possible problems and how do you troubleshoot them? The classmate hesitated for a long time and didn't even say a complete sentence, "Maybe the network cable is broken."

“A student came to apply for a job as a software engineer. I asked him to write a console program that prints diamond shapes. This is the simplest program in the first few pages of the C language textbook. He was stunned for a long time and couldn’t write a line of code. When asked how he passed the C language exam, his answer was simply 'just passed it'!"

In fact, the company does not have high requirements for graduates. For example, for students in software development positions, the requirements in the company are "a sense of programming, strong hands-on ability, and eager to learn." If you understand this framework or that framework, as long as you have a "feeling for programming, have strong hands-on skills, and are eager to learn," those tools, languages, and framework companies can master them with just a little training. "Have a feel for programming, have strong hands-on skills, and are eager to learn." It is a quality that only smart students can have. As long as their IQ is normal and they usually do more hands-on work and write more programs, it is not difficult at all to become "a feeling of programming, strong hands-on ability, and eager to learn". But the actual situation is that, looking at a class of 50 students, 10 people are not interested in learning at all, 10 people are not interested in this major at all, 10 people are confused, 10 people only know how to study, and 10 people are not interested in studying at all. Five people will learn two pages of C language today, two pages of Java tomorrow, and two hacking techniques the day after tomorrow. It would be pretty good if only two or three of them can really work hard and write more programs.

There is a joke that everyone has heard: Two people were walking in the forest, and suddenly a big tiger appeared. One of them hurriedly bent down to tie his shoelaces.

Another person asked: "What shoelaces are you tying? Can you still outrun a tiger?"

This person said: "I can outrun a tiger." Ah. But I just need to outrun you!"

It is difficult to be among the top three in the class, but it is very easy to be among the two or three people chosen by the company. Because most people don't know how to "do more hands-on work and write more programs", but you only need to "do more hands-on work and write more programs". Some students will ask, "Everyone in our class has read this article. Doesn't it mean that they have all worked hard to compete with me, and I have no advantage?" The students think too highly of me, and I don't have that much energy. , I am not more attractive to my classmates than games. Many of your classmates will not read my article at all. Even if someone does, they will only glance at it casually, and very few will read this article carefully. After reading this article carefully and believing in the principles I said and insisting on following them for a long time, I am very happy.

So those students who are afraid that it will be difficult to find a job and want to avoid taking the postgraduate entrance examination need not worry. As long as you work a little harder than the classmates around you, you can easily meet the company's requirements for fresh graduates. . Those students who are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors don’t have to worry. They can just settle down and use the remaining six months to a year to focus on strengthening themselves. Those who want to engage in programming must choose the language they are most familiar with. Practice more and write more. Students who want to engage in network management will sign up for a Cisco training class to practice their practical skills. Students who want to engage in embedded development will get a development board to implement commonly used embedded functions... I believe that I will reach the enterprise level in half a year. Asking for it was a breeze.

If you are just worried that it will be difficult to find a job and are taking the postgraduate entrance examination, you don’t need to read any further. Just close this page and go “tying your shoes”.

Misunderstanding 4: "My parents asked me to take the postgraduate entrance examination"

Some college students now make people feel very pitiful. They have been arranged by their parents since they were young, such as what to eat for breakfast, what clothes to buy, and when school is over. Where to go to play, what to do on the weekends, which primary school to go to, which middle school to go to, whether to study liberal arts or science, which university to apply for, which major to take... Everything depends on the parents.

When we were young, our parents were superhuman in our minds, knowing everything and being able to do anything. But as you grow up, your parents are getting older. One day, they will lose their knowledge, experience, and judgment. Not as good as you in the meeting. Parents always love their children, and the original intention of all decisions they make is to benefit their children, but sometimes their good intentions can lead to bad things.

A friend I know who is studying for a master's degree said that when his parents were planning his future, they said that there was no "educated" person in his family for several generations, and they hoped that he would work hard and take more exams. No matter how high you are, your mother and I will fully support your education. We want to bring glory to our ancestors!" Poor parents in the world, They hope that their children will become high-status people so that they can say "Our child is a postdoc!" in the future. They don't even know that "a postdoc is actually a doctorate who can't find a job, not a higher degree than a doctorate." How can we listen to their arrangements?

Parents gave us life and provided for us to grow up and go to school. They are always worthy of our respect and filial piety. However, their ideas are not always right. If you don’t judge for yourself, you just listen to them. , sooner or later they will be harmed by their good intentions.

There is a very old documentary called "The Story of the Fox". It tells a survival law in nature: a litter of little foxes is born and grows up under the care of the old fox. The little foxes gradually grow up. He already looks as tall as his parents. The old fox suddenly changed his face and drove the little fox out. The little fox who was kicked out of the house was so pitiful and sad that he did not want to leave. He returned to the door again and again. However, the old fox not only refused to let the little fox in, but instead drove the little fox away by "biting like crazy". From then on, the little foxes were helpless and alone, wandering around under the coercion of hunger, natural enemies and hunters. After many tests, the little fox finally gained the ability to survive in harsh conditions. Foxes understand this truth, but what about us humans?

Some parents understand this truth and cultivate their children's ability to do things and think independently from a very young age. Parents do not interfere easily with their children and respect their own wishes to the greatest extent, so that they can grow up in this environment. Children can often become strong men in society. But unfortunately, most parents do not understand this truth. As long as they can still move, they will do their best to create conditions, choose paths, and clear obstacles for their children, slowly cultivating a group of people who live without their parents. Children who are at a loss and have no ability to survive.

If your parents are still trying their best to make decisions for you, then please tell your parents with respect: "Dad! Mom! Thank you for everything you have done for me since I was a child. Now I have grown up When I get older, I have to learn to make my own decisions. I will move in the direction of progress. Don't worry about me. I will decide by myself whether to take the postgraduate entrance examination. I will seriously consider the suggestions you give me. I will find my own. Lu, no matter what decision I make, I will be a good child. I will grow up to be a capable child, and then be able to be filial to you and support you!"

Whether it is about whether to take the postgraduate entrance examination or other things in the future, take your parents’ advice as a reference from a friend or an elder, and then make the final decision yourself!

Misunderstanding 5: "Many jobs require a master's degree, and when you are looking for a job, there are many masters everywhere."

Many students have heard similar rumors: Nowadays, when looking for a job, most of them have a master's degree. Branches all require a master's degree or above, and even if they only require a bachelor's degree, there will be many master's students applying for jobs. We "small students" don't have any confidence in front of them. How can we do without graduate school.

"Most companies require a master's degree or above" is a conclusion drawn with obvious bias. Many students sighed after seeing the recruitment information posted on the "Employment Information" of Rupeng.com. Why do these companies require a master's degree?" But in fact, according to rational statistics, less than 10% of the positions require a master's degree or above.

After analysis, it can be easily found that companies or positions that require master's degree or above generally have the following characteristics: units with national and Chinese prefixes, such as China Mobile, State Grid, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; state agencies and institutions, such as provinces Public Security Department, Red Cross Society; universities and scientific research institutions. Due to reasons that are well-known but not convenient to explain here (fear of being cheated), the waste of talents in national prefixes, Chinese prefixes, state agencies, and public institutions is very serious. It is not uncommon to recruit doctoral students to go to the door, but This is a fact. When they recruit, they must try their best to recruit highly educated people so that they can achieve certain goals. Due to special reasons, universities and scientific research institutions must also recruit highly educated people. If you want to work in national or Chinese prefixes, state agencies, public institutions, universities, or scientific research institutions, you must have a high degree of education. Otherwise, no matter how capable you are, it will be useless. Without that diploma, everything will be in vain.

In fact, there are other positions that are often marked with "master's degree", that is, the "research institutes" of some companies, such as Microsoft Research Asia, IBM Research, etc. These positions usually carry out some For research on theory and technology in cutting-edge fields, since the depth of knowledge of most undergraduates does not meet the requirements of these positions, it is very reasonable for these companies to require master's and doctoral degrees. At the same time, these positions are generally filled by master's and doctoral students from some prestigious universities. occupied. But nothing is absolute. For example, Microsoft Research Asia also has outstanding personnel with bachelor's and junior college degrees.

Except for this small number of positions that require a master's degree or above, most positions only require a bachelor's degree or a junior college degree. The reason is very simple. The purpose of recruiting employees is to let employees help the company make money. , so it doesn’t matter whether you have a bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree for a company. Even if all the people in the company have PhDs, as long as they don’t make any money, the company will still go bankrupt. The company's original intention of recruiting some highly educated people is to hope that they can do things that others "probably" can't do, that's all. As long as you have the ability and can bring income to the company, they don't care what your academic qualifications are.

“There will also be many master’s students applying for jobs in front of jobs that require a bachelor’s degree.” This is a fact, and it is also the reason why many students lack confidence at job fairs. The reason is also very simple. In order to increase the so-called "employment rate" of undergraduates and relieve employment pressure, the number of graduate students has been expanded again and again. Sooner or later, these graduate students will still enter the job market after graduation, so they will collide with the undergraduates who graduated at that time. Some classmates will say: "If I have an undergraduate and a bunch of graduate students earning the same position, I will definitely be eliminated." This worry is completely unnecessary. The reasons are as follows: First of all, when companies recruit, they will control the proportion of people with different academic qualifications. For example, they recruit 20% of master's students, 70% of undergraduates, and 10% of junior college students. Therefore, there is no direct competition between people with different academic qualifications. Those who compete with you are still those undergraduates; secondly, the quality of many master's degree graduates has also dropped greatly. I have interviewed many master's graduates and asked them what projects they have done. In the end, the ones who hesitated and said they were doing master's thesis. The so-called project, and it was obviously copied from someone else's, asked him some basic knowledge of computers, but he couldn't even answer a simple question like "the difference between a queue and a stack." When asked about his feelings about graduate school, he said, "I I feel the same way as many of my classmates, I regret going to graduate school.” After hearing this, are you still afraid of competing with these master’s students?

Therefore, if you want to make a living in GuoZiZi, ZhongZiZi, a state agency, an institution, a university, or a scientific research institution, you should go for a higher education, and you should also consider other aspects as well. To make up for it; if you want to work in a research institute of a large international company, try to get a higher degree, and don’t just have an academic degree, but also work harder in terms of research ability and practical ability. These companies rely on a You earn a living penny by penny, and if you don't have the ability to bring them an income that matches your position, they won't want you even if you become a "Golden Saint."