Personal experience: What have I gained from three universities' counterattacks on 985 prestigious schools?

This is an inspirational story of three children admitted to the top 20 985 masters.

1. The heavy price of rebellion: two years of decadence in three universities.

High school is the best time to change the fate of children in ordinary families. Like most children, my rebellious period of youth has come quietly in recent years: willfulness, impulsiveness, weariness of learning ... all the words related to bad children seem to be closely related to me. Until now, I don't understand what I was thinking in those two years.

I think the so-called growth is probably that when I look back, I can't help slapping myself.

Of course, I also paid a heavy price for this-I stayed in a university with three universities for two years.

I didn't wake up immediately when I was a freshman, but I was liberated after a long period of depression, so until now I can still remember the key words of that year: shopping, selfie, Taobao, staying up late and variety show. ...

Sophomore who looks more mature than now.

Actually, as far as study is concerned, I'm not bad at all. From primary school to high school, I won the first place in many exams, worked as a monitor and won numerous awards. Including the key high schools in my city at that time, I was admitted by myself. Even in my freshman year, I only paid 30% of my energy. I still got a scholarship, passed CET-4 and CET-6 at one time, and got the vocational skill certificate exam. Therefore, I have never doubted my IQ and EQ.

In my parents' words, there is something wrong with "thinking" (way of thinking). Looking back now, the root of the problem lies in:

Ignorance (escape, not seriously thinking about your future), so fearless and unaware of the crisis;

I don't plan my life, I'm confused, I don't know what I want, even if I know what I want, there is no correct way;

At the same time, I didn't achieve remarkable results, so I didn't have the stimulation of a sense of accomplishment.

I think this is also the actual situation of many ordinary college students.

2. Wake up on the journey: know yourself, think about life and reshape values.

In my sophomore year, I reached a critical point in my life. I began to question my life and everything around me. But I don't know how to do it, because in three schools, the learning atmosphere is really worrying, and libraries and the like have to be filled with CET-4 and CET-6 exams or final exams.

But there is a phenomenon, which I still think is the advantage of applied universities, that is, entrepreneurship. At that time, several students around me had been opening restaurants, Taobao and "online celebrity shops" in Weibo since freshman year, and many people were doing tutoring or internships during the summer vacation (only the internship units were in third-and fourth-tier cities close to home).

Under the influence of this environment, I began to work as a part-time tour guide on weekends and winter and summer vacations from my sophomore year (because I majored in tourism management at that time, I naturally felt that I should be a tour guide and start a travel agency), starting in the province, going outside the province and then going abroad.

Engshi Great Canyon

Dali, Yunnan

Qiandaohu, Zhejiang

Gulangyu/Gulangyu

Sanlitun in Beijing

Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain, Jilin Province

Nanjing

Until my junior year, I have been to many places, seen many landscapes and seen many worlds in the past two years. It is during the journey that I re-examine myself, think about life and break the terrible values before.

Sao Paulo memorial archway in Macao

ocean park

Thailand Grand Palace

Phuket

......

The destination of this trip is Xiamen, which is Xiamen University. Looking at the phoenix-blooming campus, the quaint Jiageng-style buildings and the students riding bicycles on the shady avenue with backpacks, they feel that they have gone to a "fake" university.

It was at that moment that I made up my mind-Xiamen University, I must come here to study for a master's degree.

In the winding fields of Xiamen University, I secretly made up my mind.

3. Try to live a beautiful life: the process is bitter and the aftertaste is sweet.

After returning to school, with the encouragement and support of my family, I settled down and concentrated on preparing for graduate students. Of course, although the whole process is not painful, it is very painful.

During the six months of preparing for the exam, I feel that I have begun to settle down. Self-discipline, concentration, deep thinking and persistence are all good qualities I have again.

At that time, for preparing lessons, my roommate and I cut our long hair short. Later, we were admitted to Xiamen University and became classmates again.

I lived up to expectations and came to the School of Journalism and Communication of Xiamen University.

Fortunately, I met a very fair, strict and kind tutor, who is very famous in the domestic advertising industry.

A group photo of several graduates of our school with their tutors.

Two years as a graduate student is the most fulfilling and enjoyable journey in my life: no matter brainstorming in the coffee shop until late at night (every college of Xiamen University has a coffee shop for students to discuss and study), classroom demonstrations, in-depth research at weekly regular meetings, and scientific research projects I personally participated in, well-known advertising companies/public relations companies in the north have left traces.

Graduation photo, on the first string court of Xiamen University.

During that time, I thought it was good to live hard!

What did 4.985 bring me?

There are two sources of master's degree in 985 universities: exemption from examination and unified examination. So many candidates for the unified examination are ordinary (undergraduate schools), and several of my classmates come from three schools like me. In addition, I have a high school classmate who was admitted to Nanjing University from a higher vocational college. Therefore, the personal experience is: grasp several key nodes in life, and change is not so far away.

Of course, I also clearly feel the academic differences between the candidates for the unified examination and the students who are exempt from the examination: many students who are exempt from the examination have mastered several research methods at the undergraduate level, and even published their own articles in some core journals. I think this is also the fundamental reason why many masters/doctors of famous schools look at "birth" now. It is not just the superficial "prestigious school halo" that everyone discusses.

However, I also saw the characteristics of non-985/2 1 1 graduate students: love to toss (constantly internship in various well-known enterprises) and play (photography, painting, fitness, etc.). ), high emotional intelligence, self-packaging (especially all kinds of social software are slippery), strong communication skills, initiative and so on. These characteristics make them very popular in school recruitment, and several students hold several well-paid famous enterprise offer.

Three good habits of lifelong benefit developed during graduate school are:

Insist on operating two official WeChat accounts (one of which currently has a user of 145W).

Finish reading a book every week.

Insist on learning English

Exercise every 2-3 days.

So my default study time is extended to 10- 1 1 at night. Because of the constant switching between study and fitness, I will not feel tired, but will benefit a lot.

A good life is always short. I rushed into the school and shuttled through the campus job fairs of major enterprises, probably because of my rich practical experience and good internship units. At the end of the autumn school recruitment, I was holding five offer from famous enterprises (including the world's top 500 real estate companies with relatively high salaries and serious overtime work, as well as the bosses of some domestic industries ...). At that moment, I felt that it was a wonderful thing to change my life.

Come back from the school recruitment interview

Two days ago, I saw the news on the internet that "985 graduated without pancakes and earned more", which pushed 985 to the forefront. I don't want to comment on such an absurd event, because it is meaningless. However, I want to tell you that 985 can only give you more opportunities and a better platform, and what really keeps you going must be your way of thinking, excellent quality and the concept of lifelong learning.

In this way, * * * encouraged.