Reminiscing about my alma mater - my Shanxi University

At the age of 18, my parents and I stood at the intersection of Xuefu Street and Wucheng with our suitcases in tow. Across the road were neat buildings with red tile roofs like rolling hills, illuminated by the gorgeous clouds. Sparkling like magic. I thought silently in my heart, this is where I will spend four years of my youth! I will put the most unparalleled four years of youth in my life here!

It was September 6, 2012, my first day of registration at Shanxi University. In the years that followed, I passed by the Xuefu Street intersection countless times, and I never regained the original feeling. The reason is not surprising, because the first time I mistook the building opposite the school for the school building.

When I was a new student, I was greeted by a sophomore from the same department. She was gentle and beautiful. When she saw my admission information, she exclaimed "fellow". I almost burst into tears when I heard that, but I couldn't help it. Yu's parents were present, so he pretended to be stronger. The senior sister led me through various procedures and finally led me to the dormitory. Before I could sit down, she took out the neat bedding from the cabinet and prepared to make my bed. As an 18-year-old hot-blooded young man, I couldn't help but say something to my heart when I saw this. "Oh no, how can a man like me bother a girl to do anything?" So I asked my senior sister to let go and stand aside to admire my ability to clean up housework since I had lived on campus independently since high school. Regarding my performance, my parents present expressed their relief, and my senior sister said goodbye.

Shanxi University is located in Taiyuan. Before that, I didn’t have any firm ideals to come to Shanxi, but I just took it easy when filling out my application. Because I like pasta, I don’t want to go to the south; because I am in high school in Xi’an, I must go out of the province for college; because I don’t like megacities, I won’t go to Beijing. Calculating this, there are not many schools in the whole north that you can apply for.

Before coming to Taiyuan, I was worried about the environment here. It is said that there are many coal mines and the pollution is serious. So I stared at the environmental major on the admission notice, thinking that this was a perfect match! I recall the call of the great man in my ears, "Young people, go to the place where the motherland needs you most!"

But when I puffed up my chest and took a train starting with K and came here, I realized how many Considered.

After school started, I heard more than one teacher look back fondly on the past - I remember it was the first snow in 2002. When I was as young as you, I wore a white shirt and walked in the coal dust. The campus is full of clothes, and when you go home at night, you will become a gray shirt. If you have enough courage, if you insist on wearing it for one more day, it will become a black shirt the next night. However, all this began to change in 2008. In order to prepare for the Beijing Olympics, Shanxi vigorously combated coal mine pollution, which is why we have the blue sky and white clouds you see now. There is almost no smog all year round. Look at how many cities on the North China Plain can Do it?

This is the second time I realized the power of the Olympic spirit after watching the Olympic Games on TV in 2008. It turns out that when I look for a job after graduation, I not only have to face competition from peers majoring in environmental resources, but also extremely There may also be challenges from graduates of sports colleges. University is indeed a magical place.

Fortunately, teachers are far-sighted and have long noticed the severe employment situation. So, at the beginning of my freshman year, my young, senior-looking, heroic and dashing guidance counselor had high expectations for us, and at the same time, he took great care of us. In order to prevent us who had broken free from the shackles of high school from playing around and doing whatever we wanted, he asked We go to the college or playground for morning reading every morning, and go to the college for self-study in the evening. The class committee supervises sign-in and sign-out.

The practical significance of this strong policy has two sides. On the one hand, according to teachers, continuing the captive style of high school can help students find the familiar feeling of middle school, and then complete their studies in college relatively smoothly. transition. On the other hand, it strengthens the importance of learning in the colorful university life that is about to begin. However, things did not go as expected. When our class started college life with vigorous discipline, it was in obvious contrast with the freedom and colorfulness of students from other colleges. I remember that some students from other departments asked me, to the effect that "the same students" Twelve years, how can you show off? "

So in the strong public sentiment, the counselor calculated that 21 days should be enough. The seeds of habit have been sown in the hearts of the children. In order to ease the The students were so emotional that they declared the early self-study project bankrupt. But the counselor insisted on studying late at night and persisted for a whole year. Needless to say, inertia is quite a magical thing. If you don’t study in the evening during your sophomore year, you won’t be able to sleep well or eat well.

Generally speaking, universities are quite liberal. I remember that when I was a freshman, cars, horses and pedestrians were very slow, and network communication was also very slow. I didn't even buy a laptop, so every weekend I disappeared for an afternoon and went to an Internet cafe to surf the Internet.

There are a lot of people in the Internet cafe. In the front row, there are a group of people playing Dota in teams, wearing headphones and shouting. Behind them are a few people playing CS, smashing the keyboard from time to time. In front of the window not far away, there are people sitting There was a little girl, about the age of a middle school student, chatting with the boy on the screen while the video was on. Sometimes she was happily giggling, sometimes she was angry and heartbroken. Human beings' joys and sorrows are not the same. I just think they are noisy. It was noisy to the point where I listened to Jay focusing on writing his blog, and I had to endure the smell of cigarette smoke that never stopped. I hated cigarettes and was allergic to them since I was a child. Because my dad didn’t smoke, I grew up in a smoke-free environment. After weighing the two, out of consideration for protecting my bronchus, I decided to break up with the scumbag Internet cafe. I got my own computer in my sophomore year, and I never went to an Internet cafe again until I graduated.

One of the main reasons why I had free time to go to Internet cafes during my freshman year was that I didn’t join any clubs. To be more precise, I signed up for two clubs, but I didn’t go to them much.

I remember that in the first semester of my freshman year, after the National Day holiday, there was a huge "Hundred Recruitment Recruitment" event at Chumin Square. Oh boy, this had more projects than the circus, it was dazzling and dizzying. For someone like me who has difficulty choosing, it is simply a public execution. So, I successfully missed my favorite club and signed up for two at random like a coin toss. And during the first and second activities that followed, he looked at the so-called club activities from a distance. As a result of my inspection, I felt that a group of college students were playing a bunch of balloons and undifficult games with unknown intentions. It felt like they were just looking for a childhood in college. I didn't like it, so I left.

In fact, the deeper reason is that after I came to university and became a free man, I was instinctively wary of all binding organizations, especially when the price of such binding was considered meaningless to me. hour. This is true even in dormitories.

The dormitory is a four-person dormitory. Our dormitory is quite strange. We are all from provinces other than Shanxi. So we have just entered the university and are not familiar with the place. We don’t consciously hug together to keep warm. One time, a roommate accidentally said, "Let's start taking seats together in class tomorrow and go to the cafeteria to eat together!" After hearing this, I became furious on the spot and said, "If you want to form a small group, do it yourself." "Don't hold me back!" Throughout my freshman year, I was almost outside the organization. I left early and came home late, and didn't have much to say. In my junior year, during a late-night conversation in the dormitory, one of my roommates commented that I was "cold." , I don’t eat the fireworks of the world.” When I think about it, I’m not Liu Yifei, so don’t you just say that I’m “unhuman”!

The roommate’s comments are very fair. Because in my freshman year, I put most of my energy into one very important thing, which is "retreat and practice." Ahem, translated into adult language, it is, "knowing yourself." After entering the new environment of university, everything was comfortable and the years were quiet, but I fell into "long-term depression" without warning - I couldn't figure out, who am I? Why am I here? What am I going to do?

This is not an accident, but the result of eighteen years of accumulation. Before that, I was pushed along by the growth process and had no time to take care of it. I began to sort out my past, my childhood, my family, my temperament development, my gifted mission... This is a systematic project, consisting of two parts: "deconstruction" and "construction" , most of the deconstruction can be completed, but construction is a lifelong career.

So I threw myself into the library, looking for all possible answers. In order to block interference, I had no interest in clubs, some courses, or making friends. Hard work pays off. When spring comes the next year, I want to be able to walk into the sunshine again.

The spring at Shandong University is beautiful. There is a large crabapple tree to the east of the college. During the day, when the flowers are in bloom, girls often stroll among them. Not surprisingly, they are taking photos. At night, it is more annoying, with couples. During the snuggling period, in front of the flowers and under the moonlight, it caused extreme discomfort to the couple and they often had to go around.

The campus area is not too large, but the density of things is not ambiguous. I have a strong sense of geography, and it took me half a month to get familiar with most of the road corners.

This is mainly due to the differences between Wenying District and Lingde District. In addition, there are rivers and lakes on the campus and there are alleys connected to the park. What kind of impression will it give people? I also asked a friend of mine to answer this question. One year he came to play with me, and I took him for a walk around the campus in May. He was from a polytechnic school and sighed with emotion, “Why are there so many girls in your school? I saw a lot of beauties today! Your school also has a park with winding paths and pavilions. This environment is perfect for falling in love..."

Okay, I admit it, I chose it at the beginning! One consideration for Shanxi University is that it is a comprehensive university with arts, sciences, arts, and sports. I personally think that such an environment helps maintain balance between body and mind.

However, there is also something annoying in spring, and that is the catkins flying all over the garden. Poplar catkins and willow catkins can float so much that you will lose interest in the special effects of any idol drama. It was a season that made classmates from the School of Liberal Arts talk about "a river of tobacco, flying catkins all over the city, and yellow plums in the rain".

In this season, I am only in love with Paulownia. Especially next to the basketball court in front of the Lingde Twelve Zhai dormitory building, the tree at the T-junction by the Lingde River is shaded by a single tree and is exceptionally tall. Every spring, purple Paulownia flowers hang all over the tree, and its fragrance can be compared with the three trees. A hundred meters away, the Lingde Canteen competed. Because I have expressed my love for Paulownia more than once, even after graduation, some old classmates who stayed in graduate school would send me photos of Paulownia flowers in bloom. With this scene and fragrance, I no longer have to worry about contacting bronchial tubes. Yan has nothing to do with it.

Summer in Taiyuan is very comfortable. Because of the relationship between latitude and altitude, how comfortable can it be? The student dormitories do not have air conditioning. Because there is no use at all. What to do about the high temperature in summer? After discussing with the dormitory opposite, everyone opened the dormitory door and balcony door, and then, in the words of Grandpa Hayao Miyazaki, "the wind started to rise"; the school distributed mosquito nets to everyone, as long as they got used to "listening to politics behind the curtain" .

But if you were to interview students from Shandong University, which season is the most beautiful in the school? I am confident that the answer is most likely, autumn.

Autumn comes early in the north, with rainy weather in September, and autumn rain and cold after the National Day. Often, we will see such a situation. When we wake up at night and walk out of the dormitory, the ground is covered with gold. The ginkgo leaves that were still hanging on the trees yesterday have been spread on the ground by the wind and rain overnight. It's really stunningly beautiful. I used to think that autumn was very bleak, but when I saw the ginkgo trees singing and dancing in the mountains, I felt that the ginkgo trees were so optimistic. Although thousands of trees were withering, they went against the grain and chose the most eye-catching golden color.

When I was taking "Biology" as a sophomore, the teacher took us to learn about trees on campus. As a flower blind person, I realized that the flowers and plants I passed by every day were unusual and were carefully selected. This awareness that I was taught in college developed directly into a habit that boys are ashamed to mention after graduation: flirting with women. When I encounter unfamiliar objects of observation, I still have to resort to apps like "Xingse".

Every autumn and winter, you can always hear groups of southern children jumping for joy - "It's snowing!" Students from the south looked up at the snow flying in the sky, and students from the north looked at the snow. Southern classmates dancing in the school. This sentence structure can also be accurately described as: students from the south are skating and skiing on the ice, while students from the north stand by the Lingde Lake with their hands in their pockets and look at the excited people below with their teeth and claws gnashing.

Yes, it turns out that Lingde Lake can be used for two purposes: it is a normal lake in spring, summer and autumn, and people often fish; when winter comes, the lake is frozen for an unknown number of feet, but people wear it every year anyway Skates are skating on it. But I think Lingde Lake is a bit small and you can't slip away. It doesn't matter to others. Anyway, I'm not skating on ice. I'm skating maybe because of loneliness, or maybe it's a training class for raising children.

There was a year when the weather was quite abnormal. This year must have a name: April 19, 2013 AD. Why is it so impressive? Let me tell you slowly. The afternoon before, the spring breeze was warm, and there was a physical education class. The physical education class of that semester was swimming. We had just finished the class from the swimming pool, facing the warm sunset, we felt particularly comfortable. In order to match this comfortable mood , I walked back to the dormitory wearing short sleeves and blowing the wind. The next day, April 19, I woke up to snowflakes falling outside.

Excuse me, what does it mean when the cherry blossoms fade?

Answer, it means that spring is about to pass and snowflakes are coming! Is it irritating?

God, this kind of operation is very creative, but it is also understandable. I thought how boring it would be to have four seasons running all year round, so a bug would appear from time to time to try to adjust the atmosphere. Unexpectedly, I wanted to adjust the climate with shaking hands. .

It can be seen that God is not reliable in adjusting the atmosphere. After all, people have to use their subjective initiative. Regarding this point, our dormitory has done a better job, so it is necessary to introduce advanced experience.

As mentioned above, the four brothers in my family are all from other provinces. They are very different. How can we unite together without being rude?

Attacking the heart is the top, ringing is the middle, and feeding is the bottom. What does it mean? Let me explain it with a case below -

Dormitory director Yang, who is 187 centimeters tall and as thin as a rib, is from Langfang, Hebei Province. I heard that the name of this place has a lot of background. He either has a lot of money or is pregnant. After inspection and testing, if his unique skills don't resemble the temperament of a wealthy man, then he has special skills! Sure enough, after half a year of continuous network deployment, as the New Year is approaching, this person finally revealed his flaw - on New Year's Day and New Year's Eve, we were all busy switching channels to watch the New Year's Eve concert of the Four Satellite TV, and classmate Yang watched the cross talk of Deyun Club on Tianjin Satellite TV Exclusive show! I said that on weekdays, Yang Jun talks about jokes in all kinds of colors, and during the Chinese New Year, he is recharged and practicing.

Another habit of Yang Jun is to buy snacks. If you don’t eat the snacks after buying them, you have to take them back to the dormitory. If you don’t eat the snacks immediately after you bring them back to the dormitory, you have to put them in a conspicuous place. This is simply a provocation, can you bear it? cannot! Since Yang Jun is so thin and can never gain weight by eating, I have to demonstrate to Yang Jun how to gain weight, so that he can deeply realize that it is not the problem of other people's snacks, but the incorrect way of eating snacks.

So, the three of us set up a weight gain support group, and together we taught and demonstrated to Yang Jun tirelessly. This is the story of "Raised for the Next".

***It’s very simple if the call is correct. We are all basketball fans in our dormitory. To be precise, classmate Ye from Zhejiang did not play basketball at first, but he has a very high organizational awareness and is not "cold and unkind" like me, so he followed the trend in the dormitory and fell in love with it. He is good at basketball, but he can help himself. His favorite star is Chris Paul, who is currently fighting against the Empire, so that he goes to work every day in fear and prays for Paul.

The reason why it is a middle strategy is that it integrates the lower strategies into it. When we watch NBA games in our dormitory, it’s fun to watch them together. You can’t just watch them. Your hands and mouth are very free. This directly stimulates Yang Jun’s snack purchase plan. Later, considering that graduation is far away, he can’t squeeze it. It was too much, so we started taking turns buying "Melon seeds, ham and sausage instant noodles, whose legs are you giving me?", following the slogan of the salesperson on the train.

Nowadays, graduates are all in different places, and there are still NBA games, but the only time the brothers watch the game together is on a weekend when everyone happens to be free, while they each watch the live broadcast and try to catch up on the comments. Say hello and chat about the game in the WeChat group.

The university dormitory is a very magical place. Because of some kind of fate, four people from all over the world, who had never met each other in their previous eighteen years of life, have to be together at such a close distance. For four years, I have to say that this requires a certain amount of luck and more skills. There are bound to be frictions and conflicts, and our dormitory is no exception, especially in the first two years, but this is normal. Youth is inherently a rose with thorns. Only when we prick each other can we understand each other, but the most important thing is that only when you When you see the wounds that hurt others and you are willing to reflect on yourself, everything will turn around. And your reflection and transformation, believe me, will be keenly captured by the other person who has hurt you. From this moment on, In fact, you have reached a certain kind of consciousness.

Friendships in college can go a long way, to a certain extent, because college is the last stop before entering society. Just like a bullet about to fly out of a gun, college is the final trajectory of that period. , even if the bullet flies away, it will not deflect to the point of leaving people speechless.

But this is limited to truly close friendships. If they have never been close to each other in the first place, what's so strange about deviating from each other? Here I have to mention clubs again. As long as you don’t go out of your way like me, then please choose the club you like and actively integrate into it. Even if you cannot achieve dazzling achievements, this process of free integration based on interest , is priceless.

From truly devoted time in the club, many long-lasting friendships will be born, and many people will experience the sour taste of love.

I admit again that in fact, I regretted not joining the club of my choice in my sophomore year. I wanted to go to the Shandong University newspaper office to run a magazine, but in the end I gave up. I want to join the Cycling Association. I have my own bike. I often participate in the activities of the Cycling Association. I know many of my friends. I was tempted many times but in the end I didn’t join. One rainy night, I was walking back to Lingde dormitory from Wenying and passed by the small radio station behind the liberal arts building. The radio program that day was so pleasant, mainly because the female anchor’s voice was so pleasant. She talked about emotional topics such as love. I held an umbrella and Under a certain roof, dim street lights illuminated the rain... That is my most profound memory of Shandong University Radio.

Many years later you will miss your youth, miss those people in youth, and miss the youth those people experienced.

College is boring, but when youth meets college, even science and engineering colleges will become romantic. In college, you can like someone based on your heartbeat. This is your last chance, because outside the ivory tower, your like has no sense of existence when weighing the pros and cons.

Before going to college, I set two rules for myself: firstly, I am not allowed to be myopic and hunchbacked, and secondly, I am not allowed to fall in love. As it turns out, I did both. A friend once asked why I don’t fall in love. I said, since the motherland has not yet been unified, how can we live day and night?

Then can you guarantee that you won’t be tempted?

I can't.

So you can’t help but fall in love, right?

No. I will make myself look ugly so that my will will be stronger.

In college, I liked a girl for 3.5 years, but I didn’t know her for half a year. I can't control my heartbeat. It's just that I'm never ready for love, so I can call it a secret love. If I bring her more harm than pleasure, then I'd rather not start. Later, when I read Gu Cheng's poem - "You don't want to plant flowers, you said, I don't want to see them wither little by little. Yes, in order to avoid the end, you avoid everything starting." - Yes, the surname is Gu Yes, you are the only one who talks a lot.

Before graduation, I decided to confess my love. The meaning of confession is, "If you love someone, then you must tell her, not to ask her to repay you, but to let her deny it in the dark days in the future." When I was alone, I remembered that there were still people in the world who loved her so much, and she was not useless." So we had a few meals with each other and took a few walks, and she asked me what I liked about her. ? I said I don’t know, there are many things. If I know clearly what I like about you, then I can find a way to make myself dislike you.

I know very well that after graduation we will fly north and south. Love requires a lot of luck, but sincerity can build a tacit understanding. Now we are friends with a tacit understanding. This kind of tacit understanding, as light as water, is more precious and lasting than lovers.

The four years Shanxi University gave me seemed to have a touch of contentment.

In my impression, there are many teachers who are professor-level and whose resume results can make a lot of people shine. However, they don’t show off, and are even very commonplace. Some teachers wear peaked caps, carry thermos cups, ride electric scooters to and from get off work, leave the classroom and mingle with the crowd, disappearing in an instant.

The teachers come and go like the wind, but they are all very kind. You have to take the initiative to ask questions, and they will be very patient in answering your questions. They even look forward to such questions. But many times, such questions often do not arise. Therefore, when teachers leave after class, they always look a little nostalgic.

To this day, I still remember this look, but I have lost the chance to respond to the teachers.

Shanda is so quaint, and even today, there is still the heaviness of traveling through it.

My favorite place in Shanda is undoubtedly the library. The exterior of the building is full of European modernity, echoing the landmark building form of National Shanxi University a hundred years ago. But when you enter the library, you will find that unique temperament that you can only find in another place. If you have been there, then It is Shanxi Museum. Yes, in my opinion, the interior temperament of the Shanxi University Library is exactly the same as that of the Shanxi Museum. That is something I have never encountered again in so many libraries in so many other cities.

Shanxi is so thick that people misunderstand it. Shanxi is also too obsessed with its own time zone. It often seems like two different worlds outside the Taihang Mountains. This regional characteristic is also condensed in Shanxi University.

To this day, I have trouble figuring out whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.

The reason why it is a good thing is that if a university can slow you down, it can even give you more than half a year to deconstruct and construct yourself. Time flows slowly, without too much competition or competition (or Because there is no competition), as long as you are willing, you can learn what you learn and nourish your growth. Then such an environment is undoubtedly very close to the purest core of the university.

But it can be considered a bad thing, because what comes face to face when you leave the school gate is reality. Outside of Shanxi, other people's eyes are full of misunderstandings. You have to adapt to the new time zone and pick up speed along the way.

But I still feel lucky to have spent four years of my youth in a university where I can slow down. In my past life, there were many people and things that spurred me to run faster, but there were very few people and things that made me calmly willing to think about something.

Just like today I accidentally saw the words "117th Anniversary of Shanxi University", what? When did I get the “7-year itch”? The "110th Anniversary" is still familiar in my mind, but it is already the memory of the first time I saw Shandong University.