How to deal with the phenomenon of involution among college students?

1. The meaning of involution among college students

“As long as you can’t get involved in the involution, you will get involved in it.” This is a saying that has been widely circulated on the Internet recently. Nowadays, involution has been closely related to the lives of college students. So what is involution? Involution simply means internal competition. Involution was first proposed by an American anthropologist in the book "Agricultural Involution". According to the title of the book, we can know that involution was first used to describe agricultural issues. With the continuous development of society, involution has extended to The completely different meaning refers to the phenomenon that after a social or cultural model reaches a certain form at a certain stage of development, it stagnates or cannot be transformed into another advanced model, that is, irrational internal competition. Among college students, the phenomenon of involution is becoming more and more common, and more and more college students are entering into forced competition.

2. Reasons for the involution of college students

As for the common phenomenon of involution among college students, I think there are mainly the following two reasons.

On the one hand, it is the strong competitive psychology of college students. It is a common phenomenon among college students to have too many monks and too little food. In universities, there are few places for postgraduate study, few scholarships, and few places for outstanding students, which constantly stimulates everyone's competitive mentality. In addition, there are many people taking postgraduate entrance examinations and the pressure for employment competition is also great. Therefore, almost everyone can only prove their excellence and get what they desire through excellent results.

On the other hand, the existence of herd mentality is also a very important reason. When you find that everyone around you is trying to catch up, are you willing to be the last one? The paper required 3,000 words, and I would not stop writing if it was less than 5,000 words. He did the research, and I also had to do the research. It seemed that only by constantly running could I feel at ease.

3. Coping methods

Involution will bring huge pressure to college students, making it easy for people to ignore the true meaning of going to college. To prevent involution, we must correctly understand involution and understand what beneficial competition is. At the same time, we must correctly identify ourselves and understand what our true ideals are.