Tsinghua University's admissions group held an information release meeting during two classes on Friday afternoon. All students at No. 10 Middle School knew that people from Tsinghua University and Peking University would come in the next two days, so the school used the conference room in the administrative building as a venue for communication. There were probably less than fifty people in the entire school who were recommended by their respective class teachers to come.
Some left one after another after the consultation, while others were kept back by the admissions team to continue their work. Among them was Zhu Xu, but Cheng Ran left first.
There were still some students gathered outside the door, some were looking at the enrollment materials, or sharing and discussing with each other, these were the top students of No. 10 Middle School, some of them came with their parents because of the seriousness of the matter. Although No. 10 Middle School was still running normally, it was just that at this point, the normal rules had nothing to do with them.
These students gather together to share information on the one hand and to discuss how to deal with the admissions team and get the best conditions on the other. This is a matter of wits and strength. Of course, the admissions team also knows that students will connect with each other, so the conditions are still very transparent, and the level of opening corresponds to the degree, which can be regarded as "clearly marked".
Of course, they were also the first to know about the negotiation between the admissions team and some students. Everyone shared the information, and on the one hand, there was envy of the students who got good "favorable conditions", which made people feel tortured, but also really fucking exciting.
"Neither Cheng Ran nor Zhu Xu have made a decision yet, what a personality!"
"Those who don't decide at this time are tough people who are sure that they will not make mistakes in the college entrance examination. Ordinary people can't afford to play around. When you are confident about your estimated scores after the exam, you will face more intense competition for admission to Tsinghua University and Peking University, and the conditions you can get will be even better!"
"I'm so envious... I don't have that kind of freedom... It's better to be safe than sorry. And my goal is very clear, which is to go to Tsinghua University. As long as they promise me admission, I will apply for it as my first choice. I can't help it. Who told me to be a little timid?"
"It's okay to be a little bit vulgar... This is called calmness. I just need to get in. My dad and his family have a better mentality than me. Anyway, now the whole family, including relatives, think that there will be a scholar in Tsinghua University, but no one in my family has ever been a scholar, so this is to bring honor to the family. Let me handle it myself. What can I do? My dad and mom are more confident and relaxed than me!"
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After walking out of the conference room in the administrative building, Cheng Ran had a brief exchange with the students outside, then went to the mailroom, picked up the letter, and did not return to the classroom. Looking at the beautiful sunset, Cheng Ran bought a bottle of water, went to the playground, found a step to sit on, and opened the letter.
The letter was addressed to Tsinghua University and had a faint fragrance. It was sent by Qin Qian. Cheng Ran opened the letter and couldn't help but smile again. There were many photos inside, but this time there were no personal photos of Qin Qian that almost made him make a mistake. Instead, there were mostly scenery photos, photos of campus scenery.
Unfolding Qin Qian's purple letter with a faint fragrance, it contained information about what she saw and heard in Tsinghua University. She said she was surprised by the huge group of bicycles, and also told about the jokes on the BBS that she had spied on: "When will the beautiful women appear? I beat my chest and ask the heavens. I grit my teeth and stay by the water and trees, and be a eunuch for four years." A joke that made me laugh so hard.
She also said that when she first arrived, some seniors were indeed overly attentive, but she saw through their "intentions" and made them back off to a certain extent. As a result, one of them actually learned on the job and joined the dance association, aiming to become her ballroom dance partner. His progress was so rapid that Qin Qian was so scared that she simply stopped the non-professional activities of the dance association.
Actually, when you walk into this university, you will find that there is still too much mystery outside. In fact, most of the students in Tsinghua University are just like us. There are students who shout "Long live 60 points", there are also students who play games like crazy in the dormitory, and there are also those who do not understand everything when writing papers for the final exams. Of course, there are also many excellent people, the proportion is higher, but the excellence of these people lies in the fact that they have special skills in study, logical ability, or a certain subject, just like Qin Qian has a specialty in dancing. When writing this, there is also a ":)" icon, and it is probably self-boasting.
Finally, Qin Qian said, "I have met so many outstanding people and many amazing deeds. In fact, I am also thinking that if you can come here, I believe that this Tsinghua campus will be even more exciting."
The photos attached to the letter were all taken in different seasons. There are the statue of Wen Yiduo, the old civil engineering museum with an inscription by Cai Yuanpei, the library with a quiet environment shaded by green trees, and the heterogeneous isomorphic sculptures of Tsinghua University’s School of Science…
Cheng Ran looked at all this, smiled and thought that this girl must have done him a great disservice, and actually thought that with his joining, Tsinghua, a place full of talented people, would be more exciting. He had to persuade her quickly. It would be fine to just write these words in the letters between them. If he had to say them out loud, especially if she was a girl who ended up in the Shangyuan of Tsinghua, then if Cheng Ran dared to set foot in Tsinghua, he would probably not be greeted by a violent storm, but a heavenly calamity.
The slanting sun was very warm. Cheng Ran was holding the photo stained with a layer of gold, and he knew clearly that Qin Qian wanted him to apply for Tsinghua University.
Tsinghua University and Peking University came to the school to recruit students, and Cheng Ran became the main target. To be honest, this was his first time to experience this. But it was also very novel. In fact, this treatment had never been seen a few years ago. It was precisely because of the integration, merger, and expansion of colleges and universities in recent years, the deepening of education system reform, and the gradual development of education into an industry that such a situation occurred.
The country first proposed 211 in 1995, and then 985 in 1998. As the first batch of 985 universities, Tsinghua University and Peking University naturally felt the efforts of subsequent competitors to catch up. In order to ensure that their golden signs do not fade, they must take the initiative to expand enrollment and recruit high-quality students. The current enrollment of the two universities is relatively restrained, and it has not yet reached the stage of the face-to-face enrollment war in later generations.
The independent enrollment system of colleges and universities will probably not be implemented for a trial period until three or four years later. It is also a constraint on the current chaos in which schools can set recruitment conditions at will. During this period, it is naturally still extensive. For example, the conditions that Tsinghua University and Peking University have set for some students at No. 10 Middle School in the past few days must follow a complete set of procedures. The current situation of adding 50 or 60 points to grab students will be difficult to operate and appear in the future.
"A man is hiding here and secretly reading a letter. What shameful thing is written in it?"
A voice came from the side, Cheng Ran turned his head and saw Yang Xia looking at him with her head tilted and eyebrows raised. Then she walked up and sat down next to him. This action made all the photos in Cheng Ran's hand fall into her eyes.
"Sent from Qin Qian? Oh, is it not suitable for children again?" Yang Xia narrowed his eyes.
“Qinghua, do you want to take a look…” Cheng Ran handed it in her direction.
Yang Xia took it without hesitation and looked at the photos one by one.
"How are you? What did the admissions team say?" Cheng Ran also saw Yang Xia in the conference room. Apparently, she was also consulting about the application matters of the two schools.
Yang Xia smiled faintly, "The same reply as Peking University, saying that for someone like me who is on the edge of the top 100 in the province, there is still hope, but I still need to work hard."
When she came over just now, everyone was speculating about Cheng Ran's whereabouts. In fact, Yang Xia had already seen the clues. Cheng Ran did not stay for long at the Peking University symposium the day before yesterday, and at the Tsinghua University exchange meeting today, he talked with the head of the admissions team for a long time. In fact, if Cheng Ran had no intention, why would he waste so much time
After looking through the stack of photos of Tsinghua University, I returned it to him.
But when she handed it to Cheng Ran, she took one last look at the photos, her eyes stubborn yet determined.
"Come on." Cheng Ran said with a smile.
"I've been working hard. Why don't you tell me that I've risen from 50th in the grade to 46th now?" Yang Xia turned around and opened her eyes. "But you only ranked fifth this time. You've started to fluctuate erratically again. Are you Schrödinger's score? It's always unpredictable. Could it be that because Jiang Hongshao is gone, you've lost motivation and are slacking off?"
"Let me tell you, Jiang Hongshao is not here, but we are in contact from time to time. She can't supervise you, but I can... Wake up, this is not your level."
Cheng Ran nodded, "We split up a while ago. Anyway, at least we won't have any regrets in the end."
"It's really hard to have no regrets," Yang Xia looked over, his eyes sparkling, but with a slight evasiveness, "Anyway, just work harder, I'm watching you."
"That... I feel something is wrong. What if I take a shower?"
Yang Xia hit him hard.
Cheng Ran smiled and moved aside. The warm sunshine was very warm, just like the mutual dislike and fights between the little girl and the little boy in the mountains and seas during those years, all frozen in those trivial, carefree times without worries about life and future, when the breeze blew gently and the heart would beat inadvertently.
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When some people recall their high school life, most of the time they don't remember the boring, repetitive, regular life of studying and studying day after day. Instead, they remember the 17-year-old boy or girl, the boasting and gossip in the dormitory, the games they skipped classes to play and the excitement of competing wits with the class teacher.
Many people look forward to college and imagine how wonderful it is, freer, more open, and more inclusive. But after leaving, you will find that college may indeed be the most important stage in life, but high school is the best period of growth. If you want to say what the innocent age is, it is the time when independent thinking has sprouted a little, but still believes in something beautiful, believes in hope, has a little understanding of society, but has not been infected, is still so deeply imprinted with emotions and loves someone so pure, that is the real innocent age.
During this period, people are cautious in dating and imagine that they can go to college. But in fact, it is not until college that they realize that it is normal to not find a partner. In high school, you don’t get enough sleep, and in college, you don’t have enough money.
High school is like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge, it is the youth of a class, it is the growth of a group of people. College is a world where everyone has their own motivations, it is the maturity of a single person.
People always think that high school will end with a bang, but in fact, the end of truly beautiful things never breaks the earth or collapses, just like you will never hear the "good morning" said to you overnight, you will never arrive at the classroom and shout "hello, teacher" overnight, you will never watch the figure on the court facing the sunset, you will never ride with the person you miss so much, the riverbed where you accidentally fell in your hometown when you played in your childhood has been demolished into ruins, and later it has grown into high-rise buildings and is nowhere to be found. There is no grandma who often makes pancakes for you, and you can no longer taste the taste in your memory. You can no longer smell the fragrance of the girl's hair that held your hand, and she should have married later. These are engraved in my memory, and I can't find them. I want to say them but I have forgotten the words, so I can only tell them to the mountain ghost.
As time went by, the countdown to the college entrance examination was fierce in the No. 10 Middle School. Jiang, who was still a legend among the people in the No. 10 Middle School, was studying for a preparatory undergraduate course in London. During the sprint period for the college entrance examination for his peers in China, Jiang Hongshao was not left behind, so he was also regarded as a god-level existence by the preparatory students. However, these were only reflected in the chat with Cheng Ran.
Entering this stage, Cheng Ran became a hands-off boss with ease. He no longer approved emails and only glanced at them occasionally. In his career, whether it was Q making huge profits with "Spirit Realm", or developing the Three Kingdoms online game on the Lianzhong platform to welcome the Chinese online game market, or all aspects of Tianxing Dojo, all the professional managers under Cheng Ran tacitly understood not to disturb their boss's college entrance examination, but sometimes they would gossip about which company their boss, who was visited by Tsinghua University and Peking University in turn, would go to. Li Mingshi bet on Tsinghua University, Lin Xiaosong bet on Peking University, and Zhao Qing smiled but said nothing. Everyone asked Cheng Qi, as Cheng Ran's elder brother, to inquire about the news, but Cheng Qi said that he would never run errands.
In fact, at this point, Zhang Yu, who was still an English teacher, had less work to do. Strictly speaking, his daily work was just handing out test papers and explaining them. He had no new knowledge, only experience and repeated practice of questions. He didn't even need to prepare lessons, but Zhang Yu didn't devote his energy to his own company, Huazhang, but instead seized the last ten years of his teaching career.
One afternoon, during the last two periods of his English class, when the test papers were distributed and the students were doing the homework, a girl in the third row from the back fell asleep on the table because of the continuous hard work. Zhang Yu walked over and stopped the boy next to her from trying to wake her up. Instead, he went straight to the podium, took off his coat, covered the girl with it, and made a "hush and continue working on the homework" gesture to everyone.
Everyone was so shocked that their mouths were shaped like an "o" that could fit a goose egg.
At this time, the old-fashioned physics guy would occasionally say, "Why do I always dare to say something in class? Because Newton is my backer!" Such words made the graduating students burst into laughter. In fact, everyone knows that he saw the countdown was getting more and more tense, and he wanted to liven up the atmosphere every day. This old scholar who had been old-fashioned for about three years finally started telling jokes every day and became the number one storytelling god.
In the Chinese class of Sun Hui, the head teacher and grade director, he did not hand out the test paper that made everyone sigh. Instead, he wrote directly on the blackboard with chalk: "When you grow old, you still miss the world. You feel melancholy in vain. When you are young, you are bold. Don't learn from the old man."
Every stroke, every stroke, every word and every sentence is the result of the lifelong efforts of this special teacher from No. 10 Middle School.
Then he said to everyone: "In today's lecture, this is a sentence from the poem "Dian Jiang Chun" by Ye Mengde, a poet of the Song Dynasty. The first two sentences above are actually similar to Cao Cao's "An old horse in the stable, with a thousand miles to go. A martyr in his twilight years, still has great ambitions." If there is a difference, it may be that Ye Mengde had great ambitions but was not able to use them, while Cao Cao used his great talent and bravery to change that chaotic world.
The finishing touch of the poem "empty melancholy" is Ye Mengde's helplessness in facing the incomplete country. So he sent a message to young people, don't be decadent like an old man, don't waste time, be bold and unrestrained!
Young people should be full of ambition and passion to realize the unfinished business of their predecessors and to create brilliant things. I hope that one day, no matter how late it is, you will still be on the road of struggle and unwilling to fall behind.
Even if it is ordinary, even if it does not shine brightly, it is enough to "still yearn for the world beyond even when you are old".
When you are old, I hope you still have the same feelings and ambitions! "
"This is your last lesson!"
Sun Hui held the teacup in his hand and nodded slightly to everyone.
"Thank you for supporting me with your youth."