"University... I didn't think about it. You made me think about it."
Ting Shuang leaned his back against the fence, propped his elbows on the fence platform, raised his head, looked at the sky, and narrowed his eyes slightly.
The sunlight cast a golden honey color on his young face, Adam's apple, and arms, and the cool breeze from the top floor brushed against his short hair, making the front of his oversized shirt press against his chest.
the University…
For Ting Shuang, going to college is so natural that it is so natural that there is no need to think about what it is.
When I think about it now, I feel a kind of astonishment, why was no one asked him this question before he went to college
Ting Shuang thought for a while, and said, "Boss Bai, if you ask me about my current thinking at this stage, I think it is quite realistic. I have also heard people say before that university is a place for cultivating independent thinking and free spirit. The place... But later, I thought this statement was actually quite sour. It's not that it's bad, the slogan sounds good, it's just... unrealistic. Look, there are so many universities, so many college students, there are a few independent The idea of and the spirit of freedom? Everyone is still thinking about the problem of way out. Many people think about these practical things, and they are too anxious to go abroad to find a job.”
Ting Shuang glanced at Bai Changyi and was a little unsure: "Boss Bai, maybe it's because I've been working part-time for the past few years. Some of the statements that seem to be correct, I feel like they're just on paper... um... If you're wrong, tell me. ."
"We are chatting, there is no right or wrong." Bai Changyi smiled, "Go on."
Yes, this is a question with no standard answer.
Boss Bai likes to ask questions without standard answers.
"Then I'll just say it casually." Ting Shuang was habitually feeling guilty when she was asked before, but now she's relaxed, "If I go to university, go to graduate school, just want to study, and don't want to get a degree certificate, That's fake... These two things aren't contradictory, right. The reality is that many jobs have educational requirements. My dad and the others recruited employees for R&D positions, but none of them had a master's degree or below. There are also professional things. Well, I have the ability to solve professional problems, and I don’t want to join the company in the future. They think I am an airborne soldier who doesn’t understand anything... I want to solve practical problems. I remember a professor in our undergraduate course mentioned a particularly embarrassing situation : While college students can't find jobs, companies can't actually recruit people. Because the college students trained by universities are out of touch with the needs of companies... Speaking of which, you see, for most jobs, people recruit you to do so. You go to work, people don't need any independent thinking, the spirit of freedom..."
Bai Changyi waited for Ting Shuang to finish speaking, and then said: "I don't think it is the responsibility of universities to provide labor that meets the needs of enterprises. That is the task that vocational education schools need to complete. The vocational education system is not perfect, which leads to the provision of vocational education. The onus is on the university."
Ting Shuang thought about it for a long time, but couldn't figure it out: "So... Boss Bai, do you think I went to college like this? It's wrong? But the reality is that all college students need to find jobs. They learn things in college and meet like-minded people. Take advantage of the opportunities offered by the various universities…”
"I said it, I don't talk about right or wrong. I don't want to tell you what the answer is, what the truth is, we stand in different positions, and we see different things. How to get through this stage is a question you need to think about yourself." Bai Chang Yi turned his head to look in the other direction, the glasses chain shone a fine light in the sunlight because of his movements, "Look."
Ting Shuang followed Bai Changyi's eyes and looked over, not far from the school's library, teaching building, laboratory, square...
The library with baroque appearance was built hundreds of years ago and has been repaired many times later; the teaching buildings, laboratories and buildings of various departments are all newly built, and the appearance before World War II can no longer be reproduced; there are many buildings in the square. Students sunbathing, or lying down and reading, or sitting in groups of three or five, holding coffee cups and chatting.
"Ting, what did you see?" Bai Changyi's low voice stopped in Ting Shuang's ear for a while, and then dispersed in the wind.
what did you see...
"I saw... all kinds of facilities in our school." Ting Shuang's eyes fell on the corner of the top of the library, where the marble sculpture of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, stood, "... I know that I should cherish these resources and try my best to Learn more."
"Because you know that you will only stay here for two or three years." Bai Changyi overlooked the road in the school, with pedestrians or vehicles passing by constantly, "so I wanted to take something away from here. But in fact University is a place... more romantic than you think."
romantic…
Ting Shuang couldn't help but turn her head to look at Bai Changyi's expression.
Boss Bai is getting old, and the word actually comes out of his mouth.
Just looking at it like this, Ting Shuang saw a rare and unusual tenderness in Bai Changyi's eyes.
Obviously they are standing on the same roof and looking at the same scenery...
Ting Shuang stared at Bai Changyi's profile and asked, "Then what did you... see?"
Bai Changyi didn't answer Ting Shuang's question, but said, "You asked me before if you don't care about students' dissatisfaction. You know, at the end of each term, professors will face evaluations from students, just like you have to face professors' exams. ."
"Yes, I just wanted to say this... I also graded several professors last semester." Ting Shuang said, "Does this affect you? Is there any... assessment or something?"
Bai Changyi said: "Professors with too many bad reviews may not be able to continue teaching, if the school chooses not to reappoint."
Ting Shuang was a little worried: "then you—" Bai Changyi's lips curled slightly, and he said in a humorous tone when joking in class: "But I am a tenured professor."
lifetime professor
Can tenured professors do whatever they want
The moment he heard that, Ting Shuang wanted to kill the people. Damn, it seems that tenured professors can really do whatever they want...
But the next moment, Bai Changyi put away his joking tone, and a hard and deep thing was engraved on his eyebrows, as if a glance at the years: "The tenure professor means that I will always stand here and look at this place. "
been standing here...
Been looking at this place...
For some unknown reason, Ting Shuang calmed down a bit in these words.
"You ask me what I saw, and I'll tell you what I saw." Bai Changyi looked at the medical school laboratory further away, "Ting, believe it or not, just as we were talking, that building A new type of nanorobot was born in the building, making a certain human disease history?"
Bai Changyi's voice sounded too reliable, Ting Shuang was taken aback, and couldn't help but look at the laboratory: "...What nanorobot?"
Bai Changyi laughed softly, and Ting Shuang reacted at once, frowning: "Are you kidding me?"
"No." Bai Changyi smiled, and then pointed at the group of students who were basking in the sun in the square, "Do you believe it, in such a noon that is no different from usual, there is a genius among these children who is basking in the sun. Staring at the sun, drinking cold coffee, and having a sudden flash of inspiration, can the entire human knowledge boundary move forward?"
Ting Shuang wanted to say whether he believed it or not, and wanted to say that you were fucking teasing me again, but at this moment he couldn't say it.
"... I believe it." Ting Shuang felt unbelievable, "I really believe it. I don't even know why I believe it."
"Because you know that things like this are happening all the time." Bai Changyi glanced down at the ground on the top of the building, "The building under your feet is changing the way of life of many people."
Ting Shuang also lowered her head and looked at the LRM office under her feet.
He seemed to understand a little bit.
Bai Changyi said that they stood in different positions and saw different things.
really.
He stood in a place where he could only see himself, and he only saw himself.
His first reaction to the question "What do you think college is?" was simply "What do you think college is to you?" To him, college was a time, a stage, a place to leave.
As Bai Changyi said, he knew that he would only stay here for a few years, so he was in a hurry to take something away, and in a hurry to let him change a little over the past few years and carve him into the person he wanted to be.
But the university this place...
Actually there is another meaning.
For those who have been standing here, the university is another kind of existence.
The wind on the roof continued to blow, as if it had been blowing for many years.
Ting Shuang avoided the wind, lit a cigarette, and tried to see what Bai Changyi saw in the smoke. After a long while, he asked, "Boss Bai, what do you think a university is?"
Bai Changyi took the half-lit cigarette in Ting Shuang's hand, took a breath, and opened his lips lightly: "Human pioneer."
It might be because the wind on the roof was too strong, and a layer of goose bumps suddenly arose on Ting Shuang's arm, followed by numbness in his back.
Human pioneers…
"Ting, I only ask you the hardest questions, because I never underestimate you." Bai Changyi turned his head and looked at Ting Shuang, "sooner or later, some of you will come to me, even if only one."