A College Junior's Story

This is also the 5th blog I’ve used, and I’ve been switching between them. I don’t plan to import my previous posts, so I’ll just start fresh this time.

Actually, writing every day would be great, but every day feels so busy, and I don’t seem to have any extra time to write a blog. So, I’ll just write whenever I’m in the mood.

My sophomore year has passed, and the plans and goals I made during my freshman summer are slowly being achieved one by one. That’s how people are - as long as you have a goal, you’ll have a direction to work towards, and you won’t give up even when you’re feeling lost or struggling. However, achieving your goals is still not easy, and being able to persist is already a success.

In my sophomore year, I joined the electronics club, applied for the URP project, passed the English 4 and 6 levels, and computer level 2. At the same time, I raised my overall GPA to 3.2 and learned C++, Matlab, Java, English writing, and Multisim. I also self-studied some Python Django and VC++ knowledge, completed the development of the Google Maps API, made a website using Mambo, published many hacker articles on the Wuse Tu forum, gave a great hacker knowledge lecture, and gathered technical talent.

I have no regrets.

My junior year of college is a year of learning English. This year, I need to do well on the GRE and TOEFL iBT, which is a very daunting task.

Why do I want to go abroad? I want to go to the United States to learn their advanced knowledge, because in China, there aren’t any particularly exceptional mentors. It’s not that I’m arrogant, but after interacting with them, you’ll naturally feel this way - they’re generally behind the times, and the outdated knowledge they possess won’t help me improve, especially in my field, where technology is advancing rapidly. I don’t know if there will be any exceptional professors in the United States or if I’ll be able to meet them. However, going abroad is always a good thing, and many times, you just need to take a chance and go. If a man doesn’t go out and explore when he’s young and instead follows his parents’ arrangements step by step, he will undoubtedly fail. I’ve always believed that such a man’s life will be incomplete, and only men who dare to think and act can succeed.

Aside from going abroad, improving my English skills is also one of my goals for taking these two exams. My English is still not good, and reading basic English magazines like Times and National Geography is still a problem. Sometimes, Chinese knowledge is not enough, and many advanced concepts are expressed in English. If you can grasp this knowledge first, you can often turn it into RMB in China. My dad and I have discussed this issue - in the information age, whoever possesses the most information or has the ability to control information channels and search for useful information will also possess more wealth.

So, English is very important. Remember this.

Now, let’s talk about my friends.

My classmate who got into MIT has already said goodbye to China and has completely entered the realm of the elite. The talented female student from the Peking University Chemistry Department is indeed exceptional, and graduating in just three years is really cool. I can only admire from afar.

My other friends are continuing to study hard.

Oh, who are my friends? They’re the ones who seem a bit crazy. Hehe. A group of people who do ACM. ACM is actually very fun, but it’s just too time-consuming, and I don’t think I have the patience or interest to do it seriously. I can only play with it as a hobby. After hanging out with my friends, I learned two words: ym. Ym means admiration, but I always feel like I’m ym (depressed) :)

In the new year, I still need to read more books. Reading books is still useful. On Douban, there’s a trend that says reading books is useless, and someone who’s jealous of people who have read thousands of books says a lot of nonsense. Actually, reading books is not about turning your brain into a playground for others’ thoughts; it’s about absorbing others’ knowledge and perspectives, grasping the knowledge and perspectives that others have spent a lot of time summarizing and presenting in an instant. This is what it means to absorb others’ time, and the person who possesses the most time is not necessarily a successful person, but they will definitely be a wise person. However, this is only true if you read good books.

Oh, right. In the future, I’ll write about some issues and arguments here. If there are a lot of grammatical errors, please don’t mind. My grammar is really bad, really bad, really bad, really bad. I’ll improve slowly.

By the way, I’ll be writing some posts here, and if you see a lot of unbelievable grammatical errors, please don’t worry about it. My grammar is very poor, but I’ll try to improve it gradually.