Climb the peak of your ideal life
—— A report of a student in Tsinghua
Hello, everyone:
Today, I am very honored to stand here and give you a report on high school learning. I will explain to you through some examples what I have seen, felt and thought during my three years in high school and college. I hope everyone can learn from my report, avoid detours, set goals for themselves, strengthen their confidence and finally enter the ideal university.
How do we set our goals and establish our ideals
The number of students admitted to key universities in our middle school is 6 to 7 every year, so after one year, you may all enter first-class key universities or first-class famous universities. When I was a freshman, I was confused: My goal is to get into a good university, but I want to get into a good university. Why do we have to take the road of studying? The answer of * * * is "for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation", and the answer of many parents is "for glorifying ancestors", and the answer of many teachers is "for your future, the writer Zheng Yuanjie said," I will be a writer as soon as I graduate from primary school ",Bill? Gates said; "Dropping out of college can make you the richest man in the world" has been honed in Tsinghua for three years, and my answer now is "studying is the shortcut to our success".
here are some examples to prove this point: Bill Liu, a brother of mine in the Department of Electronics in Tsinghua, won the first prize in the National Challenge Cup Science and Technology Competition for College Students last year through his one-year research, and his patent "Human biosensor chip" was bought by a company for 3 million yuan. Look, a senior undergraduate is already worth millions, and there are many such examples in Tsinghua.
Deng Xiaoping said, "Science and technology are the primary productive forces". That's right. Let me give you another example: the red laser pointer that we all played, the lowest price I saw in the market the other day was RMB in 3 yuan. A project "green semiconductor laser pen" made by our department of information optoelectronics, now we buy one in the United States for 2 dollars. In fact, the cost is only RMB in 1 yuan, but we have made it. Without others, we can decide everything.
I looked up Forbes magazine and found that 1% of the self-made billionaires under the age of 35 in Chinese mainland started with science and technology. Speaking of this, liberal arts students may be a little unhappy. They all rely on science and technology. What should we do? Don't worry, I have another example here: this student is a doctoral student of Professor Zhu Rongji of Tsinghua Institute of Economics and Management-a liberal arts student, and now he is the vice president of China Merchants Bank, only 29 years old this year. He was promoted by President Zhu Rongji for solving the bad debts of CCB in a city in Hebei for more than ten years in one month. His reuse depends on his excellent professional knowledge and skills.
There are many examples of this. They took the shortcut of studying, and it took them several years to reach the height that others might take decades to reach. Because first-class universities will give you comprehensive professional knowledge, teach you ways to learn new knowledge quickly, and give you a broad perspective of observing the world. This is what I call "the road to study is our shortcut to success". You can't spend too much energy on your study.
Now we should understand what our efforts are for today, and we should strengthen our faith and strive to be admitted to a first-class university. The question now is what kind of university are we going to enter?
At present, many students may have no idea. It is true that your can be admitted to a good university, but we must know the gap between different universities. The style of study, teachers and research funds of famous universities are incomparable to those of general key universities. The universities ranked 3 th in the country are too bad for you, so I hope everyone will set their goals higher.
The students present here have high or low grades now. Perhaps the top students want to target Tsinghua, Peking University and China University of Science and Technology, while the lower students may think that Hebei University is not bad. In my opinion, students should aim at Fudan University or Shanghai Jiaotong University at least. Don't doubt your ability. Take my own example. When I entered the first year of high school, I was ranked in more than 14 grades, and later I was ranked in 2. But I always thought that I would definitely enter Tsinghua in the future and make unremitting efforts towards this goal. Many of my current college classmates have my experience. Faith is a wonderful thing. When you know from your bones that you are Tsinghua's level, you will show Tsinghua-like qualities everywhere in your actions.
Now I think everyone should know their future, so what should we do now?
Several problems I encountered in high school and their solutions
Here I sum up several annoying problems I encountered in high school, which I couldn't figure out at that time, but now I want to understand. I'd like to share it with you here. I hope students will take fewer detours.
(1) Partial subjects
I didn't like politics, history and geography the most when I was in high school, because these subjects didn't pass the college entrance examination, and maybe I won't need them all my life. Maybe some students hate physics, chemistry and math. Some students only like a certain subject and don't study other major subjects well. But why does the "idiot" Ministry of Education want us to learn things that we can't use for a generation? It's no exaggeration to say that chemistry and biology were my best subjects in high school, but after studying electronics in Tsinghua for three years, we didn't use them at all. I have reason to believe that I will never balance a chemical equation again in my life. In the words of many people, these two subjects are the stepping stones to the college entrance examination. I didn't understand why we needed to study these courses at that time, and I believe many of us here don't understand either. I told you the following example, and you should understand.
When we were freshmen, we had a compulsory course called Mechanical Drawing-the main content was to draw screws on drawings. We are electronics majors. Why do we draw this? Indeed, we haven't been exposed to relevant content since that semester. Many of our classmates were very dissatisfied at that time. To calm their anger, our dean told us a story. He once took a senior undergraduate to do a graduation project (16 weeks). His topic for this student was to write an application for a new computer. This computer structure is neither von Neumann system nor Harvard system. The computer language it uses is completely unconventional. In the first week, the teacher first gave the classmate a related book for him to understand. After a week of hard work, I figured it out. This is the case from the second week to the eighth week. Programming starts from the ninth week to the fifteenth week. Write a paper in the last week. This classmate successfully completed the task. When he graduated, his tutor asked him, "Which course did you use for your graduation project? Calculus? " "No." "linear algebra?" "no" "C language?" "No." "Microcomputer principle?" "No ... at most, English is used, because the programming is made up in English." "What did you do in college for four years? All the courses you have studied are useless. " This classmate is stupid. But the teacher asked, "If you are a high school graduate, can you finish this project in 16 weeks?" "Obviously impossible" "That's right. What you learned in four years of college is the ability to learn knowledge. You have to study every book I gave you four years ago for a semester, but now you have completely understood it in one week."
This story has given me a lot of inspiration. The knowledge we are learning now may never be used in the future, but all kinds of learning methods and thinking perspectives you have summarized when studying various subjects will accompany you all your life. When you meet a new problem, you can use your previous experience to quickly sum up the solution to the new problem. Therefore, I am now responsible to tell you: Don't be partial to the subject, any subject is very important to you.
(2) Never say that you have tried your best
Some students feel that they have worked hard, but they just can't improve their grades any more. He comforted himself, "I have tried my best." I remember there was a line in the movie "Braving the Island": "Never say that you have done your best!" Personally, I feel that when you still have the strength to say "I tried my best", you didn't try your best at all. I think people's potential is infinite. Let me give you an example of myself. Let's see how much potential people have.
when I was in high school, I was very poor in physical education. Running 1 meters was fatal, and I never failed. I believe many students present here also hate this sport's reaching the standard. After arriving in Tsinghua, in the first section of physical education class, the teacher told us that it is a tradition in Tsinghua to be good at sports. We have to run a 3-meter long-distance race every year, but we are not allowed to graduate after running, and we are disqualified from the postgraduate study. What should we do? Anyone who comes to Tsinghua doesn't want to get a diploma. Most of my classmates are as poor in sports as I am. So every night at 1: 3, after our self-study classroom closed, there were more people on the playground in Tsinghua. Run for half an hour and then go back to the dormitory to continue studying. After practicing for a semester, I lost 4 pounds. In the final exam, I ran down 3 meters in only 12 minutes and 56 seconds, and the fattest person in our class ran within 15 minutes. I remember complaining to my PE teacher in high school: "I have tried my best, and I just failed the 1 meters." Now it's funny. I think the motto of Tsinghua's "self-improvement" has a great influence on me. When you feel that you have done your best, you will often break through your limits and awaken your potential if you persist a little longer. The research of thinking science shows that the human brain can put all the information in the library books all over the world, but human thinking has only developed 7% to 8% so far. So here I hope that students must work hard and try again, and never say that they have tried their best. What is success? People don't believe in what you can do, and you have done it. This is called success.
(3) How to learn the high school curriculum well
Following the last question, never say that you have done your best, so how should we work hard? I heard many reports about learning methods in high school, and I also introduced my learning methods to others many times. But it was not until my sophomore year that I really understood how to learn knowledge well.
In our sophomore year, we had a class called Analog Electronic Circuits, which was particularly difficult. Our teacher, Academician Gao Wenhuan, told us a sentence: "Learning analog electronic circuits has the same trick as learning other subjects, and there are eight words-sea tactics and sea tactics." I was very puzzled at that time. Since I was a child, teachers always said that we should talk about methods and not do problems all the time. Why did the academician say so? After a few things, I understood the meaning of these eight characters.
In our class, there was a top student in the provincial college entrance examination in Shandong, and he got 713 points (out of 75). I asked him, how did you learn to be such a "cow"? He said: When I was in high school, I did all the problem sets available in the market.
If you think that the top scholar in Henan Province is too far away from us, I will give another example of a student who ranked 76th in the college entrance examination in Henan Province to see how he did the problem. His IQ will not be higher than everyone here, because he has a hard time studying in the Department of Electronics in Tsinghua. He said that he had done the inscriptions on the six main subjects of the college entrance examination at least five times.
Therefore, I think Academician Gao Wenhuan is right, and sea tactics is definitely a good way to learn high school courses well. I have my own experience. For example, when I was a senior in high school, I couldn't make mistakes in English essays, so I made 5 mistakes in a row one weekend, and I almost didn't miss the mistakes in English exams. You may think that college students seldom do problems. I don't know about other universities, but I can say without exaggeration that I do more problems in Tsinghua every year than I did in my senior year.
Now students will say that it is easy to think about naval battles, but how can we have time? This leads me to the following question.
(4) How to squeeze time
Next, I will tell you how a classmate from Hubei spent his high school in Tsinghua: he was in a key high school in a county town, and all the students in his school lived on campus, and he had three days off during the Spring Festival every year, and the rest had half a day off every month. There are 9 days off every year. I don't think our middle school dare to be so abnormal, but those students in Hubei really waste too much time less than us, which also leads to their much better foundation than ours, and also leads to Tsinghua's preferring to recruit 3 students in Hubei rather than one in Hebei. Looking back on my high school, I regret it very much now. If I had been as quick as my classmates in the south, I would have won the provincial top spot in the college entrance examination. Students, we are no longer children, and we have a heavy responsibility. If we still spend a lot of time on entertainment and rest, when we enter the university and go to the society, we will feel the great pressure from those people from southern provinces and cities.
so how do we squeeze in time to ask?
First of all, I personally think that everyone here is walking too slowly. What I see is that everyone is talking and laughing and walking slowly. If you go to Tsinghua, you can see that all students ride by car and walk almost at a trot. We don't need to waste time on these meaningless things. You can read more books and do one more question than others as soon as you walk into the classroom from the school gate. After a long time, you will have an absolute advantage in time.
Secondly, our ten minutes between classes are also very precious, which I didn't realize until the next semester of senior three. By making full use of the ten minutes between classes, we can squeeze in nearly two hours a day and do one more set of problems than others. What's more, we'd better not watch TV. When I was in high school, I had to watch TV every day. At that time, it was mainly because I wanted to save face. I watched sports games, the evening news to talk with others, and I watched TV dramas to blow with others. Pretend to be not too diligent but get good grades all day. In the final analysis, I hope others will say that I am smart. My current view is that people who are said to be "smart but just don't study" are the stupidest people. No matter whether you really have a superior IQ or not, if we spend too much energy on things that have nothing to do with our future, it is our greatest irresponsibility. Many of my classmates in Tsinghua have never watched TV during their high school years, including the Spring Festival Gala, and some students have never even watched TV since junior high school. Now at school, we have televisions in every dormitory. But the TV in our dormitory is almost never turned on. Nobody watched a European Cup after the final exam. Everyone didn't rest and relax after the exam. All of them were preparing for next semester's courses, preparing for TOEFL and GRE exams, or learning some practical skills. All people think about is to use other people's rest time to enrich themselves and make themselves dominant in the future competition.
Students should not think too much of the students in Tsinghua. Among the students in Tsinghua, those with superior intelligence and quotient account for at most a quarter of the total number of students. The IQ of other students will not be much higher than everyone here. What they have more than you is just their attitude towards their future. Tsinghua students have a very awesome spiritual strength. They can give up any temptation for their own goals. Even on New Year's Eve, the self-study classrooms in Tsinghua will be overcrowded. In the words of an American professor, "Stude