From Hengzhong to Tsinghua University

Chapter 14 (13)
A pneumothorax is when the alveoli burst and air enters the chest cavity, causing massive compression on the lungs.And my operation is intubation for exhaust.The tube is about as thick as a thumb.The first night I was in so much pain that I barely slept.However, the greater pain is that the doctor requires coughing to inflate the lungs to exhaust the air. In fact, the exhaust device does not draw air outwards, but can only actively cough to "squeeze" the air out.At first, I was afraid of the pain and coughed so hard that I couldn’t expel the air. The doctor looked very anxious and said, “If you want to catch up with the college entrance examination, you have to cough hard.”I feel like a bolt from the blue, you know, I only have the college entrance examination to lead to my ideal, if I can't take the college entrance examination, I might as well die.So, I endured the severe pain and coughed, which made me numb and almost fainted from the pain, and my mother burst into tears in distress.Of course, my parents didn't stop me, because they knew my attachment to my ideal.Yes, if I were asked to do this now, I would definitely not do it, but that time, I did it, and I was really strong enough to move myself, and all this came from the tenacity and daring to fight that Hengzhong cultivated. Dare to fight the spirit!
On the afternoon of June 6, I was discharged from the hospital and returned to school. On June 6, I walked into the examination room.I don't remember how much it hurt, let alone what tension is, and I feel like I'm the only one in this world.I am writing my ideal with a pen.

When I received the admission letter from Tsinghua University, I was really not excited at all, because I knew that I deserved it, and God would not kill my ideal.

Today, walking in the Tsinghua Garden, I still often think of the bits and pieces of the hard work back then.Hengzhong will always be my most precious memory and the treasure of my life.

Youth can't stand wasted

Class 410 Wang Jiaxing
Admitted to Tsinghua University in 2012
Three years ago, I entered the high school that many junior high school students dream of - Hengshui High School (known as Hengzhong).

When I first entered Hengzhong, what impressed me the most was the smiling faces of the teachers. From their eyes, I seemed to see the hope for us and the beautiful hearts of the teachers in Hengzhong.

After a week of rigorous military training, I officially started my study and life in Hengzhong.Due to problems such as the connection between junior high school and high school, I was very uncomfortable with the pace of learning at the beginning, and I even couldn't keep up with some subjects at all, but I was not depressed, and I had no time to be depressed. It is definitely not sympathy. I understand in the constant failures that the world will not sympathize with the weak, and Hengzhong is the same. She can only push you to become stronger.So, instead of being frustrated and stagnant, I'm still trying to find my own rhythm, even though I'm still being hit one after another.

Speaking of this, I can't help but think of my life in Tsinghua University. I have to say that Tsinghua University is a place where "big gods" gather. The top scorers in the college entrance examination and the gold medals in competitions are all gathered here, so many people who used to be arrogant will feel uncomfortable. , with great frustration.And I would not have this feeling, thanks to Hengzhong for tempering me, if I didn’t have the inner pain and struggle when I first entered Hengzhong, I might not understand until now, you can’t always be better than everyone, in fact Be the best you can be.

Speaking of Hengzhong’s life, I have to talk about Hengzhong’s discipline. There are rumors about Hengzhong’s militarized management.The discipline in Hengzhong is indeed very strict. There are almost no such vile violations as fighting and smoking in Hengzhong. This is due to the iron-like discipline. It is true that sometimes it is a headache to be strict, but to be honest, it is really beneficial It is based on the development of personal excellent habits and will quality.Without such and such restraints, my high school might be a little freer, but I would definitely lose something important, which is irreplaceable by other things——training.I have a deep understanding of this point after I came to the university. There are no more rules and regulations in the university, and the long-awaited freedom seems so pale, because freedom is always relative. Just into what you want to do.

Hengzhong's efficiency is the core factor for Hengzhong to achieve such good results.There are many rumors in the outside world, such as why we only sleep for five hours a day, let alone the mentality of those who spread the rumors. Time to do the right thing, and it must be done well and quickly.In terms of work and rest time, Hengzhong's work and rest are absolutely scientific and regular.Turn off the lights at 10:10 in the evening and go to bed on time, get up at 5:30 in the morning, and take a one-hour lunch break at noon, all year round.It not only ensures sufficient rest, creates good conditions for daytime study, but also avoids unnecessary waste of time, and the constant work and rest time allows the biological clock in the students to function smoothly without sudden insufficiency. adapt to the situation.Of course, this is only a small part of the efficiency, the most important thing is the efficiency of classroom and self-study.Leaving aside the classroom, Hengzhong’s self-study efficiency is definitely the highest. I think it can be seen from the slogan of self-study exams that everyone concentrates all their energy on the questions during self-study. A space to relax, to do 40 minutes and want to be efficient for 45 minutes, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as doing your best in every self-study session.And I will not relax my vigilance for the self-study that I control. In order to improve efficiency, I learned to make a plan. Before each self-study, I clearly know what to do and what to do in this self-study, so as to avoid wasting time in vain.

When it comes to class, of course teachers are inseparable. The biggest contributors to Hengzhong's glory in these years are our dear teachers. Let alone how knowledgeable and educated they are, we can rely on their professionalism and dedication to students. worthy of the respect of society.It is said that the teachers in Hengzhong are tired. It is true at all. Some teachers have to wake up with us in the morning and prepare lessons at home until late at night, but they are still full of enthusiasm in class. Their time with family and kids, but they never complain to us.Studying with these teachers, I feel that I have more motivation. Hengzhong teachers use their passion and enthusiasm to subtly influence us. Teachers, like us, are Hengzhong people who pursue excellence.

I am a competition student, and my path is slightly different from that of the students in the college entrance examination. The life of learning the competition is really hard. On the one hand, I have to accept the knowledge of the competition with a high degree of difficulty. , so we pay much more than others. When others can adjust a little bit during the holidays, we are listening to lessons that we don’t understand, and doing problems that we can’t solve. What is it that supports me? I think there are only four words for walking this road full of thorns in Yudi: never tired of it.The study of Orsay let me see how much interest supports a person. When you fall in love with this matter deeply, you will really feel that it is worthwhile to pay, and this kind of dedication is not expected in return.This is what I realized after finishing the Olympiad.The unsatisfactory performance in the provincial competition and the failure to qualify for the provincial team have made my mood sink into a trough.Thinking about it now, I am really grateful for that period of "darkness". During that time, I felt that my mind grew a lot. For the first time, I deeply understood what it means to be able to afford and let go, and what It is called not to be happy with things, not to be sad with oneself.For the first time, I tried to learn to be calm in the ups and downs and learn to do things with a calm heart. This may be a more valuable gift from Hengzhong and Orsay than Tsinghua’s admission letter.

I suddenly remembered a passage I wrote in my diary when I was in the third year of high school: stay positive and optimistic, and prepare for the worst with the most positive attitude.Don't regret yesterday, because yesterday has passed; don't foolishly wait for tomorrow, because no one knows the future; live in the present, enjoy today, every day of life is worth cherishing, no matter what situation you are in, don't worry about it at all. Waste, youth can't stand wasted.Don't deal with it, don't be perfunctory, just do your best.There is always only one difficulty, don't be afraid, be the bravest self.Don't look beyond your grasp.

things I've been thinking since I was a kid
Class 410 Zhang Zhicheng
Admitted to Tsinghua University in 2012
I always feel that I am still the very small child who can see monsters, meet Peter Pan and go to the Digimon world; I always feel that I will not face the college entrance examination like those legendary seniors. Fight hard to face struggle.But in a blink of an eye, I want it, but I still want to write a child's legend, thinking about the things I was thinking about when I was a child.

——Excerpt from the author’s diary a year ago In Hengzhong, a place full of masters everywhere and full of love, I’m just a middle-level person, just like my friend said, I’ve reached the realm of Taoism: looks, intelligence, memory It will not cause people to be jealous. I hold a huge "official position" in the class and enjoy myself, and "use power for personal gain" to help others from time to time.I am fortunate enough to write this article because I was lucky enough to enter Tsinghua University. I have no experience to share with you. I can only tell you what I was thinking about when I was a child.

You're never as good as you think you are, and you're never as bad as you think you are.I remember that if the atmosphere in the class was not good and the grades were not good, it would be attributed to two kinds of people.A kind of thinking that you can do everything in learning, so you refuse to participate in class affairs, and you don’t even listen to the lectures in class and concentrate on the questions you have prepared. More serious but more common is to do math problems in Chinese class.The other kind thinks that they are not good at anything in study, so they either give up on themselves and ignore world affairs, or just bury their heads and ignore world affairs.Needless to say, these two mentalities are not good for learning, for the class, or for oneself.I think we will never be as good as we think, nor as bad as we think.No matter how great the achievement is, there are mountains beyond the mountains; no matter how poor it is in this area, there are opportunities for breakthroughs.Just like my math is not bad, but the daily homework self-help homework correction is the same, and I will spare time to summarize the question types; and English has always been ranked last in the experimental class, but until the end of the English test of the college entrance examination , I have not given up on English, as Teacher Jinghua once said, I will continue to work hard for at least five months to learn English well.

If you don't know the suffering of others, don't talk about your own suffering.If you don't know your own happiness, don't talk about other people's happiness.Perhaps all Hengzhong students will not feel bitter when recalling their high school after graduation. That is because the pain of that year has passed, leaving only joy and achievements.And when we were still in high school, few of us could sing along.So, here I don’t want everyone to maintain a good mood and adjust themselves, because we always want to find a time to adjust, but we can never squeeze the time. There are more, it is better to skip directly.However, at one point, I always think of the above sentence to adjust my mood.This moment is when we have worked hard for a month (one month is a reincarnation in Hengzhong), but the research and exams have not been effective or even retreated.My mood adjustment is not self-comfort, but to understand that I have not worked hard enough.Teacher Baofang had a saying that inspired me a lot: "There is no 'non-knowledge loss' in the world, it is made up to comfort you."Indeed, I didn't think about it for a while, sloppy, or even copying something wrong is not the reason for losing points. These are all caused by our unfamiliarity with knowledge. Every time we lose points, every point we lose is worth reviewing this lesson. knowledge points.Therefore, the root cause of poor grades is that our efforts have not been achieved, noexcuse.In this case, we don’t have the time to lament that we didn’t pay back after the exam, and we didn’t have time to feel that we didn’t pay back: we worked a little less than others in the previous month, and now we don’t have time to be left behind by others.

Discrimination is eliminated by itself.In fact, Hengzhong is a place full of "discrimination": the teachers "discriminate" against the experimental class, adding a few questions to each homework, etc.However, Hengzhong is an extremely fair place. All respect and honor come from one's own ability, including learning ability, leadership ability, ability to solve problems, etc., but some people distort it. Some people only look at people. Learning ability, some of these people are directly reduced to academic performance.As a result, all kinds of "discrimination" have occurred more or less, but most of the discrimination is caused by the discriminated against themselves, but after all, the speaker has no intention and the listener has the heart.For example, when I was in the second year of high school, I collected the top XX names in each exam and called it "Qingbei Class". The original intention may be good, but when my three deskmates were in the front row, I was the only one left. When Quan went to the Qingbei class for a meeting, self-discrimination arose.What I want to say is not to adjust your mentality and ignore these things, but to eliminate these "discriminations" with actions.I have to say that my improvement in grades in the second semester of the third year of high school has a lot to do with the denial of my studies by one of my teachers and a good friend of mine.Since you actually found it yourself, you have to turn it into motivation yourself.

Time is like a canteen bug, there is always something to find.No matter how advanced the country is or how advanced the school unit is, as long as it is a cafeteria, bugs are bound to be found.

And time is not as simple as 24 hours a day, the key is efficiency.To be honest, during the period of self-review, I ate and slept on time and in good quality and quantity every day, completed the school’s five sets of listening exercises, finished writing calligraphy, corrected mistakes, reviewed and corrected mistakes, and finished half a set of college entrance examination questions. Make time to write a diary, the kind of text with pictures, and feel with friends how we are not as tired as the legend.Time comes from efficiency, efficiency comes from goals, and goals come from faith.

The last sentence can only be understood, but not explained—as long as the result is recognized, the process is not important.

Pick up the little morning flowers

Class 411 Zhang Yawei
Admitted to Tsinghua University in 2012
school life
To be honest, before I came to Hengzhong, I was full of longing for the cradle of Tsinghua University and Peking University.I still remember that sunny August 8th, when my parents and I walked into the high school campus that I dreamed of for the first time, carrying big bags and small bags.The day was very blue, with only a few white clouds lazily hanging in the sky. The campus was very lively, with busy parents, happy students, enthusiastic teachers, and various banners and exhibitions erected to welcome the new students. Card.After packing my luggage, I walked alone in the beautiful campus. I just felt that the summer wind was very cool that day, the cicadas were singing very lively, and the bright flowers were blooming very enthusiastically.There is an indescribable joy in my heart.

Like many students studying abroad, I experienced homesickness shortly after the start of school. Looking at the moon at night, I felt an inexplicable sadness in my heart.However, this feeling was quickly replaced by the warmth of the new collective.The military training when I first entered school made me deeply understand what it means to be steamed and rustic, with the scorching sun on your back, but still grit your teeth and persist in the military spirit.I still remember that target shooting, a car full of classmates happily sang "Return from Target Shooting", and even the always serious old class showed a rare smile.At that moment, I deeply realized how precious it is to be integrated into the melting pot of Hengzhong Group. The friendship of classmates and the passion to fight for a certain goal are cherished by each of our Hengzhong students.

Of course, when talking about Hengzhong’s campus life, two major events cannot be ignored: excursions and coming-of-age ceremonies.I still remember the night before the hike, everyone in the dormitory was busy preparing the dry food that might be used for the hike.When the class monitor heard the teacher's advice "Take less things, or you won't be able to walk back", everyone was embarrassed and laughed at themselves.I still remember that although everyone encountered many ditches and bumps on the hiking road, and the dust was almost flying all the way, they were elated and sang loudly, as if they had endless energy.I still remember that everyone was exhausted on the way back to school, but they encouraged each other, persisted until the end, and cheered when they saw the familiar school gate again. The 80-mile journey was trampled underfoot by a group of Hengzhong students who united and helped each other.Not to mention tempering the will and strengthening the collective concept, just walking such a long distance on foot has already left a strong mark in my life, which is worthy of my deep aftertaste.The coming-of-age ceremony in the second year of high school was a different scene. The class ordered cakes early, and the whole class mobilized to design the content of the coming-of-age ceremony class meeting and decorate the classroom.In fact, the majestic scene is nothing. When the students put on adult caps together, and when the school leader said "stepping into the door of adulthood and embarking on the road of becoming a talent", the new perception of responsibility, the new thinking about life, and the The new experience of future and destiny is the torrent surging in the heart of every Hengzhong student.

Learning experience
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