From Hengzhong to Tsinghua University

Chapter 5 (4)
It was an unbearable memory.The experiment lasted three and a half hours, and I spent the longest period of my life.Before the experiment, I knew that in order to break into the top five, the experiment must be almost perfect.So, when the experiment started, I proceeded with care, and I did a great job.However, the price of being careful is a lot of time. When I found that there was hardly enough time, I gradually panicked.Unexpectedly, a glass piston fell to the ground with a "snap", and suddenly fell to pieces. My heart was half cold-could this experiment be declared a failure because of this mistake? Could it be that my dream was shattered?In fact, it is not a serious problem if a piston breaks. How could I have thought that I added the wrong reagent in a hurry, and the product I worked hard for a few hours ago was scrapped!
The experiment can no longer be carried out, but the exam time has not yet arrived, what should I do, what should I do?Seeing the invigilator next to me shake his head slightly at me, with a look of regret on his face, I wanted to cry but had no tears.I really don't want to give up, but the reality is that I have to give up; I don't want to admit failure before telling me that I failed, but I obviously can't succeed.The exam time has not come yet, but my exam really ended early.I stood there blankly, pretending to be strong, squeezed out a little smile, and spread my hands to the invigilator. The meaning could not be more clear: my experiment has completely failed!

At this moment, a thought appeared in my mind - I thought of the marathon spirit, even if all my opponents have already crossed the finish line, I must insist on finishing the race, because this is the persistence of my dream, this is the never-speaking abandoned!Surprisingly, I said: "Teacher, let me do it again!" So, we weighed the medicine, stirred it, and dissolved it... It didn't take long before the exam time came.I put down the instrument in my hand, felt the pain from biting my lips with my upper teeth, sighed softly, and left the examination room silently.I didn't say a word to anyone.The cold raindrops in the autumn wind hit my face, and my eye sockets were a little moist... I have never experienced such pain and helplessness.Although I know that even if there is no such mistake, the possibility of advancing is still very small; although I also know that I do not expect too much the favor of miracles.It's not a sense of failure, it's an unspeakable regret and disappointment.If I complete the experiment without any regrets and fail to advance in the end, I can face it calmly; How painful?There may not be only one such helplessness in life, but I don't want it to come again.

[-]. The autumn wind blows to know the cold and warm
it's all over.I returned to the class with the painful remorse left over from the experimental exam still on my face.Many people asked me: "How is it, have you passed?" I could only shake my head with a wry smile, even though the results hadn't come out at that time.This time, the study of the college entrance examination subjects fell even more, and the hills of test papers piled up on the table were already higher-they could only increase my sense of pain.Alas, on a blue-black day, the sun loses its temperature, and the colors become dim. A voice echoes in my ears: "Let me do it all over again, maybe this time I have a chance!"

The news came: one of my classmates entered the provincial team.He immediately moved back to the original Olympiad class, prepared for the finals with ease, and waited for the arrival of the recommendation notice from Tsinghua University and Peking University.My heart was in turmoil again, I admit, I was a little jealous, and I lamented the injustice of God.For a week, I never closed my eyes at noon, and I kept recalling the three and a half hours of darkness in my mind, like a curse.I thought a lot, thought a lot, understood a lot, and let go a lot.Perhaps, it's not that I choose pain in life, but that I choose challenges—no, not challenges, but self-improvement and exercise.Perhaps, I would rather have a life full of disasters. Didn't I always never give up?I did not accept it passively, I have been working hard for it!I'm not doing anything wrong, isn't everything as expected?I know that there is another great opportunity in front of me - to take the college entrance examination with the first prize in the Olympiad.Who can say that I won't pass the exam?If I really pass the exam, when the good news comes, I will look back on the ups and downs, and see all the wind and waves dissipate and the eternal light reappears in the sky.In my heart, how would I be equally happy for myself for more tempering and experience in the past six months?At that time, what was the difference between being recommended like this and being recommended by entering the provincial team?At this moment, I did not enter the provincial team, but I have no complaints.Not only did I have no complaints, but I was grateful instead.Thank God for not giving me success too easily, thank God for giving me a good opportunity to sublimate my character... in front of me, there is still a test.Just like groping in the darkest time before dawn, struggling in the most desperate time before success.A belief is stationed in my heart-I am going to be admitted!
[-]. Turning point is now
I have forgotten how I survived those three months of darkness. In short, my grades in those three months have steadily moved forward from a backward position and have continued to improve.Then, the coveted recommendation exam came - I didn't think too much about why I chose to recommend it, but I just took it for granted that I must be recommended!
In January, I came to Peking University campus.I suddenly thought of all kinds of studying for the Olympiad during the summer vacation.Half a year later, the autumn wind blows away the scorching sun of summer, and the withered leaves fly around to kick off the prelude to winter.At this time, Weiming Lake was covered with a thick layer of ice, and male and female students freely skating on the ice, laughing and having fun.I strolled across the lake from one side of the lake, and let the people who came and went slip by me. When I turned around, the majestic Boya Pagoda stood in front of me under the twisted branches of a few dead trees, a kind of reverence and respect. The feeling of yearning arises spontaneously - this is my ideal palace!

When I was approaching the water's edge, I was a little inattentive, and the solid ice under my feet made a "cracking" sound, as if it was about to break.I was startled, and quickly took a few steps back. I saw that where the ice surface meets the shore is a water surface of one foot square, the ice layer undulates, and the water ripples are stirring.I had some doubts, and looked around, and there was more than one puddle like this.I was amazed: hundreds of people shuttled back and forth on the ice, but no one cared about the potential danger!A skater inadvertently walked forward from behind me, only to hear a "click", and the ice broke!I was "ah" surprised.The strange thing is that the broken ice layer is square, not like a natural break.The man hesitated for a moment, tapped lightly, and slid away again.I was extremely surprised. Could it be that this lake has undergone some treatment?In my heart, Peking University was suddenly shrouded in a veil of mystery—it is so broad and profound!
Written test the next day.Although the importance of this exam is no less than that of the Olympiad preliminaries, I have completely lost the care and fear I had at the time.Maybe it's because I don't have too many worries, but my heart is more open, and the pen "swipes" sound, and I sway freely.To be honest, the questions are difficult, but I can always "squeeze" out some ideas in critical moments, and some of them even come out by mistake.How did it perform?I dare not say, it may be a bit rough, but I tried my best after all.

A week later, the results came out. They were average in each subject, but the overall score was still quite high.I am a little relieved, I can't tell, knowing that the ultimate goal of high school is only half a step away from me, but I don't feel ecstatic.After experiencing this success and then failing, and then succeeding after failure, there is meaninglessness and peace in my heart.Fate has its own grasp, since it is no different from the whole if it is too much in front of you, why care too much about individual frustrations?I can't recommend it, but I have more opportunities to exercise in the first half of the college entrance examination.Imagining that I have let go of everything, I will really become a fairy, like a saint.Next, prepare for the interview.I have always been uninterested in current affairs, so I had no choice but to cram for the time being.

I browsed through all the current affairs hotspots in the past year.I was not good at talking, so I asked my family to help me with the simulation exercises.After several times, it seems that I have gained some confidence.

Go back to Peking University, the winter sun is warm.Everything is more straightforward and simpler than imagined.During the interview, I relaxed completely and talked about my views boldly. Although some of them might be extreme, I talked about them heartily and refreshingly.Maybe many things are not as difficult as imagined, and maybe many things are not as simple as imagined.It is useless to think too much, but to welcome boldly is the true meaning.Give full play to what you can, and forget what you can't.You should get what you deserve, and you won't get what you don't deserve.The thing is so simple and straightforward, you don’t need to complain about what you didn’t get, it doesn’t belong to you; you don’t have to be too happy about what you got, it’s what you should do, if you don’t get it, you should reflect on it—— Don't you want it too much?
The night after the Peking University interview, we rushed to the school to take the year-end and final exams that would be held the next day-with no time to prepare.I let go of the excitement after the interview and the worry that I might fail the exam. I just felt that I was working hard on the exam, and I finally got a good result.At the moment when the bell rang for the end of the school's final exam, the final results of the Peking University exam came out.

[-]. Frequent good news will reduce the appearance of joy
It seems that everything happened once in a dream, maybe because I have imagined it too many times, I just feel that everything seems to have happened before, and everything is happening in the way it once happened! "Congratulations, you have been recommended!" The teacher's words were still in my ears.I smiled with an exaggerated expression as I imagined, and the teacher smiled back: "Look at you!" I just laughed and didn't reply.In fact, I wanted to say at the time: "I'm not overly happy, it's just that everything ended as imagined and dreamy. I smiled and wanted to make my dream as I imagined before..."

Life is like a dream, how many joys and sorrows have actually been staged in your dreams before they happen, but you don't pay attention to it.You're thinking about it over and over again, but avoiding acknowledging it.The distance between dream and reality is as far as the difference between heaven and earth, and it is close at hand.If you blindly suffer from reality and never dare to get involved in dreams, you will not be complacent and trapped by yourself; if you blindly indulge in dreams, you will daydream all day long, or chase dreams desperately, and fetch water from a bamboo basket.Put the dream in the reality, walk through the thorns and thorns, just for one day to suddenly understand that rising after setbacks is like a dream scene, imagining setbacks or pains, just for the feeling of dreaming come true tomorrow, this way Come, my heart is much more magnanimous.I don't know, I just imagine, working hard for a lifetime, a lifetime of no regrets, looking at the memories of the previous life when I am getting old, is the whole life also a dream of the previous life?
Six, the snow is flying away
It has been more than a month since the day of the walk.It snowed yesterday, the first of this winter, and possibly the last - as it fell at the turn of winter and spring.Last night, the wild snowflakes were flying in the sky, light and melodious, and sprinkled one after another.Thinking of catkins floating all over the city, there are all kinds of sorrows and complaints; thinking of countless falling flowers, the fragrance will be broken.The ruler flies into the sky, the white feathers are scattered, the border is wrapped in yarn and satin, the ice falls and the fog surrounds, there is a grand loneliness.Unexpectedly, when I wake up in the daytime, on the red day, the ice and snow on the road have melted, only the roofs, walls, and tree branches and flower heads are left with white gauze spots.The ground is wet, the walls are dripping, the wind is blowing through the branches, and the pear blossoms are dancing—this is an embarrassing scene!

Imagine that my experience since the third year of high school is like this long flying snow-some experiences are like flying flowers blooming on the side of a branch, or like snow on the roadside forming three feet of ice.Flowers freeze into ice, and ice melts into flowers.But when Dongxi came, all kinds of flying snow disappeared without a trace.Where did it go?Gone - my memory from last night, the memory intertwined with blue and gold... The same is true of sorrow and joy in the world, Gu Panzhaoxi understands it clearly.

A home full of life

Class 322 Shen Dawei
Recommended to Tsinghua University in 2009

I want life in full bloom!It's like flying in the vast sky, like walking through the boundless wilderness, having the power to break free from everything!

I want life in full bloom!It's like standing on the top of the rainbow, like walking through the bright galaxy, with power beyond ordinary!

After three years of hard work here, with little gains, how can the word "many" be so great?Self-confidence balances people.

Living here, if you don't know what self-confidence is, you are destined to be a supporting role; if you don't know self-confidence, it must be difficult to succeed!There are so many strong players in Hengzhong, but there is only one number one.We used to be outstanding, but when we come here, most of us no longer stand out and become mediocre.But Hengzhong never gives up on anyone!She educates us to be confident and teaches us how to be confident.Temporary backwardness can only mean that the past is not good enough, and the real future can only be controlled by yourself!No one is born willing to be a queen!Under this kind of encouragement, the blood of self-confidence flows in the bones, always reminding to charge to the highest point of oneself, and to move forward bravely towards one's own goal!There is no "admit defeat" in the dictionary of Hengzhong people, and there is only success in the minds of Hengzhong people!
Confidence in Hengzhong people, firm belief in victory; Struggle in Hengzhong people, raise the sails of life.

Hengzhong people like to struggle and compete.Here's a saying: Open your eyes and start competing!Indeed, this is a true portrayal of Hengzhong's struggle.Competition starts from opening eyes; struggle starts from competition!Every minute and every second will be carefully arranged by us; even a big break allows us to use it as a public self-study like a treasure.Everyone in Hengzhong regards struggle as their habit. There is a good saying: Diligence is the speed of our struggle, and high efficiency is our acceleration!Go out early and return late, race against time, this is hard work; concentrate on one mind, all thoughts are one, this is efficiency!Diligence and efficiency have formed the iron wall of our struggle. Under the guidance of confident support and goals, Hengzhong people move forward vigorously!

Struggle for Hengzhong people, blow the horn of charge; happy Hengzhong people, laugh and talk about the heroes who subdue the tiger.

Those who say that the balance is bitter will not achieve good results, and only those who are happy will reach the pinnacle of success.Our happiness is not content with enjoyment, but a kind of happiness to enrich ourselves!Hengzhong people don't know how to enjoy themselves, don't waste their time, and don't know how to make progress. They only enrich themselves, exercise themselves, and improve themselves.At the end of a day's study, Hengzhong people can pat themselves on the chest and say: "I have made progress today, and I have a clear conscience today!" When Hengzhong's life is over, Hengzhong people can look up to the sky , Shouting: "In the past three years, I have achieved self-leapfrogging and rebirth!" This is the Hengzhong people, the Hengzhong people who can find happiness in suffering, the Hengzhong people who can create miracles, and the Hengzhong people who can be the mainstay people!

Happy Hengzhong people, create Hengzhong brilliant tomorrow!This is where miracles are born, and this is the home of life in full bloom!Confidence, struggle, happiness, the flower of our life, how can we not bloom in full bloom!Hengzhong is the home of life in full bloom!Here, I got the wisdom and courage to fight hard; here, I saw the sail of self-confidence, going forward bravely, never stopping!Here, the victory of the dark horse is staged from time to time; here, the miracle of lore is displayed everywhere!
I know that Hengzhong is the wings for me to realize my dream; I know that it is Hengzhong that makes me know how to fly!Confidence comes from strength!Hengzhong can always create a new world!
first dreams
Class 325 Wang Liya
Admitted to Peking University in 2009
I know that today I am qualified to share my learning experience with you, perhaps because of the four words Peking University.However, as far as I am concerned, who gave me the four words Peking University?Yes, it is Hengzhong, it is Hengzhong's spirit of pursuing excellence, it is Hengzhong's seemingly harsh management, it is Hengzhong's conscientious teacher, it is the ringing of the bell over and over again, it is the papers one after another, it is Hengzhong Everything that now seems to you to bind you.It is Hengzhong that gave me everything I have now and made me realize my original dream.

I know that high school is of great significance to us in a competitive society.All I can do now is to tell you who are still in high school my truest thoughts, and I hope you can avoid detours.After all, there are only a few important turning points in life, and taking these steps well may affect your whole life.

If I had only one thing to say to you, it would be this: Believe in the teacher.Believe in the teacher, everything is not a problem.I know that some of you may have the same cleverness as us at that time, always thinking that your own methods are easier than the teacher's, and you always think that your own ideas are more important than the teacher's guidance.But I want to tell you, I admit that some of you are smarter than the teacher, but in front of the college entrance examination, we are all a group of soldiers, and the teacher is our commander, our general, they have experienced many battles, and only under their guidance can we It is possible to win the battle of the college entrance examination.Otherwise, we are likely to die in battle, a price that we and our loved ones cannot and will not accept.Instead of taking risks with your own cleverness, it is better to pass the college entrance examination safely under the escort of teachers.We are young, but we don't have the capital to squander our youth; we are smart, but we don't have to take risks.When you come to the university, you will know that there is no high school teacher who works as hard as the teachers in Hengzhong. Their dedication, dedication, and experience are enough for us to worship.So, when the teacher walked into the classroom and started that precious 40 minutes of explanation, shouldn't we cherish it?Cherish the teacher's correction, because it is our weakness; cherish the teacher's criticism, because it is our bottleneck.To be able to successfully enter Peking University, the people I am most grateful to are all the teachers in Hengzhong who taught me, and the most unforgettable ones are the teachers who once criticized me. Although their words sounded so harsh at the time, That was hard for me to accept, but it was these words that sounded the alarm for me, stopped me from the brink, and saved me from wasting time in the wrong direction.

(End of this chapter)