Chapter 21 Nineteen, an upset

In the middle of the second semester of the third year of senior high school, the students in the graduating class review by subject, and each of them must immediately decide the category of their own choice for further study.Volunteers are divided into three categories, namely, science and engineering, medicine and agriculture, and liberal arts.Because I like both literature and mathematics, I fell into an unprecedented contradiction.The attitude of the whole class soon became clear, and no one applied for the liberal arts.This is in line with Shanghai Middle School's tradition of emphasizing science over literature.However, I finally decided to apply for the liberal arts because my math scores were good. This decision was undoubtedly an upset and aroused a lot of discussion.All the teachers came to persuade me, even Qian Changxun, who taught Chinese, said that studying Chinese was useless.Huang Yihe showed me his sister's composition, and asked: "You are not even as good as my sister, how much can you do if you study liberal arts?"

future? "Amidst the opposition, I wrote a poem quietly, saying: "Teachers and students are writing strangely, and I don't want everyone to hear about their ambitions. "In fact, I don't have any clear "ambition". It's just that the books I read are mixed, and I don't want to just develop into a certain category of science and engineering. I always feel that there is a wider world waiting for me to gallop. At that time, several of us A classmate played a game, listing a number of questions with reference to the questions Marx’s daughter asked Marx, and everyone wrote their own answers. Under the question “Your ideal career”, Huang Yihe’s answer was engineer, and I The answer was a professional revolutionist. This was, of course, met with ridicule by him, who pointed out that in our time there is no such profession at all, and even if there were, it would be too ambitious and unrealistic. I realized later that my answer was actually very Inaccurately expressed my feeling that I did not want to be bound by any kind of fixed occupation, but in my vision at the time, it seemed that only professional revolutionaries like Marx had this kind of freedom. Finally, I chose philosophy. It is this kind of desire for freedom that does not want to be restricted by a certain profession that plays a major role in the study of many schools. I found the basis from Mao Zedong's words. His old man said: "Philosophy is the generalization of natural science and social science. and summary. Because of this, I believe that philosophy can allow me to step on the two boats of liberal arts and science, and never give up on either.

After the subject review, shortly before graduation, a small episode happened.Shanghai holds a mathematics competition for middle school students, first of all there is a preliminaries level by level.Because I applied for the liberal arts exam, I didn't take the math review class, but I still took part in the preliminaries at the school level with a playful attitude.There are 14 high school graduating classes in the school, including two special science classes. Each class has 50 students. Most of them are applying for science and engineering and medicine and agriculture. preliminaries.Among the more than 600 students who participated in the competition, I was the only one who applied for the liberal arts.However, the results of the competition were announced. Among the twelve winners, our class accounted for four, including me, and the other three were Xu Yeye, Shi Zuorang and Wen Renkai.The most surprising thing is Huang Yihe's failure, because he is also recognized as a mathematical elite.I really want Xian to give him the qualification to participate in the district and county first-level preliminaries, but this is not allowed, so I have to bite the bullet and play.Facts have proved that I wasted a quota, and more than half of the competition questions I know I can't solve at a glance.I answered a few questions and left the rest blank. I was the first to hand in the paper and left the arena feeling both relaxed and guilty.The other contestants seem to have passed the second round of preliminaries, and two of them, including Xu Yeye from my class, won the city-wide competition.

When filling out the specific application requirements, my first choice was the Department of Philosophy at Peking University, followed by the Department of Journalism at Fudan, the Department of Philosophy at Nankai, the Department of Spanish at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the Departments of Chinese and History at Peking University and Fudan University.Except for the first three volunteers, the rest are basically filled in randomly.Now I understand that according to this filling method, if I fail the first choice, there will be no hope of being admitted in the latter ones.I don't really remember the specifics of the college entrance examination. I only remember that the subjects included Chinese, politics, history and geography, and mathematics. The last question.

During the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, I waited for the announcement with anxiety.One day, I was playing at home, and someone downstairs yelled my paging phone.It was midsummer, and I ran to the entrance of the alley, shirtless and dragging my clogs, and grabbed the phone.Huang Yihe's voice came from the other end: "Department of Philosophy, Peking University!" I felt like I was dreaming when I heard it, but I couldn't believe it was true.This year's college admissions work was later criticized as being based on test scores as the only standard, and the number of admissions dropped sharply.The enrollment rate in upper middle school was more than 90% over the years, but this year it dropped to 70%.However, after all, it is a high school. There are 50 students in our class, three of whom were admitted to Peking University, five of them were admitted to Tsinghua University, and even more were admitted to Fudan University.Huang Yihe was admitted to Fudan Physics Department.There are many middle schools in Shanghai, but none of them was able to enter a higher school this year.In the alley where I lived, all the fresh candidates also failed the exams.Since my family moved here, I have spent a lot of time living in school, and I have been immersed in my studies at home, and I have little contact with my neighbors. Now they all cast admiring glances at me.My parents got busy and prepared my luggage.I realized that my life was about to turn a whole new page.