Chapter 3 ［Purely personal report on CUHK］

Recently, something happened on the "Internet University": they made a list, and even posted a "China University Review" on the Internet with great momentum. The seat of a prestigious school in someone's mind has not changed - Tsinghua University! — Peking University! The problem is, it is said (note, it’s not what I said, it’s said), in "China University Reviews", the masters who write reviews seem to have never been here at all, and colleges and universities in South China have been brushed aside in an understatement. As for CUHK, which has always been the No. 1 university in South China, the evaluation is not very good, and the ranking is still very low.

A certain person made a special trip to browse the Internet for this reason—hey, sure enough, I saw many posts calling for CUHK to strive for success... Hey, why don't you talk about Xiongqi?Definitely not a fan. At that time, all the students paid more attention to science than literature, so they decided that being admitted to the civil engineering department of Tsinghua University must be the coolest lifelong achievement, and they could win the best attitude award.Because I feel that science and engineering are the most stylish and stylish, and scientists are always inscrutable wisdom idols, so...Beihang University is also good. If you enter Tongji, you must study architecture.Back then, the tendency to emphasize science over literature had reached such a heinous level that the parents of some students said:

"I heard that Peking University's liberal arts are good, but the students like to make trouble, like to parade, especially post big-character posters..." God. However, how to fill in the college entrance examination volunteers was also related to the graduation allocation. Parents still attached great importance to the future hukou of their children. Therefore, when a considerable number of college entrance examination students scored enough to choose Tsinghua University and Peking University, they preferred it. Sun Yat-sen University, South China Institute of Technology or Sun Yat-sen Medical University.It’s not surprising that someone’s local classmates made this choice, but someone’s reasons accounted for most of the foreign students’ choice—according to them, it was because of CUHK’s status as the number one university in South China, and Guangzhou .

There was once a widely circulated anecdote that a Hong Kong female high-achieving student wore a T-shirt with the words: "I didn't go to Harvard" on the front; Stanford. Back then, those college entrance examination talents who did not pay attention to the ranking of prestigious schools but preferred household registration insurance or curiosity and yearning for the south could write something on their T-shirts if they were interested.However, since Sun Yat-sen University ranks far behind in the ranking list of "Internet University", it is a bit too boring to do so.Maybe everyone will feel very sympathetic and humorous after watching it and say, my God, this person didn't pass the exam!

After the university rankings and reviews of "Internet University" came out, it caused some controversy and repercussions, so the editor suggested to make a planning topic: it is called "China University Campus Charm Ranking", and the glorious task assigned to someone is to talk about CUHK—this task is so honorable that someone feels that someone is too humble to talk about it—who am I?Or, a large clove of garlic?The praise is justified... nonsense, so do I still have to praise it?The scolding is justified... Why is there such a white-eyed wolf? Besides, how could a certain person be qualified? A certain person has only been to college once in his life and only studied for four years.I am so anxious that I want to do my loyalty to the school and go back to the website as a hacker to change the ranking. I am not studying that major.Back then, computers had to take make-up exams to pass. It was true, and I couldn’t even figure out where the door was.

But having said that, I am afraid that no graduates like to hear others berate their school, let alone listen more and more.As for their murmurs among themselves, that was a different matter entirely. As I said before, many of the outstanding talents in the college entrance examination back then were selected from the top three universities in the country and took the number one university in South China. One of the charms of CUHK in green Guangzhou.Opening up the glorious history of CUHK, Sun Yat-sen, Lu Xun, Chen Yinke, Fu Sinian, Gu Jiegang, Jiang Shaoyuan, Wang Jingxi, Feng Wenqian, Mao Zhun, Ma Heng, Ding Shan, Luo Changpei, Wu Mei, Yu Pingbo, Zhao Yuanren, Yang Zhensheng, Shang Chengzhuo, Shi Lu China, etc., etc.. These long lists of names that remind people of greatness, brilliance, knowledge, and academic profundity can be seen, but the name of CUHK is probably the most proud of CUHK. ——So far, Sun Yat-sen is still the first person respected and remembered by the people of the three places on both sides of the strait.

In addition, an author named "Jin Xing" posted an article on the Internet titled "College University must strive for success!" " The post said: "Sun Yat-sen University is the highest institution in South China and enjoys a high international reputation. In the rankings of Asian universities in the United Kingdom and Germany, Sun Yat-sen University can also be ranked 18th, and China's 4th. However, the ranking of NetUniversity is ranked 20th, which is an incredible ranking. China is used to fighting within the nest, and it is better to compete internationally than to fight domestically. In the 1998 ranking of Asian universities, Sun Yat-sen University ranked 39th, ranking fourth among universities in mainland China. Only Peking University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Sun Yat-sen University, and Tsinghua University were shortlisted in mainland China.

Why is there such a big difference between domestic and international rankings?China has a well-developed relationship network, and many reasons are self-evident..." ...Someone feels that counting down like a family tree is particularly boring-what is this doing?So-and-so said it, so-and-so was too soft-spoken to talk about it.However, Mr. Chen Pingyuan said in the preface to "Approaching CUHK" in the series of "Essays on Chinese Schools" that someone casually found: ——"As long as you step into Kangyuan on the banks of the Pearl River in Guangzhou or Yanyuan in the western suburbs of Beijing, linger in those small buildings covered in green trees and covered with ivy, and caress those stamps stamped with Lingnan or Yanjing , books that have raised countless students, and listening to the old senior "Baitou Palace Maid Talking about Xuanzong", you can vaguely see the atmosphere of the university that used to be lively..."

——In a seminar on educational philosophy and curriculum, he talked about the subtlety of university education, which lies in how to "make rules for Chinese materials and reserve space for geniuses."In order to illustrate the problem, "I will use the old Tsinghua University and the old Peking University as examples to analyze the pros and cons of each. At that time, there was a sentence that almost blurted out: that is the characteristic of CUHK as a comparison. In my opinion, Sun Yat-sen University in the south pays attention to rules, but it is not as strict as Tsinghua University; it reserves space, but it is not as respectful of freedom as Peking University. ”…——“During the centennial celebration of Peking University, many well-informed journalists forced me to talk about the similarities and differences between North and South Universities in terms of Peking University and CUHK…”

... ... Of course someone can't say such a level of words.However, for someone, CUHK is a perennial green place in someone's memory, where someone spent the best years of his life. There are statues standing on the lawn all the time, bells ringing faintly from time to time, the small pier connected to the Pearl River at the north gate, and the luxuriant flowers and trees that exude various fragrances all the year round, which are often confusing. ——She can only be in the south, in Guangzhou, not in any other place. As for the "Internet University" thing, I don't know if it is one of the technical techniques used in the hype in the IT industry nowadays. I heard the news vaguely in the car recently that the rankings of some universities are completely incomplete... I just listened. After such a cut, someone arrived, so he got out of the car and didn't finish listening to which list he was talking about.