The word "involution" has become popular recently. The original intention of "involution" refers to the phenomenon that human society stagnates or cannot be transformed into another advanced model after reaching a certain form at a certain stage of development. Recently, however, the word has been widely circulated among college students, causing waves of online discussions. As colleges and universities enter the "strict" era, the days when college students can graduate by rowing are gone forever. Many college students said that the popularity of involution is not only a self-mockery of college students, but also a true portrayal of their academic and self-development pressures. How to solve "involution" is also a life topic that every college student needs to complete. How many kinds of operations are there in the "inner volume" in the university? Speaking of "involution", the earliest "source" is a few pictures of famous schools. A few pictures of college students exploding their circle of friends are like this: some people are reading books on bicycles, some dormitory beds are full of books, and some even write papers on computers while riding bicycles. These photos were first circulated among the principals of Tsinghua Peking University. Later, popular words such as "watching computer while riding a bike" and "Tsinghua Wang Juan" appeared in hot searches, and related emoticons also appeared in many social software for college students. By interviewing many college students and college teachers, the reporter found that "involution" among college students is a common phenomenon. Shi Keyu is a senior in Renmin University of China. She used an example to illustrate "involution". "For example, the teacher's requirement for paper assignments is about 5,000 words, but many people choose to write 8000 to 10000 words or more in order to achieve better results. In the end, almost everyone's homework greatly exceeded the teacher's requirements, and the proportion of students who can get full marks is fixed. " "This means that in terms of paper assignments, the results far exceeding the requirements are similar to those just reaching the standard, because everyone has generally made more efforts, but their final income has not increased significantly." Shi Keyu said. Yang Kai (pseudonym), a science major from Peking University, said that involution is very common among students with excellent academic performance. "Maybe I studied for an hour at the earliest, and my classmate studied for an hour and a half. Later, he scored one more point than me. Now, my classmates have studied for five and a half hours. I can't help it After studying for five hours, he finally got one more point than me. From the results, nothing has changed, but we are all involved in this life. " Yang Kai said. Wang Yang (pseudonym) is a student of a 985 university in Beijing. Recalling an assignment in the summer vacation of my freshman year, Wang Yang was still very emotional: "It was the busiest week for my undergraduate four years except preparing for graduation design." At that time, Wang Yang's homework was to make an electronic calendar with what he had learned. The grading standard of homework is: the more calendar functions students submit, the higher the score, and the works with the highest score are rated as full marks. In this case, in order to get better grades, students try their best to get their works close to the highest score. This means that as long as there is room for repair, they will continue to add new functions to their electronic calendars. "So, everyone has been improving their homework, doing it, and doing it. Almost everyone has completed the last homework date. " Wang Yang said: "And we were only freshmen at that time!" Recently, Chen Jiaying of Fudan University Law School also reluctantly "rolled" into an exam. "I have been hesitating whether to apply for the National Computer Rank Examination. A voice told me that the exam had little to do with my major, so it was unnecessary. If I start preparing now, I may take up more time that should have been used to conquer professional courses; Another voice told me: if I pass the computer exam, I can get another skill certificate, which will be reflected in various resumes as a competitive plus item, making me more competitive than others in job hunting. " Finally, Chen Jiaying decided to apply for the exam and immediately began to prepare for the exam. "involution", ineffective consumption or competitiveness? If we analyze the reasons behind involution, we can't do without one word: competition. After entering the university, everyone's definition of "Excellence" has become diversified, and college students' choices for their own academic development and future life planning are much richer than those in middle school. However, there will always be more "powerful" people in every road: to do scientific research, it is more important for someone to publish more papers; Want to play clubs, some people have higher interest and higher professional level; Looking for a job, some people have accumulated more certificates and experience on their resumes. Under such circumstances, the involution of college students is also a normal response to competitive pressure. Earlier, some media reported the phenomenon that "grade point is king" in top universities in China, and claimed that many students in top universities were confused by "involution". "The smartest young people in China have successfully overwhelmed their growth in extreme competition, and their peers have been exhausted by PK." Some college students think that competition has always existed, and the discussion about "involution" on the Internet is more about selling anxiety. He is a master student in the Department of Precision Instruments of Tsinghua University Institute of Mechanical Engineering, and he is a fellow student of "Tsinghua Learning God". "The classmate who rides a bike and doesn't forget to watch the computer, his learning attitude is very practical, and I admire him very much. He is actually not the kind of' genius' that netizens ridicule, but he has always done his job step by step. " He Rusong said, "He actually has all kinds of entertainment activities, which can not only study hard, but also have fun. I think this mentality is very good. " He has spent four years in Tsinghua campus. In retrospect, he felt that he didn't obviously feel involution. "The students around me didn't feel involved. Maybe we are all Buddhists. As for those "big bosses" who are particularly powerful, they are already very capable, so what are we talking about? Through ordinary efforts, I can achieve what I want to accomplish. But if there is too much competition sometimes, then I will give up directly. " He said to Rusong. He believes that the discussion on "involution" on the Internet is essentially based on selling anxiety, and there are few rational expressions. Most people only pay attention to the fierce competition under involution, but do nothing in real life and continue to be "salted fish" "For most people, competition already exists. If you want to go higher, you have to work harder than others. It's no use talking. It's better to spend more time in the library. " How not to be "crushed"? Competition is not quantity competition. Nowadays, the word "out of the circle" and "in the volume" among college students appear in all walks of life and become synonymous with social pressure that has nowhere to release. It is often said that the university is a small society, and it is an important topic for college students who are experiencing involution to treat it correctly and get rid of it. When the university enters the era of "strictness", strict control of teaching and increasing the burden for college students become the key work of the university, and college students naturally feel greater academic pressure. Pressure is not an excuse to escape, and proper academic burden is a good medicine to help college students grow up. However, how to treat such pressure positively requires not only the self-regulation of college students, but also the corresponding guidance of colleges and universities. "When students talk about the inner volume, they often want to express such a confusion: they are very busy and study hard, but it seems that there is not much breakthrough or improvement." Yang Chen, an associate professor at the School of Journalism, Renmin University of China, told reporters. Confusion about the future and the present has caused many college students to fall into involution. In 20 19, a survey conducted by Peking University Institute of Education showed that 29.2% of the undergraduates surveyed did not have a clear self-development plan, and their independent academic participation was low. Although 32.8% students have clear self-development goals, they are lagging behind. In undergraduate colleges, nearly 42% students have no clear career plans for the future. Yang Chen said that "involution" itself is an academic concept of anthropology, which was first put forward by anthropologist Gilte. In China, Huang Zongzhi, a historical sociologist, first used "involution" to study the small-scale peasant economy in the Yangtze River Delta during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some students regard involution as competition and think that high-intensity competition makes people exhausted. Strictly speaking, this understanding is actually divorced from the original intention of Gilte and Huang Zongzhi. Yu Hanyu, a counselor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Hunan University, found that many college students looking for jobs often fall into involution. "Now, this involution expresses an endless cycle of energy consumption. In fact, as a counselor, I personally can understand this kind of competition and a certain degree of comparison psychology, but now in the process of communicating with students, we even hope that students should consciously think and not let themselves enter this gyro-like infinite loop. " Yu Hanyu said. Yu Hanyu said that he often emphasized to students that they should have "thinking consciousness". In her view, many university exams are not quantitative competition, so students should jump out of the inherent thinking mode and the highly comprehensive competition they think, calm down, analyze themselves inward, then analyze the overall competitive environment outward, and combine with the general trend to exercise and develop themselves. Yang Chen believes that it is a challenge for individuals and the whole society to face involution. She said: "Students need to understand' what kind of person I want to be'; The makers and executors of educational policies, as well as parents of students, need to think clearly about' what kind of talents our educational goal is to cultivate' and' what kind of people we want to see our children become'. " Source: Modern reading