What I am teaching you now is just enough for you to stand at the small entrance of the mathematical world. I don't know where the entrance is, so I can't get in naturally. I just want to make sure you know where the entrance is.
Education is the same, it is like a passport, which gives us the opportunity to choose different entrances and be allowed to enter.
And what can a prestigious school bring us besides its glamorous academic qualifications?
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Recently, the variety show "Exciting offer2" was broadcast. In the first interview session of the program, eight interns competed for internship opportunities in a well-known law firm.
Zhan: Bachelor from China University of Political Science and Law, public communication experience from Berkeley University, California, USA, and Master from Georgetown University, USA.
Li Jinye: Bachelor's degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University and Master's degree from Georgetown University.
Lawrence Wang: Bachelor of International Relations, sent to Beijing Normal University for a master's degree in international law and a master's degree in Stanford University.
Hui Ding: Bachelor of Changshu Institute of Technology (Illegal Studies), Master of East China University of Political Science and Law.
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Hui Ding studied in an unknown university as an undergraduate. During the interview, the interviewer even bluntly said, "If it weren't for recording the program, I guess I would have been screened out in the personnel department."
Although I don't want to agree with the practice of "only academic qualifications", the reality is so cruel.
Recently, an online defense meeting for the 2020 Tsinghua University Scholarship (undergraduate) exploded.
At the scene of the defense, Tsinghua students talked with Kan Kan calmly and confidently, showing the style of a famous school.
The resumes of these candidates have attracted the attention of countless netizens.
Cai, from the Department of Automation, won the second prize in the 37th Challenge Cup of Tsinghua University, studied Chinese language and literature as a second degree, published children's literature, and even won a soft scholarship.
Xie, from the School of Humanities, won the scholarship of "Hua Ying Scholar" and held an important position in various activities of the school.
Chen Yixian, from the Department of Physics, was praised by the professor as the best student in northern Qing Dynasty in recent ten years. As the first author, he published three papers with excellent English and won the national English speech contest. ......
The significance of reading is not what we read, but that it makes us better.
Xunzi said: "It is unnatural to live in Chu and Chu, to live in the more and more, and to live in summer and summer, but also because of accumulation."
People's habits are really influenced by the environment.
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The harder you work, the fairer the world will be.
There is a very interesting phenomenon.
In some second-and third-tier universities, libraries are often empty and will only be full when exams are near. However, in Tsinghua, Peking University, Cambridge, Harvard and other world-class universities, there are still people who stay up late reading until two or three in the morning and are packed.
TED has a lecture on "Where do people who don't study lose?" The speaker is a graduate of Cambridge University.
At the beginning, the speaker said, "You can learn about a person by reading the books in his bookcase."
One day, she suddenly found that almost all the books she read were books from Britain and surrounding areas, which made her realize that she had a blind spot in knowledge.
So, she made an exclusive plan of "high-intensity reading world", listed a complete list of 196 countries in Cambridge Library, and tried to read books from various countries.
In just a few years, she has changed from a "literary xenophobic" who knows nothing to a writer who has read all the books in the world.
In the first stage of reading, the most important thing is not to be conceited, but to take root.
Fan Zhongyan studied hard in Nanjun for five years, lived on gruel every day, and didn't take off his clothes or sleep well.
Su Dongpo always copied and recited the classics until he knew them by heart.
Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar in the Han Dynasty, studied hard all his life, never peeked at the garden for three years and sharpened his sword for ten years.
There has never been an achievement for nothing, and there has never been a casual success.
Behind every progress is a step by step effort.
All roads lead to Rome. Some people were born in Rome.
Born in Rome? As long as you work hard enough and have broad vision and ambition, why can't you be all-powerful in Rome?
When you are strong, the whole world will be good to you.
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The starting point of vision comes from education, and the education of famous schools will make your vision broader and the pattern bigger.
After 90, he has big eyes, high nose, tall figure and handsome face. However, he is not a "small fresh meat" in your eyes, but a "ruthless role" with multiple identities.
In 2008, he was admitted to Yale University in the United States, becoming the first undergraduate admitted to Fujian, China in the past 300 years. At the same time, he also has a full scholarship of more than $55,000 a year.
After entering Yale, he studied with great people from all over the world every day, which not only broadened his horizons, but also allowed him to constantly update his learning methods and establish a systematic way of thinking.
20 13 joined Goldman Sachs, the world's top investment bank, and became a star analyst with an annual salary of nearly one million.
In 20 14, he was selected as the world's outstanding youth in the World Economic Forum.
20 15, he chose to quit his job to start a business and live for his "love".
In 20 16, in order to get better intellectual and financial support for the company, he successfully applied for Harvard MBA.
Now, he is a partner of a startup company, a young investor, a best-selling author with millions of fans, and a "schoolmaster" of Harvard.
Famous schools not only give students stepping stones and admission tickets, but also give them contacts, circles and resources.
As "The Spirit of New Oriental" wrote: "You should use the standards of cattle people to demand yourself, keep moving forward among cattle people and narrow the distance with them. When you think you can be one of them, you can become a real cow. "
Even if a prestigious school can't guarantee the upper limit of life, it won't let you down.
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This world is that some people always work hard day and night, and some people wake up to find that the world has changed.
The books you read determine your pattern; The school you go to determines who you associate with.
May you take dreams as a horse, live up to your youth, forge ahead, and have a promising future.