- Freshman year
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- Feels the same
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Actually, there isn’t much difference; you could say we overestimated the sources of social and information channels, and as we kept going, we ended up in a completely non‑social loop of self‑isolation… I can already see the end.
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Why are you still voting 
I didn’t originally have high expectations for college life, but my high school teachers would always tell me, when I was about to give up, that college is very free: you can use your phone, you can date freely, you can join many student organizations, you can participate in many activities, you can meet many friends…
I gradually developed some expectations, but after entering university I participated in many activities (mostly makeshift groups), joined many organizations (like a corrupt bureaucracy), met many people (which doesn’t mean I have many friends), and it wasn’t any different from high school (in high school you could also play on your phone on weekends, and there was no explicit ban on dating). It’s just a different environment and different people around me, and it feels bland. University also brings higher pressure and higher academic demands—why should I attend this university?
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I never imagined college life when I was in high school.
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To have four relatively ample years to construct my own world model through reading and experience.
Nothing is eternal. Among Chinese wealthy, 90% do not stay rich beyond one generation.
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Just thinking that what we learn in college has absolutely nothing to do with getting a job makes me want to laugh.
And it also has nothing to do with academia, which makes it even funnier.
I reread Dong Wu’s graduate‑school memoirs and realized that the graduate phase is different from what I imagined.
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Could you discuss it in detail?
Actually, it’s no different from fantasies at any other time; we always think that once we reach a certain stage in life, life will finally be our own, and we can spend our time on the places we want to dive into. However, we find that during graduate school it’s entirely possible to face many frustrating situations, such as projects not being chosen by ourselves, being assigned unrealistic interdisciplinary tasks, and being threatened with delayed graduation.
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Does your experience resemble that article?
I feel that most groups aren’t that extreme or odd.
No, still an undergraduate
The new fantasies constructed from other people’s experiences replace the old ones, and they are all unrealistic. Most graduate students around me have a decent experience.
It’s not really about replacing, just trying to consider things more comprehensively?