In September 2021, Zhang Jiling, a 51-year-old accompanying mother, received an undergraduate admission letter for preschool education from Shanxi Institute of Technology and Business College.
This winter, the aunt's first semester of college has come to an end and she has posted her transcripts on social networks.
All 11 courses were passed, and 3 subjects scored more than 90 points, and Zhang Jiling was quite satisfied with her final results.
Netizen comments: Auntie is so awesome!
Dreams are always there
Zhang Jiling was not the smartest child in the family when she was a child, but she studied very hard and often won awards.
She said that from childhood to everyone's awards, many of them could not be hung on the wall. When she was in high school, she thought she would have to go to college in the future. However, unexpectedly, she failed the college entrance examination. This time the list did not make Zhang Jiling give up her "college dream".
At the age of 24, Zhang Jiling accidentally found that there was a place to recruit adult college students, and immediately signed up for the adult college entrance examination. Subsequently, Zhang Jiling received an acceptance letter from Shanxi University of Finance and Economics for adult undergraduate accounting.
At that time, I thought that I was very happy to walk into the university campus. But in my mind, a few years of adult undergraduates is not really 'college life'. In the last year of adult undergraduate, Zhang Jiling became a family, had children, and became a full-time "accompanying mother". "I had the idea of going to college again when my son was in his third year of high school." Zhang Jiling said.
That year, the son's learning pressure was particularly large, the family's tuition materials piled up a lot, the son while preparing for the college entrance examination, she also followed the study, mother and son often competed to do problems, there are many times she made it before her son.
In 2019, her son was admitted to the military academy as he wished, and Zhang Jiling was determined to regain the college dream shattered by the failure of the college entrance examination when she was young.
Two years of preparation, the final realization of the university dream
In 2020, the first college entrance examination after more than 20 years of absence, failed to go to the second main line. Zhang Jiling reported to a tuition agency and fought again the following year.
This time, she received her undergraduate acceptance letter as she wished. In June 2021, at the age of 51, she walked into the college entrance examination hall again and became the oldest "aunt candidate" in the examination room.
In August, she received an acceptance letter from Shanxi Institute of Technology and Business College majoring in preschool education.
Break through yourself and make yourself better
Before college, Zhang Jiling was a mobile hairdresser.
At the age when her peers retired, danced square dancing, and played mahjong, Zhang Jiling became the oldest of the 48 students in the class, even older than the mothers of many of her classmates, but she did not feel that she was different, and felt that she had lived a very fulfilling life.
Years of accompanying her reading career, let her develop the habit of learning, "in addition to studying, I have no other hobbies, let me sit idle and nag feel like a waste of life." 」 Zhang Jiling said.
Live to learn.
Mr. Chen Yong said in "Six Secrets of Life": "All the memories, beliefs, habits of thinking, and value judgments in our lives are the bottlenecks and spiritual shackles that affect our self-esteem! Only by always being vigilant against self-limiting thinking habits and breaking through the limitations of inherent beliefs and habits of thinking everywhere can we truly live out the excitement of life."
Human potential can be unleashed indefinitely and has nothing to do with age. As long as there is determination, there is nothing that cannot be done. Learn from this mom college student!