I wrote an article before, entitled "Guarantee Tsinghua, win all awards to study in the United States: give birth to 3 babies in 4 years, all brought back to China to study", this article is written by Li Yinuo.
After graduating from Tsinghua University, Li Yinuo won a scholarship to study for a doctorate in the United States. After graduating with a Ph.D., she went to work at McKinsey.
In 2020, 43-year-old Li Yinuo and her husband returned to China with their three children to devote themselves to the education industry.
Li Yinuo has a girlfriend, named Yan Ning, both of them were born in Shandong, they are in the same class as Tsinghua, majoring in biology.
After graduating from undergraduate, both went to the United States to study, but then their life trajectories were completely different:
After completing her studies in the United States, Yan Ning returned to teach at Tsinghua University, but at the age of 37, she returned to teach at Princeton University in the United States.
After graduating from Dr. Li Yinuo, she worked for McKinsey & Company in the United States for many years, and her work was not related to scientific research.
It was not until she was 43 years old that she returned to her motherland with her family and mouth to develop.
Although the two are so different, they have always been known as best friends, and what is even more admirable is that these two girlfriends have become the best in their respective fields.
Li Yinuo was born on November 11, 1977, and when she was 12 years old, her parents divorced, and she has lived with her mother since then.
But she has a good grandmother and a good mother, and her grandmother is very tolerant of Li Yinuo, and her only expectation is that Yinuo can eat more. Grandma was never in a hurry with her, not angry.
But what grandma and grandpa often say is: girls should be self-reliant and self-reliant.
Yinuo's mother went to the countryside at the age of 16, and three years later, she was able to return to the city and then entered a chemical factory as an ordinary worker.
At the age of 21, the university enrolled in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers College, and Yinuo's mother won the opportunity to study in the chemistry department of Shandong University.
After graduating from university, Yinuo's mother returned to the previous chemical plant, starting as a workshop director and later working her way up to chief engineer.
In 1984, in order to win a place to study in Germany, Yinuo's mother used her off-work time to learn German hard, and Yinuo was still in kindergarten at the time.
She passed the German exam and got the opportunity to study in Germany.
It can be seen that Yinuo's mother is very strong and never gives up any opportunity to improve herself.
However, in stark contrast to the smooth sailing of her career, her marriage was in shambles. When he was 12 years old, Yinuo's father and mother divorced.
However, to make matters worse, shortly after the divorce, Yinuo's mother was not used to some bad customs in the factory, and she resigned angrily.
After resigning, the house allocated in the factory had to be handed back, and Yinuo and his mother suddenly had no place to live, and had to live under the fence for several years, and their lives were also in a dilemma.
When her parents divorced, Yinuo was in adolescence, but her personality was not greatly affected, which is probably due to the strong and optimistic attitude of her mother and grandmother, which had a subtle influence on her.
When Yinuo went to school in Tsinghua, his mother and stepfather also worked in Beijing, the income was not high, and at first they rented a semi-basement, but once, when the mother and daughter went to the park to play together, they saw that they bought kiwifruit on the side of the road, and Yinuo's mother did not hesitate to give Yinuo a few kiwifruits, at that time kiwifruit was 10 yuan a catty, and Yinuo's living expenses were only a few dollars a day.
The mother said to Yinuo: It's okay, and I don't eat it often.
Yinuo's grandmother actually suffered a lot when she was young:
During three difficult years, she left food for her husband and five children, and she was so hungry that she gnawed on tree bark, and she was so hungry that she was skinny and her body was swollen, but she survived with a strong will.
When Grandma later recalled those pasts, she seemed to be light and breezy, and she planted various trees, hatched chickens and ducklings in the yard, raised goldfish, and planted flowers, all of which brought many good memories to Yinuo's childhood.
No matter how big the difficulties, grandma seems to be optimistic to face them.
Yinuo's mother's life has ups and downs, but she has always faced it with optimism, in that period of unemployment and nothing to do, she even knitted sweaters and made clothes to sell, but she never gave up her belief in life, and she was never willing to go against her heart.
At the age of 48, Yinuo's mother was hired by the German foundation as the head of China, and she ushered in the spring of her career, and her German came in handy again.
The strength and optimism of relatives have influenced Yinuo to a great extent.
Yinuo has a cheerful, sunny and confident personality, likes to make friends, and you can hardly see the traces of a single-parent family in her.
Li Yinuo once wrote:
I think this is the greatest asset parents can give their children:
A rich heart, in the face of any difficulties and troughs, believes in the belief and action of "I can",
As well as boundless love and humor for life.
It was the love of her grandmother and mother, who illuminated her childhood and adolescence, and gave her the warm undertone of life,
Let her be confident and not proud in her future interpersonal interactions, and very empathetic.
Yinuo married very early, and entered marriage with his husband, who is also a doctoral graduate, at the age of 24, and the relationship between the two has always been very stable.
Compared with Li Yinuo, Yan Ning's parents are much inferior in cultural literacy, and they are just ordinary workers in an automobile factory.
Before the age of 6, Yan Ning mainly spent time in her grandmother's house in the countryside, saying that her grandmother and grandfather basically adopted a stocking model for her.
When she was 3 years old, she liked to read comic books, other children had pocket money, they all went to buy good food, and she used her pocket money to buy comic books to read, and she showed a memory far beyond her peers at that time.
When Yan Ning was 6 years old, she was in elementary school, and her parents were working at a car factory in Beijing because of job transfers.
Her parents took her to Beijing and sent her to school, where the family was crammed into a dilapidated building in Daxing, Beijing.
Yan Ning has always been a top student in the grade from elementary school to junior high school, she is very conscious in her studies and never needs the supervision of her parents.
For learning, she always has a lot of "why" to ask the teacher, this is a thinking little girl.
She also has a wide range of interests, likes literature, loves to read famous novels, likes to listen to radio dramas, commentaries, and also likes to listen to popular music.
Her dream was to be admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University, and to become a journalist in the future and write brilliant articles.
In high school, Yan Ning was still a top student in school, and in the tense high school stage, she also liked to watch movies and cherish film and television stars.
The teacher saw that she was a little out of business, and reminded her that she should collect her heart, but she still enjoyed it. Despite her many hobbies, her grades are still excellent.
When the arts and sciences were divided, Yan Ning once wanted to study liberal arts, but the teacher strongly recommended that she study science, and felt that it was a pity for such a smart student to study liberal arts.
In this way, Yan Ning went to read science in confusion.
When applying for the college entrance examination, her parents strongly recommended that she apply for the medical major:
First, they feel that the profession of doctor is very stable, not affected by the economic cycle, and the income is good.
Second, there are relatives at home who work in the hospital, and if you take this road, you will have a guide in the future.
Yan Ning has always been a child who makes parents very worry-free since she was a child, but in college majors, she did not blindly follow.
It wasn't her dream to be a doctor, she wanted to make her mark in science.
After some thought, she chose the major of biological science, and she said to her parents:
Biological sciences and medicine are closely linked, and many scientific achievements in biology are applied to the medical field.
Her parents agreed to enroll in biology.
In the college entrance examination in 1996, Yan Ning was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent results.
In the golden autumn of this year, Yan Ning and Li Yinuo met in the Tsinghua Garden. At that time, they were all divided into six classes in the biology department.
Their dormitory is in the same building, but Yan Ning is at 117 and Li Yinuo is at 452.
In their freshman year, the two would meet in class, but their lives had no intersection and they were busy.
Yan Ning
They crossed paths in the summer of 1997 because of poor test results in calculus.
At that time, Li Yinuo only scored more than 70 points in calculus, and she decided to use her summer vacation to make up for this subject.
And Yan Ning did worse in the exam, and she also decided to stay in the dormitory and make up calculus.
Both of them were top students in their classes in high school, but they didn't expect to encounter the roadblock of calculus just after entering college, and the two of them felt that they couldn't hold on to their long-standing title of top student.
They met in the cafeteria, and most of the classmates went home during the summer vacation, and few did not come home, so they were particularly conspicuous.
That day, after eating in the cafeteria, they returned to the dormitory together, and found that both were born in Shandong, and then took out all the interesting things from their childhood to review.
The two were surprised to find that both of them missed the time they spent at their grandmother's house in their childhood, unrestrained.
In Yan Ning's eyes, Li Yinuo is very rational and precocious, and she is very planned for her future.
Li Yinuo's precocious maturity is for a reason, when she was 9 years old, she knew that her parents were unhappy together.
In Li Yinuo's eyes, Yan Ning is very sensual and literary, she is very precious to many stars in the movie, and she is especially infatuated with Jin Yong's novels.
These things, in Li Yinuo's opinion, were extremely boring before, but after they came out of Yan Ning's mouth, they were so vivid and interesting.
So, in this summer, due to the opportunity of tutoring calculus, two 19-year-old girls began to get closer to each other and began to communicate with each other.
Generally, people who have been a scholar since childhood are more or less high in their bones, and it is difficult to become best friends with the same excellent people, but Yan Ning and Yinuo can cherish each other, and the friendship between the two has been maintained for many years.
Both of them are very good and have a good look. It belongs to the kind that has both good looks and brains.
After that, they often went to the library together, went to the cafeteria together, and liked to see the beautiful women in Qinghuayuan.
Influenced by Yinuo, Yan Ning became clearer about her future plans, and she began to take the TOEFL and GRE tests with Yinuo:
They took the TOEFL in their sophomore year, and passed the GRE in their junior year.
They want to go abroad to see and see through their own efforts.
Yan Ning once said:
"I'm a very unplanned person, and I feel that plans can't keep up with changes, so I rarely plan."
Fortunately, she met Li Yinuo.
Both of them have ordinary family backgrounds, it is impossible to study abroad at their own expense, and the only thing they can strive for is a full scholarship.
Two excellent brains, coupled with extremely self-disciplined learning, when they graduated, they both got the opportunity to study abroad, and both won scholarships.
Both applied to universities in the United States, one at the University of California and the other at Princeton University.
Both received their PhDs in the United States.
There are many people in the United States who cannot graduate after seven or eight years of study. But Li Yinuo only took 4 years to get a doctorate, and the average time is 6.5 years.
As soon as Li Yinuo got his doctorate, he was snatched away by McKinsey.
While working at McKinsey, Li Yinuo, who was only 24 years old, got married.
She has always planned her life very well, and the same is true for marriage, and when she feels that it is suitable, she will go with the flow.
After Yan Ning finished her doctorate, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the United States, after which she received an invitation from Tsinghua University to return to Tsinghua University to teach.
In addition to teaching tasks, she spends her time on scientific research.
The girl who was fascinated by Jin Yong's novels was silently climbing the peak of science, and for many days and nights, she fought in the laboratory.
In 2010, Li Yinuo and Yan Ning were 33 years old.
Yan Ning was already a doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua at this time, and it was very rare for her to become a doctoral supervisor at such a young age, but she didn't seem to care about this achievement and was still working hard.
Li Yinuo had reached the partner level at McKinsey at this time, with an annual salary of one million, and her first child was born in this year.
Previously, her thoughts were:
Life is so hard, I don't even live to understand, why do you want the whole child to come out? Doesn't this bring him into the world to suffer?
Unexpectedly, after the birth of the first baby, her thoughts completely changed, she became super fond of children, and then gave birth to the second and third children.
4 years, giving birth to three babies, really hard core, this fertility achievement, in China, is absolutely leveraged.
When Li Yinuo was busy with work, busy giving birth, and struggling with breastfeeding, Yan Ning had always been addicted to scientific research, and she was too busy to fall in love.
In 2014, Yan Ning and her experimental team solved a scientific problem that has plagued the structural biology community for more than 50 years.
This subject has been a difficult bone to gnaw before:
Previously, many scientists in developed countries such as the United States, Europe, and Japan have worked hard to study this topic and have not found the answer.
Yan Ning was only 37 years old at the time, and the laboratory team she led, with an average age of less than 30, shocked the world scientific community after their research results were published in the authoritative journal "Nature".
After that, Yan Ning was invited to the United States by Princeton University.
And Yinuo soon after, also ushered in a major turning point in his life:
In 2015, the Gates Foundation invited Yinuo to join, and although her income was one-third less than McKinsey's, she gladly accepted.
She wanted to make something different.
So she resigned from McKinsey, when the eldest was less than 5 years old and the youngest was less than 1. What courage it takes.
The reason she quit her job: I found myself like a robot a lot of the time.
In 2020, Yinuo quit her job at the Gates Foundation and has a new plan---- she plans to do education in China.
Previously, her husband created a public account called "Slave Society", which operated very successfully and attracted millions of fans. This has laid a good foundation for Yinuo to engage in education.
Since then, two girlfriends, one in China and the other in the United States, have worked hard.
Although separated by a great distance, the two people often use the Internet to communicate.
Yan Ning has always been grateful in her heart for the impact of Yinuo on her life during her undergraduate years, she once said:
"She (Li Yinuo) is the backbone of my college life, I just followed her direction all the way and ran to this day."
This is the highest evaluation of a friend.
Such friendship is really enviable.
Since 2020, the Yinuo family of 5 has settled in China, and their three children have also been educated in China.
Yinuo has always had a good plan for her life, and she also has her own plan for her children's education.
She brought her children back to China for education, which shows that she is still very confident in domestic education and her own education.
And Yan Ning is still doing scientific research in the United States, she is still unmarried, she is too busy to fall in love, perhaps in her life plan, marriage or not is not important, more important is self-realization.
Although the life routes are so different, the eyes of two people are still full of appreciation when they talk about each other.
In 2014, Yan Ning resigned from Tsinghua University and returned to Princeton University as a tenured chair.
At that time, there were many people talking about this, and some people said that Yan Ning was not patriotic at all, but Li Yinuo was very open-minded about it:
"She can just like it."
Some people also asked Li Yinuo: Yan Ning is over 40 years old, and she has not considered marriage, as her good friend, why don't you persuade her?
Yinuo replied very calmly: "That's her life, what am I worried about?" ”
This is hardcore friendship, and I understand you no matter what choice you make, even if people all over the world don't understand you.
Yan Ning himself is also very strong in his heart: "I don't get married, and I don't owe anyone an explanation." ”
This is a hardcore answer from someone who is very clear about their goals.
Who dictates that women must have children?
Who says women can't excel in scientific research?
She has been refreshing people's old ideas.
She has been trying to do what she can do, not setting limits for herself, not putting herself into the mold of society.
Just like Li Yinuo, when she entered McKinsey, her husband has been tinkering with various entrepreneurial projects, but many projects have failed, and Yinuo did not say much, she was the main source of stable income for the family at that time.
She let her husband try, entrepreneurship is risky, once successful, the previous failure has meaning. She has also been refreshing everyone's stereotypes:
Who says a woman can't support a family?
Who said that children from single-parent families will not be happy in their marriages in the future?
In the end, her husband found the public account project, and then it was a great success, gaining a million-level subscription.
These two Tsinghua girlfriends both have maverick ideas, and they are not in the clouds, and they are pursuing the ultimate in their respective fields.
Although the trajectories are different, the core of life has striking similarities:
Like a tree, climb to a height that you can reach, without setting limits for yourself.
Just today, the press announced that Yan Ning has quit his full-time job in the United States and is preparing to return to China for development.
This is exciting news that she will bring with her experience at a world-class university to contribute to her country.
Yan Ning and Li Yinuo, these two best friends, although their personalities and life trajectories are different, but in the end, they returned to China and developed on the same path.
Their careers are wonderful.
Their fate is wonderful.
Their friendship is indestructible.
Their stories will continue.
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