Do you still remember the classmate who was reported by a classmate for secretly doing nail art and still can't know if the UK student visa has been revoked?
Do you remember that a certain loser at Deloitte was unwilling to anonymously report Chinese cheating, resulting in a large number of compatriot offers being withdrawn or even expelled?
Over the past few months, we have already written about the backstabbing of compatriots more than once, and today here comes another whistleblower story.
I heard that a few days ago, a staggering thing happened in the British study abroad circle, and the well-known university UCL suddenly asked for further materials from students who had already received offers. Those who are familiar with the application for studying in the UK should know that submitting relevant materials should be a step before getting an offer, since the offer has been received, why would the school suddenly come to the door again to ask for information? Could it be that the school wants to withdraw the offer? Why does UCL suddenly have such a commotion?
Parents go crazy and the school is back
This is how it all began, and it is said that there is such a parent mother, and what happened to her daughter recently made it difficult for her to accept, so she decided to take revenge on society with a series of crazy acts.
Because his daughter's application for UCL (University College London) was rejected, the parent was very unconvinced, her daughter is so good, they usually don't look down on UCL, if it weren't for the rejection of Cambridge, Oxford, these top universities, she would never put down her body to apply for UCL as a guaranteed school, how dare a school like UCL not want her daughter, why send a rejection letter.
By the way, here is the UCL's world ranking last year:
A normal person's brain circuit should be based on reason, and find the school's admissions department to reconsider the rejection letter to see if there is any possibility to reverse the situation. But this parent is by no means a normal person, she did go to the school to theorize, but the way she theorized really made people not love it at all, so what did she do?
This parent searched frantically on Xiaohongshu, searched through all the students who had posted UCL's offers in the same class, and asked them one by one in private messages, if they could tell themselves what their backgrounds were (grades, internship experience, graduation schools, etc.), and by the way, could they send themselves their application materials.
Some kind-hearted and unsuspecting classmates stupidly sent all their relevant materials to this parent, and then this parent carefully compared, and even made an excel sheet, putting all the people who were not as good as their daughter's grades on it.
Then, the most desperate thing came, this parent wrote a long email, she questioned the admissions standards of the school's admissions department, thinking that it was very unfair for them to reject their daughter, why? Because those who have worse academic performance than their daughters have received offers from the school, why are people with excellent academic performance like their daughters rejected by the school, she is not convinced!
In order to further prove that he was not talking nonsense, the parent also attached screenshots of the application materials of those students whose grades were not as good as their daughter's, and wanted to slap UCL in the face: Look, I'm not talking nonsense.
The school has been questioned by parents, and they will not sit idly by, and still need to ensure the fairness of admissions. As a result, the school spent a lot of time doing background research, which led to the occurrence of the things mentioned at the beginning, and UCL asked the student who sent the offer to ask for further materials.
In addition, it has also affected those who have not yet received the results of their applications, and schools have become more cautious about making offers, and even stopped issuing offers for a while. This has also led to longer waiting times for applicants, and many students are complaining that their applications have been submitted for a long time, and there is still no result, so they can only wait in endless anxiety.
It is really a normal thing to be rejected when applying to study abroad, and who hasn't had the experience of being rejected these years. But this parent feels that his child is the center of the world, and the whole earth must revolve around his child, focusing on something that cannot be obtained by others.
When this parent reported others, she had an extremely narrow gaze, she only knew that everything was measured by grades, and thought that if her daughter had good grades, the school should admit her, but she didn't know that the admissions officer looked at the comprehensive quality and strength of a student, and whether the student was suitable for the school, and good grades did not represent everything.
I believe that this parent must not feel that there is any problem with this approach, but think that the school has not handled it fairly. Such people have their own set of rules of conduct for doing things, and even if they do something wrong, they will find various reasons to rationalize their mistakes.
Just because his children were not admitted, so many students were implicated. Such a parent does not dare to imagine what her home education will be like, selfish and selfish, dragging innocent people into the water. Parents are a mirror of their children, and those who can behave like this, and the children are rejected, it can only be said that the admissions officer's eyes are like torches, and they have already seen through everything, and this is believed to be a good rejection.
Something happened to the offer in the circle of friends
This is not the first time that the school has been alarmed by an offer, and some time ago, an admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was also reported to the school because of the offer.
Needless to say, being admitted to MIT is really a happy event that the family can take to it for several years. At that time, three students from Chinese mainland were successfully admitted to MIT, among which Li from Beijing Normal University was the only female student among the three.
Li's parents shared the good news with their friends and relatives in a small range of friends, but they didn't expect to be screenshotted and posted on the Internet. And so, the show begins.
At that time, many people questioned how Li could be admitted to MIT with average high school grades, and it must have been a fraud! With Li's mediocre qualifications, how could he be worthy of applying for MIT's strongest mathematics and computer science majors. Even if you question Li's grades, there are even people who question that Li is not Chinese. For a while, rumors spread everywhere, and many people were cyberbullying this extremely excellent girl.
Some parents even reported Li to the MIT admissions office and asked them to revoke her offer. The voices on the Internet scolded more and more ugly, forcing Li to go down to Zhihu in person to post a long article to explain.
Even now, there are still many people who are bullying classmate Li online.
If you are interested in this matter, you can read our previous articles:
Chinese parents show off that their children have been admitted to MIT, and they are frantically reported, and even more fierce news is dug up!
Is it wrong to bask in life?
If this continues, will we dare to post our lives on social media in the future?
There are many people who will say that if they don't post it in the circle of friends, there won't be so many moths, Li's mother won't post it on the Internet if she doesn't post it on the circle of friends, and those who get an offer from UCL won't be targeted if they don't post it on a red book.
But can we really hide everything and isolate ourselves completely? Since when has it become an original sin to expose one's own life?
In such an era of extremely developed networks, we have long been accustomed to moving everything that happens in our real lives to the virtual Internet and sharing it with many people we don't know.
There's nothing wrong with finally getting an offer from your favorite school and posting the good news on social media, it's a kind of certification that your past efforts have now paid off, and it would be great if you could still get everyone's blessings.
But now, again and again, there are cases of bad things happening because of posting your life on the Internet, and we really can't predict what these lives we post will bring us, and many people have PTSD.
Now, no matter what you post on the Internet, if you are not careful, you will be used as evidence to slander you by people with ulterior motives. Anything said will be considered evidence in court.
Because such things have happened many times, many friends have said that they no longer dare to post any good things on social media, and there are always some people who can't see your goodness. After all, people are separated from each other, and I don't know if I will lose my job, lose my offer, or be cyberbullied because of these things I posted on social media. This may also be the reason why many friends are reluctant to open up their circle of friends or change their screen name to momo.
"There are always people who want to harm me", this is really not a joke, maybe our little publicity on social media will become a weapon to hurt ourselves in the future.
Jealousy makes people lose their minds, and jealousy makes people unrecognizable. But jealousy doesn't make people who are already strong weak, maybe reporting will add to your opponent's blockage, but just by reporting this road, maybe you are still far from success.
When we see others sharing good news on the Internet, we should feel happy, we should be glad that there is still a group of people who are not afraid of the darkness and share their successful experience with others, because how many thunders will be stepped on the road to success, how many detours will be taken, these successful people have told us, the purpose is to let you stop stepping on the thunder, do not walk into that dead end again.
If these joyful experiences are seen as endless show-offs by those who have little bellies, and instead use the road of reporting to stifle others from sharing successful experiences, then who will defray for us in the future? Who will dare to speak out on social media in the future?
These ill-intentioned people, when you use the one-click reporting function, you also kill your countless possibilities for the future.
Write at the end
Of course, we're not calling for people not to report. For things that are contrary to public order and good customs, we hope to mobilize the power of the masses, and everyone can report it. But if it's just for your own selfish desires to see the good of others, report others, and the tool of reporting will be abused. When an instrument of public opinion is abused, it loses the role it was supposed to do.
I hope that everyone can become a person with a big picture and a high vision.