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Tsinghua University has always been the dream of most students, everyone wants to fight, and some people even have 15 years of youth for this.
And this person is Tang Shangjun, since 2009, his life has been circulating in repeating, and he has taken the college entrance examination a total of 15 times.
During this period, China University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing University, Xiamen University and other universities all handed him admission notices, but he decisively refused.
Others have experienced a year of "fighting", but he has been circulating for 15 years, and it was not until this year that he suddenly woke up, and it turned out that he was 35 years old.
But just when he was about to accept his fate and enter the Normal University with a score of 594, he was rejected by four colleges in a row.
What is going on here, and will he choose to continue to take the college entrance examination this year?
(The information in this article is from official media, and it has been repeated at the end)
A life of circulation
In 2016, a documentary about "High Ten" became popular, and Tang Shangjun, as the protagonist, also became the object of everyone's conversation after dinner.
Some people laughed at him, some people felt sorry for him, and some people sighed for the stubbornness of a "genius".
That year was also Tang Shangjun's 7th college entrance examination, and for most people, they couldn't withstand the pressure from the outside world or even their parents after repeating for more than three years.
No one knows how he persevered 7 times, and in the past seven years, his results have improved from 372 points in the first college entrance examination failure to 625 points.
Such a score has already surpassed the scores of most universities, and Tang Shangjun has also received an admission letter from China University of Political Science and Law.
He was 27 years old at the time, and if he could choose this university, there would be a good way out in the future, and everyone would think that his path of repetition would probably end this year.
(Tang Shangjun's 15 college entrance examination scores)
However, everyone guessed wrong, Tang Shangjun not only gave up the first high score of 600 in 7 years, but also chose to return to repeat again.
His decision shocked everyone, and even Tang Shangjun's parents were speechless, they were looking forward to their children being admitted to Tsinghua University, but after so many years, they could have a university to study.
But Tang Shangjun is so stubborn, from the beginning his purpose of repeating his studies was to be admitted to Tsinghua University, and after persisting for so many years, how could he give up?
In fact, when Tang Shangjun scored 600 points for the first time, he realized that his score was rising every year, and it was close for him to stick to Tsinghua University a little longer.
Indeed, his score in the next few college entrance examinations was stable at 600 points, but Tsinghua University always had a gap of several points with him.
At that time, Tang Shangjun's father suffered from cancer, and he persuaded Tang Shangjun several times not to repeat his studies, there is not only one way out for people, Tsinghua is a dream, but there is no way for people in this life after all, every dream can be realized.
These words made Tang Shangjun think for a long time, every time he lay in the dormitory of high school, he looked at everything he was familiar with, as if everything was changing, and only he was alone Time stood still.
He wondered if he had done it wrong in the first place, a third of his life had passed, and he had spent most of his time doing one thing over and over again.
Everyone persuaded him to give up, but after so many years of perseverance, how could he be willing to let go like this, this kind of entanglement was actually very painful in his heart.
On the one hand, it is a dream that I have been chasing for many years, and on the other hand, it is the passage of time and age.
In the end, Tang Shangjun still made the decision to continue repeating, but since the 13th college entrance examination, his score has dropped below 600 points.
was originally only 50 points away from Tsinghua University, but now it has returned to the prototype, and the "gambling" of the college entrance examination is about to shatter Tang Shangjun's self-confidence.
And Tang Shangjun has been so stubborn for so many years, in fact, there are traces to follow when he was a child...
Stubbornness: Is it right or wrong?
"Knowledge changes fate" This is what Tang Shangjun's father frequently said in his ear when he was very young,
And Tsinghua became a target, not what he had in mind at the beginning.
Tang Shangjun, who was still in elementary school at the time, heard from his neighbors every once in a while that the new road leading from the village to the town was built by a college student from the same village.
And the school he graduated from is Tsinghua University, which is an unattainable dream for many people, and Tang Shangjun's thoughts are also quietly changing.
For him, the definition of success is to be admitted to Tsinghua University and one day return to his hometown to benefit the villagers.
At that time, he said that he wanted to take the Tsinghua University exam, but Tang Shangjun's grades have always been very good, and the villagers feel that this baby has ambition, and maybe he can really achieve a great career.
Perhaps everyone has great expectations for him, so Tang Shangjun is also very strict with himself, and he must study the best in junior high school and high school to have a chance to be admitted to Tsinghua University.
This was the beginning of his stubbornness, and after that, Tang Shangjun's paranoid personality became more obvious.
When he was in junior high school, Tang Shangjun came into contact with a game where he wrote from the number 1 to 500, and as long as there was no error in the middle, he could win back a camera.
If there is a mistake, then a fee of 20 yuan will be charged, Tang Shangjun fell in love with the camera and decided to give it a go.
However, after a failure, his two days of living expenses were spent, and normally most people would wave their hands if they lost once, but Tang Shangjun was different, he had to get the camera.
After that, he tried several times frequently, but finally failed, and when a month's living expenses were almost spent, he realized that he could no longer be persistent.
In the second year of junior high school, Tang Shangjun's grades were still top in the school, ranking in the top three on the list almost all year round, but it was also from this year that he became more obsessed with pursuing freedom in the outside world.
Exploration, mountaineering, and traveling became one of his hobbies, and he would set out to climb mountains with a classmate who shared the same hobby every weekend.
For Tang Shangjun, the one thing he chooses to do should be insisted, which is what he has always asked of himself, and it is also a stubbornness in his character.
So every time he climbed the mountain, he was able to climb all the way from morning to evening, and he didn't plan to go back when it was dark, because the goal of the day had not been achieved.
His classmates dissuaded him several times but never thought of turning back, and his stubbornness also made the two go out of different lives.
Will it continue to persevere?
In fact, when he got to the back, Tang Shangjun himself was tired, and his persistence was not just for a dream, but a self-proof stubbornness.
He still has a pride in his bones, the goal he set when he was a child was Tsinghua University, and everyone was full of expectations for him, but he seemed to have forgotten that no one had ever asked him to have Tsinghua in the future.
He has been pushing himself all along, and the more he gets to the back, the more he wants to prove himself, but everything around him is changing.
The marriage of his brother and sister made him in a trance, and the classmates who once stood on the same starting line with him graduated from different universities and even achieved a career.
Over the years, he has participated in many wedding banquets, and seeing that everyone's faces are no longer green, he is always stunned if he is the only one standing still.
So when he took the college entrance examination for the 15th time, he ruthlessly crossed out Tsinghua University's ambition and chose four normal universities.
After all, he was 34 years old at the time, and it seemed that only the teacher's path was the most suitable for him, and this time his score came out with 594 points.
Completely reached the standard line of volunteering to attend several normal colleges, and just when he confidently thought that he had finally let go of his college life, a huge blow once again pulled him into the abyss.
Even though his cut-off score was already 20 points higher than that of the four universities, the final result was that he was withdrawn from Central China Normal University, which means that he was not admitted to the school this time.
The real reason for this is not his age, but his refusal to adjust is clearly written on his volunteer, which made him miss the university again in the 15th college entrance examination.
For Tang Shangjun, it was not easy for him to convince himself to accept the result that he failed to be admitted to Tsinghua University in the end, and he was even ready to become a teacher in the future, but in the end he fell off the list.
The frustration again and again made Tang Shangjun lose confidence, and he recalled several times that he still felt a pity when he gave up the opportunity.
In fact, when Tang Shangjun scored 625 points for the first time, he was admitted to the University of Political Science and Law, and he considered whether to step on the university campus at that time, but his father's sudden cancer broke his plan.
He needed a sum of money for treatment, and although he was subsidized for a few years of repetition, the living expenses on weekdays still consumed a lot of money from the family.
In order to save a sum of money for his father's surgery, when Tang Shangjun saw the subsidy for Nanning Pingguo No. 3 Middle School to recruit repeat students, he was moved, and immediately decided to give up the University of Political Science and Law and choose to repeat again.
"If you score more than 600 points, you will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan and a monthly subsidy of 2,000 yuan for living expenses; Those who repeat the examination in Qingbei will be rewarded with another 600,000 yuan. ”
For 100,000, Tang Shangjun once again made a new decision for his life, but he didn't know that this time the change made his understanding circulate until he was 35 years old.
Until the failure of the 2023 college entrance examination, Tang Shangjun's whole person already looked a little depressed.
(The Paper-2021.11-22)
This year, Tang Shangjun's fame on the Internet is also quite large, and everyone's evaluation of him is mixed.
Because of frequent repetition, he needs some living expenses, after all, he is a 35-year-old adult, so he can't still reach out to his parents to ask for it.
So Tang Shangjun opened his own social media account, because he didn't need to attract fans after 15 college entrance examination experiences, and he already had a group of people who took the initiative to follow him.
(Tang Shangjun's personal Douyin account)
In just one year, Tang Shangjun's fans have reached 400,000, and he knows that there are many people who watch his jokes here, but there are also many people who understand him and encourage him.
The most he heard was that even if he graduated from college, he was already forty years old, stuck in the most embarrassing position of middle-aged people before entering and leaving society, and he couldn't do anything big.
Standing with those fresh graduates who are nearly twenty years younger than him, Tang Shangjun's advantages are all submerged, and his next road is difficult.
Tang Shangjun listened to these words, but he didn't think that his future had been determined, who said that the beginning of life must be twenty years old, even if he is 40 years old, he should not be eliminated by society.
But to be honest, he has been able to persist for so many years, and his patience alone has surpassed most ordinary people, and he is ready to take the college entrance examination in 2024.
This time may be his last time to fight for the college entrance examination, I hope he can step out of the cycle of repetition and enter the campus of the university, maybe he will have a different way of thinking about life.
What kind of results he will achieve in this year's college entrance examination, we will wait and see!
Resources:
After 14 consecutive years of taking the exam, he gave up studying at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and the 33-year-old man prepared to take the college entrance examination for the 15th time (Guangming.com)
Jimu News: For 15 years of the Tsinghua college entrance examination, Tang Shangjun: Trapped in a stagnant life of repetition
https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1773287036638109603&wfr=spider&for=pc
Beijing News: "Exam Master" Tang Shangjun announced that he would continue to repeat: there is no choice but to fight for another year
https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1775429056875194317&wfr=spider&for=pc
Binzhou Internet Police: He announced that he would continue to repeat his studies and open the 16th college entrance examination
https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1775622172720651273&wfr=spider&for=pc