China News Network Chengdu, September 11 Title: College entrance examination 623 points takeaway brother returns to school: rather than regret the past, more willing to invest in the present
Author Chen Jing He Shaoqing
"Xicai has a quiet environment, very suitable for studying, walking into the campus, my heart is quiet at once." Sitting in the last row of the large classroom of the Jingshi Building of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 26-year-old Wang Wei is attending the 2021 Xicai Finance College class meeting. Unlike most of the excitement of the new students, he was very calm, just listening to the counselor's introduction of the school and college overview, dormitory safety, student management regulations, and first-year course selection suggestions. He had experienced all this 8 years ago.
Previously, the story of takeaway rider Wang Wei became popular on the Internet. Born in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, he was admitted to China Agricultural University majoring in food science and engineering in 2013, dropped out of school for personal reasons in 2017, and has worked in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hubei and other places. In 2021, he chose to retake the college entrance examination and achieved an excellent score of 623 points, and was admitted to the finance major of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. When the media and netizens lamented his inspirational experience, he called himself a "negative teaching material" to remind everyone to take it as a warning.
Wang Wei photographed the southwest university of finance and finance campus. Courtesy of Wang Wei
"I did waste eight years, and now all kinds of growth feelings are an afterthought, and I can't deny the reality ahead." Wang Wei reflected in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Network that after entering the university in 2013, the evaluation system based on high school achievements became more diverse, and he seemed to have lost his position at once, and the huge gap made him feel unable to feel the "sense of existence", so he was very depressed, lost and confused.
For a long time in his sophomore year, Wang Wei invested more than 10 hours a day in computer games, and because of this, day and night were reversed, and his studies were abandoned. In 2017, because there were too many courses left behind, Wang Wei received a withdrawal notice from the school. "I realized it was dangerous at first, but then there was a feeling that I could mix a day and a day. When I received the withdrawal notice, I knew I couldn't fool myself. ”
After dropping out of school, Wang Wei worked as a primary school tutor and a garment factory porter. He gradually found that academic qualifications greatly limited his job choices, and the seeds of re-reading continued to sprout in his mind. In June last year, after the epidemic was effectively controlled, Wang Wei entered the "more work and more" takeaway industry, and he planned to save a tuition fee for himself.
Unexpectedly, Wang Wei encountered setbacks on the first day of entering the industry. When delivering the first takeaway, Wang Wei was fined 20 yuan by the traffic police for retrograde, and criticized the education on the spot, which also delayed the subsequent order. "I was fined for not making a penny, and I wanted to give up." But when he woke up the next morning and thought about the more than 1,000 yuan it cost to rent a car to rent a battery and buy equipment, he decided to "try again.".
Wang Wei is good at observation, analysis, and summary, and he quickly became familiar with food delivery routes and cycling techniques, and could work 14 to 16 hours a day. The longest working hours, he worked from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m. the next day, and his order volume for the month ranked fourth at more than 100 people's takeaway sites. On average, he can run 30 to 40 orders a day and earn more than 5,000 yuan per month.
During his time as a takeaway rider, Wang Wei tried to use fragmented time to study, but because the efficiency was too low, he gave up the idea of "half work and half reading" and decided to repeat the third (14) class of Tian Jia Ping Middle School in Xiangyang City to prepare for the exam wholeheartedly. "The experience of delivering food has also honed my patience and physical fitness, and I can guarantee efficient study throughout the day."
From late September 2020 to June 2021, he gave himself only 240 days to quickly review his high school knowledge. He made full use of the study time from 6:00 a.m. to 22:00 p.m. every morning during the school period to analyze his strong and weak subjects and conduct targeted training. Before re-reading, Wang Wei once made a high examination paper to test his level, because he felt that mathematics was "more difficult", he spent 80% of his preparation time on mathematical problem training.
"The mood of checking the results of the second college entrance examination was different from the first time, and at that moment I found confidence again." In the early morning of June 25, Wang Wei found his college entrance examination results, with a total score of 623 points. He shared screenshots of his results with his friends, relatives, teachers, and sent them to riders to share his joy. The next day, he returned to his post to continue delivering meals, and did not quit his job until mid-August when he was ready to report to the school.
"When I sit in the classroom, I don't think about myself 8 years ago. I'd rather devote my precious time to regret or reminiscing about the past than to devote my precious time to the present. After a busy day, Wang Wei, who had packed his bags, sat in the dormitory of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics to envision his future. He believes that he will never return to his former "abandoned" state. Earlier, he had written on Weibo: Scrap iron is reforged, and the prodigal son turns back and shakes again. (End)
Source: China News Network