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September 10, 2008

Most of us, borned in 1980s in China, have witnessed a lot changes of China. Most changes were or are positive, but changes of higher education, it is so bad. I have been in home for more than 4 monthes, loneness and insomnia are my best friend. They always accompany me. Why? What I have learned were too academic, on other words, it was useless in companies because no companies want to employ me to publish papers for them. So, I had nothing to do intead of staying home.

Why this essay's title is "Most of us"? Because most of us borned in 1980s have so many same worries and stories. We had experienced the rigescent primary education in elementary school. Teachers did not teach how to learn but ordered us to learn. Boring! Writing the same things more than 10 times, read an article 5 times and working out one questions 10 times. No creation! Just repeated the same things. That was the order, we must obeyed without questions. Most of us had a sweety dream which was going to the university during childhood. In the university which was heaven in our dream meaned no worries and free all day. But when we grew up and went to the university, disappointment appeared in our hearts. Chinese universities are so bad, many students couldn't learn anything useful. Most of the couses are out of date and most teachers don't know how to teach. They only know how to read, reading the teaching materials in the classes. Postgraduates are become the slaves of their supervisors or porisoners in the universities. Most of the papers plagiarized from others'. No hope, no future! I don't know which bitch enacted "Expanding Admission Scale of Institutions". This policy brought no good but harm to Chinese higher education.

So, I decide to try going aboard to get a PhD. I do not want to study in China. It is useless and cheesy!

 

09:56 AM Oct 28 2008

Mariangela Giuliane
Brazil

wow!

 

i think your words express all that people who was born in the 80's want to say but didn't!

and i have the feeling that you'll reach your goals!

 

hope to read more from you!

 

congratulations! 

September 10, 2008

I just completed my IELTS test. I do not know whether the result is good or not. Maybe the band score will not be acceptable, whatever! Why did I spend 1450 RMB on it? The only reason is that I want to go aboard to accept good higher education. I want to pursue PhD in UK or other developed countries. That is my dream which has embedded deeply into my heart. Why don't I have PhD in China? The reason is that Chinese higher education is not good after "Expanding Admission Scale of Institutions". It can not provide students useful knowledge. In other words, what the students have learned during 4 years undergraduate, evin 2.5 or 2 years postgraduate is not helpful for them to hunt for a job or their academic careers. Recent years, more and more HRs of different companies in China complian that it is hard for them to employ good people because most undergraduates can do nothing. They do not know the latest technologies. On the contrary, they only know a few theories in books which are proposed over 30 years. For professors in the universities, I do not know I should call them academicians because they have nothing to do for the academic and all they concern is how to make money and how to get power. Most supervisors can not serve projects to their postgraduates and doctors.

Therefore, I want to escape from the desert of education and I eager to find a field of academic.

September 9, 2008

I am old now, even if I am only 26. Ten years ago, I was 16. In that time, I was full of dreams, full of energy and full of happiness, even though there was so heavy studying task. The life was simple but rich and colorful. I had so many friends and we could talk together any time. But now, although life is simple too, it is no longer colorful. The adults' world is so hard and fictitious. I don't like my life now because I am not so sophisticated that I could adapt the world. Pressure is too heavy to carry on. And the dream is still far away. Most important, I do not own enough energy and strong will to reach the destination I want to be. I am old, just like a man whose body and mind are empty.
I hope this essay can encourage every one likes me who are struggling in the world!
                                       Youth
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

10:32 AM Dec 08 2008

darthblader
United States

You're right, age is a state of mind more than anything else, although you can't ignore the sore joints from sports injuries in your youth (in my case, skating), wrinkles, etc.

  The guy who said in five years you'll miss being 26 is right.  I'm 31, and I've wasted so much time, and accomplished so little.   I really don't look much older, in fact from photographs you can't even tell.  I don't get carded as much as I used to when buying alcohol, lol. 

   I can tell you that if you're unhappy with your life, it does become more difficult as the years roll past to remain optimistic about how your life will be "someday" when you've done virtually nothing to change it.

   Meanwhile the clock continues ticking.  Father time won't wait for you to get on with your life  I can tell you that first hand, as I've been in a rut for about 10yrs now.  I should take my own advice.  I think I'll start tomorrow, lol...

08:09 PM Sep 09 2008

hwyseung

hwyseung
Canada

You know.. five years from now, You're going to miss when you were 26. And you're going to think about the things that you could have done. I'm not going to say that you should think younger or be young. But it seems like you need to make a decision whether to live like you used to or give it a drastic change. I don't believe a person can be changed but he can shift the course of life he's taking. 

... I don't know why I'm writing this :( I'm usually not this serious about things. I'm not trying to give you an advice or anything. Take it as an opinion.