I didn't know it until Oxford.
Everyone knows how great Oxford is, the birth of 26 prime ministers, 250 world-class leaders, and 47 Nobel laureates ... But the pinching irritate D between it and the competitor, Cambridge, made me feel small.
The University of Oxford is old, with 800 years of history, yet so modern, it has the world's youngest business school and the most perfect Silicon Valley entrepreneurial park in the UK. It was arrogant, super arrogant, and flatly refused to enroll Blair's son, but when it begged Microsoft for $10 million to sponsor it, the headmaster Chris Patten smiled in a flattering smile ...
Before going to Oxford, I am very confident: I have taught 200,000 of students, my vocabulary has 50,000 of the huge, I took a CPA, I have established their own company, I witnessed the "new East" from the Zhongguancun two small that humble corner, the rapid development to today has 7. 800 million turnover of super training predators. When I got to Oxford, I gradually felt inferior. Although I graduated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, although I have been involved in Mr. Yuan Longping's rice cloning, but when I randomly read the class's resume, I found no way to mention the rice thing: Students from the United States is not Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the worst is Berkeley.
In class, when the graceful professor voluminous said 10 minutes, I unexpectedly did not know what he said, but unfortunately by his point to answer questions, had to bite the bullet. But when it comes to the second sentence, an American classmate rhetorical me with an incredibly fast speed, and at that moment, I am proud of my English is very hurt. I think I have participated in the capital operation of the new east, introduced 200 million investment in the new Orient, what does not work? But in the course of the panel discussion, when we simulated the acquisition of the biggest super waterworks in the UK, I didn't use Excel, and they talked about terminology, and I only nodded.
Every day of study in Oxford is like a taut clockwork, such as discussing a party with a classmate
The case to eat a hamburger in the evening to hunger, then to the library, from six to sit 11 o'clock, then rode my mountain bike back to the dorm, that is a 30 minutes away, back still have three paper to do, I am sure to write to two o'clock in the morning to two and a half. I insisted for two months, two months later finally, I fell ill for the first time. Before I was in China, especially in school, my nickname is "Health", I have not had a cold for five or six years, now I unexpectedly high fever to 39 ℃. I slept all day and night, and the next day, I found that I was actually tired. Not only did I get tired, 140 people in the whole class were almost exhausted once.
I used to think I was versatile, I would blow Fife, play the guitar, I used to be the new Oriental football team's super striker. In Oxford, my confidence was hurt once again, with the Sydney Olympic champion in the class of our tiny 140-person class, with 13 Oxford Varsity members, ice hockey, baseball, wrestling, soccer, and even a rowing team on the Thames with Cambridge. I am helpless, our school team does not take me, because my striker base in Oxford is not recognized, my self-confidence has been removed.
Me and a little from Canada. Fella very well, because we can speak Chinese, he studied three major, the last major is Chinese philosophy, learning "Sun Tzu". The little guy said, "When I graduated from Yale Law School, I didn't think there was any activity in the world I couldn't get into, there was no course I couldn't finish, but there was one exception: I went to Oxford." ”
Finally, we finally got out and graduated, but I believe that what I get in Oxford is not just a diploma.
The feeling that I have felt for more than a year will benefit me for life.
I didn't know it until Oxford.