The “returnees look down on the domestic university, 211 look down on the two or three, undergraduate graduates look down on the college degree ……” educational contempt chain every other day on the The social media platform topic list. But for some people who lost their first battle in the college entrance examination For some people who lost the first battle of the college entrance exam, the “bad undergraduate background The stigma of “bad undergraduate background” will not disappear because of the examination.
From the age of 21 to 25, graduation, pending employment, bare resignation, examinations interspersed, constituting a period of life experience of Ye Zi’s initial entry into society.
After two failed examinations and two years as a website editor, Ye Zizi made up her mind to quit her job. She did not tell her family for fear of being scolded, and with the remaining 10,000 yuan in her card, she rented a teacher’s apartment and started the last exam of her life.
For the second year candidates like Ye Zizi, through the second or even third war, for their own uncertain future, seems to be both realistic and ideal helpless move. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re looking for.
After the preliminary exams, rested 1 day, Ye Zi hurried back to Jinan to find a job. The result is that you have to find a place for yourself, save some money, either to go to Beijing for the retest, or save yourself a dowry. . “
Some data show that in 2019, in the 3.41 million people in the army of the examination, the second degree and below candidates accounted for 52.5%. Therefore, there is also “second and third base reduced to the examination base ” a saying. In a way, for those who failed in the college entrance examination, the examination is a concentrated outbreak of resignation and stubbornness.
For those who harbor the dream of a prestigious school and fail to dream, “stubborn people For the “persistent people” who have dreams of going to a good school and failing to live their dreams, the exam is their last shot at convincing themselves to accept reality. For those who are trapped in the “head-to-head” job market because of their poor undergraduate background For those who are trapped in the “glimmering job market” because of their poor undergraduate background, studying is the only way for them to break away from the status quo.
“The work of that time, the whole person is very pessimistic, feel that their life is so. “Bachelor’s degree, Fang Lin looking for work is not smooth, only Hainan Changjiang nuclear power plant wants him. “My father graduated from Wu University that year, my parents have not been very satisfied with me, I feel that I have little value. “Under the gambling, Fang Lin only came to Changjiang Nuclear Power Station.
He took a two- to three-hour bus ride from Haikou Airport to Changjiang Li Autonomous County, then a half-hour minibus ride to the nuclear power plant’s temporary living quarters, dotted with barren farmland along the way. Fang Lin is mainly responsible for radiation protection, and his daily work is based on inspection.
“We have to wear dose detectors, and when radiation is detected, the instrument will emit a ‘drip’ sound, the frequency of the sound fast or slow corresponds to the amount of dose. “Under normal circumstances, the inspectors hear the sound of drops will quickly pass, but Fang Lin will not, he sometimes slowly walk past. “I don’t know why, in that drip environment, I just feel like I existed. “
From the assistant engineer to start, and then to engineer, senior engineer, this is the promotion path of Fang Lin this work, the same dormitory a colleague did 6 years, to engineer. But Fang Lin is not willing. When 40 days left from the exam, Fang Lin resolutely resigned to prepare for the exam. The moment of resignation, he was “very calm, not sad and not happy “.
Stigma: origin and opportunity
“We do not have high-quality lectures, no excellent teaching equipment, lack of famous teachers, lack of funds, lack of direction …… what we have is only the upward heart and clumsy efforts. “
A few years ago, Huai Zuo’s friend was studying in a second-grade college. On the eve of graduation, the friend went to attend the 211 school’s school recruiting, interviewing a Fortune 500 company. The interviewer asked: “How did you run here to interview? We do not accept students from second-tier universities. “
After listening to the job search experience of many second-year students, Huai Zuo wrote the article “Sorry, our company does not want students from two or three universities”. In the article, he wrote: “This is how the gap is widened. Students from two or three schools, the lack of intelligence and effort, the real lack, is the opportunity. Less opportunities, leading to narrow vision; narrow vision, leading to inability to let go; in the end, more people choose to settle and stability. “
The other end of the settlement is to struggle and make up for it. Fang Lin majored in nuclear engineering and technology, and in addition to professional courses, he also studied a second degree in accounting and Korean. He has six full days of classes scheduled seven days a week. Xia Meng majored in financial management for her undergraduate degree, and to make up for the bad school, she took a number of finance-related certificates.
“I have met the total number of such (undergraduate origin is not good enough) job seekers but a hundred, are quite anxious, desperate to make up for it. “Yin Guangliang has been an HR for 8 years, in his impression, this type of job seekers tend to take an IELTS 7 or more, and CFA, CPA, judicial exams, or take the relationship to go to a large enterprise internship. “Because once lost, so doubly cherish it. “
Among the many ways to make up for undergraduate origins, graduate school is one of the most frequently chosen. In Fang Lin’s mind, on the study, means that they are just in the college entrance exams misplayed, by no means less skilled than others. But he gradually discovered that what lies between a second-year student and a famous school is not simply a chance to study, but also a gradually tightening upward path and a certain sensitivity deep inside. The Ministry of Education data shows that the number of applicants for the national master’s degree in 2021 reached 3.77 million, an increase of 360,000 over the previous year. At the same time, many colleges and universities are beginning to cross the red line of “the number of exempted students must not exceed 50% of the total number of students enrolled in master’s degree programs The red line.
The “Yezi” with bad undergraduate background “They are squeezed into the huge army of examinations year by year, or to themselves to leave a way out, or not. But the examination on the study, everything will be as it should be?
Naked resignation: reluctance and stubbornness
The night of the results, Ye Zizi home from work, just cooked himself a bowl of noodles, “carrying the bowl of noodles hands are shaking”.
This is the third time in five years that she has studied for the exam.
She wanted to go to the big city to see, but with the previous education and experience, it was almost impossible. After two failed exams and two years as a website editor, Ye Zi made up her mind to quit her job and rented a room near the Shandong Normal University to prepare for the exam, carrying the remaining 10,000 yuan in her card.
“This is the last chance, if still failed, honestly go to work, find a date, get married. “The last attempt, Ye Zi did not tell her family, she was afraid of being counted. As early as five years ago, she had an argument with her parents over the exam. Her parents felt that it was not worthwhile for her to give up the medical profession she had studied for four years, while she insisted on enrolling in the media graduate program she liked.
During the six months of the Third World War, Ye Zi found a study place in the old campus of Shan Shi and studied from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., falling victim to cervical spondylosis. In order to save money, the 6 yuan hand-rolled noodles from the canteen, the 4 yuan rolls from the stall in front of the school, and the 6 yuan roasted eggplant covered rice from the Shanshidong Road together constituted the unchanging The “old three”.
In addition to the push-out restriction, the advantageous majors of some famous schools have also directly closed the door for the second-year candidates. 2019, a 985 university in Beijing’s Chinese studies (philosophy and religion), geography (landscape design science), particle powerlessness and atomic nuclear physics, master of insurance, statistics and higher education only accept push-out students. In the same year, some majors of a university in Shanghai received more than 90% of pushovers.
The “returnees look down on the domestic university students, 211 look down on the two or three college students, the undergraduate graduates look down on the college degree ……” educational contempt chain every other day on the The social media platform topic list. But for some people who lost their first battle in the college entrance examination For some people who lost the first battle of the college entrance exam, the “bad undergraduate background The stigma of “bad undergraduate background” will not disappear because of the exams to land.
For the third time, Ye Zi finally succeeded in landing a special master’s degree in journalism and communication. When she had to choose a tutor at the beginning of her admission, her first choice was a professor with many topics and experience. Apparently, everyone had similar ideas and the professor became popular. The counter-selection link, the popular professor chose an undergraduate 211 student of this major and two students who had good grades in the exam.
After 40 days of frantic study, Fang Lin got into the desired institution. “I actually waited until I got to graduate school before I almost officially entered the lab. “For a period of time at the beginning of the school, Fang Lin was more sensitive and cared about other people’s attitudes toward him during academic discussions and was afraid to take the initiative to put forward ideas, “always worried if there was something common sense I didn’t know and was laughed at “. He also once mocked himself as “Mr. Dong Guo “, afraid of “to be found out differently “.
The future: starting and getting over the hump
In November this year, a variety show “Heartwarming Offer 2” brought the 29-year-old “older ” intern Ding Hui into the viewers’ attention. With a second degree, having worked in sales, and quitting his job barely to cross the exam, when Ding Hui stood on the same track with other interns from prestigious schools and younger, the national scholarship during his graduate studies and multiple relevant internship experiences still could not modify his “not elite enough ” in his past.
“It’s too easy for us to bring our selves into Ding Hui, thinking that he is the one who is still struggling to move forward with high pressure in the face of the cruel society of our own selves. When he wins, we win. He lost, we also lost. A netizen once wrote this on Weibo. During the broadcast of the program, the number of topics related to Ding Hui read several times broke a billion.
“The card first degree are companies that are not bad money. Because it is not bad, the salary is far above the industry median, the top resumes are gathered, the number of positions is small, this time you can ‘just make ‘. “In Yin Guangliang’s opinion, regardless of this type of “have the right to speak “how the company screens resumes, the last ones left are the best people.
Yin Guangliang believes that for the vast majority of recruiting companies, education + added value, is a common criterion for measuring job seekers. The added value includes patents, SCI papers, more outstanding entrepreneurial experience, internship experience in similar famous enterprises, etc. He also confessed that although the bad undergraduate background of job seekers will be slightly worse than the always excellent competitors, but the undergraduate degree will not become a permanent hurdle to overcome.
Two years ago, the then 28-year-old Ye Zizi graduate school. Autumn recruitment plus spring recruitment season, she put out a total of more than 30 resumes, there are six positions into the interview stage, and finally got four offers, her own preference for Internet management training, Internet operations, content planning-related positions all lost.
At her discretion, Ye Zi chose a job of Internet content audit. Although she was not particularly satisfied with the job content and salary, it was indeed the best choice for her at the moment. After six months of work, Ye Zi seized the opportunity to switch to her favorite operations job. 1 year later, she jumped ship to a better Internet platform.
“After graduation, we may still not be able to compete with our undergraduate 211 and 985 rivals, but at least it’s a lot better than our original undergraduate The second degree is much stronger, and there are more opportunities. “For Ye Zi and other people entering the IT, operations and other industries, undergraduate origin can be diluted by later efforts. But for people like Fang Lin, who is determined to engage in scientific research, the undergraduate hurdle may not be passed in a short time.
After graduating from graduate school, Fang Lin continued his doctoral studies, and he plans to teach at a university after graduation. He plans to teach at a university after his PhD. “The second degree definitely has a big impact on employment afterwards, and the more you go to the back, the more restrictive it is, unless you make a very impressive The more you go back, the more restrictive it is, unless you make great achievements during your PhD. In the school where Fang Lin is currently studying for his PhD, candidates with undergraduate degrees from Tsinghua and foreign study/research experience can be directly appointed as Associate Professor.
Fang plans to start as an assistant researcher and work his way up if he can find a university willing to hire him. “The entrance exam is a watershed moment, when not as good as others do, it will take a long time to make up for it. “
Zhu Kun is 28 years old, majoring in English language and literature in the third year of research, if he can successfully enter the PhD, he is also ready to take the road of research. About the future, he is more “Buddha “, no specific planning and no anxiety. “Can you get on the blog, when to graduate after the exam, how many articles can be issued before graduation are unknown, there is no need to make plans now “.
In Zhu Kun’s opinion, the “first degree supremacy theory” is not wrong, but a way to sieve people, it is undeniable that good schools do have their advantages, but do not deny the value of those who continue to improve themselves, “the big deal is not to choose those jobs that do not card undergraduate degree.
(At the request of the interviewee, Ye Zizi, Fang Lin, Xia Meng and Zhu Kun are pseudonyms in the text)
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