Chapter 340 Life is a wilderness
“Time has passed in the end, and the scenery of the long street has changed.”
When Chen Yuanguang took the microphone from Principal Shu, the words from Eason’s "Four Seasons" flashed in his mind A line of lyrics.
In just a few years, his identity, status and resources at his disposal have become completely different.
Before, in such a public place, if he was said to be the most outstanding alumnus of Jiangcheng University, someone would definitely move Lei Jun out.
Even the last time he attended Luojia Lecture with Lei Jun at Jiang University, he was still lower than Lei Jun in terms of status.
But now, when someone else says this kind of thing, no one, whether it is a student at Jiang University or an audience watching the live broadcast, will find it inappropriate.
Even rice fans would not feel embarrassed to admit that Chen Yuanguang is better than Lei Jun.
This is the power of time, his own struggle, and the confidence that the future will bring him.
“I feel very emotional standing here. It has been seven years since I graduated from Jiangda University, but when I came back here again, I feel that Jiangda University is still so familiar.
Every plant and tree here, and even the hot dry noodles in the Lakeside Canteen are still the same as they were seven years ago, and they taste just as bad. "
The students from Taiwan's Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences living in the Lakeside Dormitory smiled knowingly. This is a joke that only students who have studied at Jiangnan University will understand.
"Yes, I None of my classmates contradicted me when I said that the hot dry noodles in Hubin Canteen are not delicious. It seems that everyone has the same taste.
I sneaked in to eat at ten o'clock this morning. At that time, there were some classmates in the cafeteria who looked like they had just woken up. I guess they were also very surprised. I was lucky enough to meet Chen Yuanguang and take a photo together. ”
There was another burst of laughter, and everyone was discussing who was so lucky.
Someone shouted in a classroom of Teaching Five: "Instructor, I am reporting that Zhang Chi did not go to the complex variable function class this morning and was still eating in the Lakeside Canteen at ten o'clock."
"That's right, Zhang Chi If this guy doesn’t go to class in the morning, the people will be angry if he doesn’t deal with it.”
“It’s too unfair if people who don’t go to class and take photos with the God of Light will not be punished.”
< br>There were only a few students who could take photos with Chen Yuanguang that day, because the venue was closed after Chen Yuanguang entered. Only those who were in front were lucky enough to take photos with Chen Yuanguang.
There are even fewer people who post the photos on WeChat Moments after taking a group photo.
Freshmen's class schedule is full in the morning, and they don't have the guts to skip class.
Besides, no one knew that Chen Yuanguang would go to the Lakeside Canteen this morning.
A rare lucky person becomes the object of envy, jealousy and hatred by everyone in the classroom.
Zhang Chi not only posted on WeChat Moments but also on Douyin. The number of likes on Douyin has exceeded 100,000.
Netizens joke that even if you put a group photo on your resume, when you are looking for a job after graduation, you can claim that you are an alumnus of Chen Yuanguang and take a selfie to prove it, and your pass rate will increase by several percentage points.
"So the things you are accustomed to now will become what you miss many years later.
When I was at Jiangda, like everyone else, I didn’t have much feeling. I felt that it was just something I had to experience in my life.
But after I graduated from Jiangsu University, I was pushed forward faster and faster. When I looked back, there was no one around, and I was standing in an empty wilderness. I don’t know which direction to go in.
You will cherish the time when you have goals and direction in the past.”
This is too pretentious and too much of a stream of consciousness. Listen. The students in the audience were all confused.
Chen Yuanguang walked forward, closer to the audience.
He didn’t see many complete faces. All he saw were mobile phone cameras pointed at him, probably all recording, just like when he was in college, his classmates used their mobile phones to record the teacher’s lectures. .
“Do you understand?”
“Guangshen is obviously saying that I have done too many things over the years, and no one around me can fully understand what I want to do. I am creating a new tomorrow for mankind.
I miss the days when I was an ordinary person in Jiang University. This is too pretentious. ”
"As expected of the God of Light, I used to rely on golden sentences to attract attention, but now I have begun to follow the stream of consciousness."
Some viewers in the audience began to discuss.
Different people have different styles of speaking. Chen Yuanguang rarely spoke in public in the past, but because of his outstanding performance in interview programs, he was considered a very talkative type.
This time is no exception.
“This is not to say that I have grown my company to a large scale over the years, accomplished things that many countries cannot do, won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and invented new materials that have changed human society. .
What I want to say is not that I have made so many contributions, received so many honors, and created so much wealth. I do not mean that I am moving too fast in this regard. ”
After finishing this paragraph, the audience suddenly became quiet. Everyone didn’t know what to say. Similar thoughts appeared in everyone’s mind: Guangshen has achieved such achievements seven years after graduation. What kind of summary can I write when I look back on it after seven years of graduation?
I feel sad when I think about it, and I don’t even have the intention to complain.
On the contrary, on the bullet screens of major live broadcast platforms, All kinds of bullshit are everywhere.
This is determined by status. The relationship between the students on site and Chen Yuanguang is that of alumni, and that of seniors and juniors.
After Chen Yuanguang won the Nobel Prize, he did not go to Yanda or Shuimu to give a lecture. He went all the way from Shenhai to Jiangcheng to give a lecture. It was not because Jiangda was his alma mater.
This kind of alumni relationship caused the audience to subconsciously feel that Chen Yuanguang was one of their own, and any achievement achieved by his own people sounded so out of reach.
The frustration is unimaginable.
“Can you win the Nobel Prize seven years after graduation?” A freshman in the School of Chemistry asked his classmates.
The classmate rolled his eyes and said, "You can't even multiply by ten."
"Honest?"
"Multiply by ten, I can't do it in seventy years.
If I can do it, then I will become a god."
"You are also the god of light, why can't you do it?"
The eyes rolled even more now, because this classmate also has light in his name, so he was named after he just joined the freshman group. The nickname of the God of Light.
To be precise, in the Huayuan of Jiangnan University, any student with Guang in his name must be nicknamed Guangshen.
At present, there have not been two cases of light gods in the same grade, but there have been cases where students from different grades in the Chemical Academy have light in their names.
However, this does not prevent their nicknames from being the God of Light. Even if they appear in a social situation at the same time, everyone will just add the big and small in front of them to distinguish them.
"This is a nickname, and my god of light is a title. How can this be the same?"
The generation of young people who were influenced by the Douluo Dalu comics would make similar jokes casually. The audience on the live broadcast platform had a huge sense of distance from Chen Yuanguang. Watching this kind of speech is no different psychologically than watching a character in a history book. They will only think that it is really awesome and that's it.
Chen Yuanguang didn’t know what the audience would say on stage. He spoke freely: “What I want to say is that the choices we face will be diverse.
In college, everyone The choices are nothing more than postgraduate entrance examination, postgraduate study, going abroad, and employment.
Even if we break it down further, we can divide it into which country to go abroad, which major to take for postgraduate entrance examination, and whether to take the civil service examination for employment. < br>
But you can always find a companion who has the same choice as you, there will be information sharing, and there will be emotional empathy in it
When everyone graduates and goes out into society, your options begin to become infinitely richer, and you will no longer find anyone traveling with you. Even two people sitting at adjacent workstations will have different backgrounds and experiences.
At this time, you will feel that you have walked into the wilderness, and only you and yourself can feel the same.
Look around and no one can walk with you.
So what I want to say is that psychological strength is the most important. It allows you to find the way forward for yourself no matter what time you are.
Principal Shu just mentioned that he and I have known each other since I was in college. We are very familiar with each other and I even went to his office for tea.
Yes, Principal Shu and I are indeed very familiar with each other, so Principal Shu also inquired about the content of my speech before coming.
He was afraid that I would come over and show off and brag about myself so hard that everyone would lose confidence.
When the time comes, I will tell you here, won’t it be easy to win the Nobel Prize before the age of thirty? The psychological damage caused to his students was too great. "
The team members of Jiangnan University looked at each other on the rostrum and smiled helplessly. Even if Chen Yuanguang said it in a deconstructive and self-deprecating way, it was enough to shock people.
That's it. is much better than "No, no, there are still people who can't publish in Nature when they are undergraduates, and can't win the Nobel Prize before they are 30 years old."
But the core is the same, nothing more than the difference between hp-100 and -10.
After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, there was a short burst of boos from the audience.
The obviously young freshmen are aware of this as well.
After Chen Yuanguang waited for everyone to calm down, he smiled: "Haha, my topic is not this, and it will not do me any good to attack everyone.
What I want to say is more about life. , I told Principal Shu, don’t worry, what I want to say is that life is long, cherish time.
Principal Shu was surprised at the time. How could these two topics be combined? Life is short, shouldn't we cherish time?
I said, wait until the lecture is finished.
Now I have clarified the logical relationship between them. Life is long, and you will find that the time spent with fellow travelers is short.
Student life is the last stage when you can have fellow travelers. In the future, when you enter society, even if you have a wife or a husband, they will not be able to completely empathize with you.
At this stage, no matter how you feel, there are classmates around you who have had similar experiences to you and can empathize with you.
Of course, I published a paper in Nature when I was a senior in college. At that time, Professor Levitt, the Nobel Prize winner in biology, insisted on making me an offer to go to Stanford to study for his PhD. He offered me a full scholarship, but I didn’t go. It was such an experience. It is estimated that no students in Jiangnan University have it now. "After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, he grinned again.
This time the boos in the audience were louder.
I promised not to hit people, so why did I start again.
"I didn't study for Levitt's Ph.D., I went to MIT to study for Professor Mongi's Ph.D., he later won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and I later also won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Influenced by me, he left MIT and went back to teach at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. We met at the Nobel Prize Ceremony at the end of last year, although the person he met was my robot.
At that time, there was also the president of Ecole Polytechnique de Paris. He said that if I was willing to go to Ecole Polytechnique, Professor Mongiu and I, the two of us could create a school of thought with a similar status in the field of mathematics to the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris.
I said, if I really come, then our school will only recruit doctors from Jiang University. Even if the French want to come, our school will have to go to Jiang University and rebuild it first.
The principal said, no problem. As long as you come, I will agree to any conditions. We can do a joint training with Jiang University. All freshmen in physics will first go to Jiang University to study for two years. Let me learn Chinese first. ”
France has a close relationship with Jiangcheng. Jiangcheng is the city where France invests the most in the University of Tokyo. French universities, whether it is the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris or the Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, have close academic exchanges with Jiangcheng University. A large number of Jiangcheng students go to France to study. .
"It's a pity that I didn't agree to him. If I had promised him, I would probably have to add the prefix "Ecole Polytechnique de Paris", Jiangnan University France Campus. ”
Now the audience was not booing, but applauding and cheering.
“What a pity.”
“The influence of the God of Light is so awesome.”
“Do you really believe it?”
“Nonsense, Of course I believe it, not to mention that the school only recruits Jiangsu students, even if Guangshen proposes to add that prefix and add himself to teach in France, they will agree."
The students were discussing, and the members of the Jiangnan University team on the stage were also discussing.
"Principal, have you heard of it?"
"No, I didn't go to the Nobel Prize award ceremony. But it wouldn't be surprising if there was."
"It's a pity. If there really is such a school and only recruits students from Jiangsu University, then Jiangsu University's physics will definitely surpass Yanda and rank first in the country."
"Yuan Guang, don't even think about it. , we still want to think about how to train the second Yuan Guang. If Yuan Guang goes to France, who forces him to leave, just think about the consequences.”
"Can talents of Yuanguang's level be cultivated? Every time I go to Yanjing for a meeting, Shuimu and the leaders of Yanjing University will show envy when they talk about Yuanguang. If it can be cultivated, they will train it early "Come out."
Chen Yuanguang waited for the discussion in the audience to quiet down and then said: "Of course I didn't agree to them.
It's not easy to go to France, but it's hard to come back alive." There was a sigh, and Chen Yuanguang continued.
“My life experience has reached this point, and no one around me can empathize with me.
Lin Jia? I just heard a classmate calling Lin Jia, Lin Jia. A is your senior sister, please be polite.
Of course she can't do it either. Although we have been in college until today, she is more involved in business management and business operations. Can I discuss scientific research-related work with her? Obviously not.
When I was in college, some of my classmates could keep up with me. Some of my classmates had also read most of the professional tomes I read outside of professional courses, and we could communicate with each other.
Today, no one around me can keep up with the literature I read and the questions I think about.
Similarly, you will encounter similar experiences sooner or later, so I hope you will cherish your time in college and do whatever you want to do.
In the process of college, no matter what you do, you will have fellow travelers, and you will have reference points and people to communicate with.
After this stage is passed, life is a wilderness and there is no chance to regret it. ”
(End of this chapter)