During my undergraduate course, I studied while working. After graduation, I went to the southwest mountainous area to teach and encourage the children in the mountainous area to study hard.
"If you are poor, you must be strong and never fall into the blue sky", which is the counterattack story of Tsinghua girl Jiang Xiaoxue.
Some netizens praised Jiang Xiaoxue: She is like a beam of light. Take her as an example and cheer together!
What did she go through?
Jiang Xiaoxue was born in Laixi City, Shandong Province. Her mother is deaf and dumb and has no job. Her father is older. In addition to farming, she occasionally helps people move bricks to build houses and has no stable income.
The children of the poor took over early. Since junior high school, her grades have been very stable, and she was admitted to a good local high school, but when she was a freshman, she chose to drop out.
She couldn't keep up with her study progress and her grades plummeted. Besides, going to high school is a big expense. Accommodation, tuition and living expenses have made their poor family worse. She wants to relieve the pressure at home.
After dropping out of school, she helped her parents do some farm work or odd jobs to earn money every day, but in that small workshop, she only earned 10 yuan a day.
Jiang Xiaoxue said: "Suddenly one day, I figured it out. I think I should at least have a high school diploma. Even if I can't go to college, I have to go to a college and have a skill to support myself. "
So, her father and brother accompanied her to the headmaster of the school, and the school finally agreed to give her another chance.
She has missed many classes because she has been out of school for half a year. You must work harder if you want to catch up.
Not long after, Jiang Xiaoxue, who likes liberal arts, "improved" a lot by cramming liberal arts subjects, and went to the teacher to ask questions whenever she was free.
The class teacher saw her tenacity. "Jiang Xiaoxue, I think you are essentially a better person. Believe it or not, if you study hard, you can be admitted to Tsinghua Peking University. You have this potential. " The teacher's encouragement rekindled her confidence.
According to her study progress and habits, Jiang Xiaoxue made a study plan suitable for her and strictly implemented it.
In the second year of high school, when all the holidays add up, Jiang Xiaoxue will go home for no more than 20 days, and this state will continue until the third year of high school.
After the college entrance examination, Jiang Xiaoxue scored 664 points. Finally, she was admitted to Tsinghua University Institute of Economics and Management, becoming the first liberal arts student in her hometown to be admitted to Tsinghua in the past ten years.
Looking back on this experience, Jiang Xiaoxue said frankly: "Without the head teacher, I could not have been admitted to Tsinghua, and my life could not have been as colorful as it is now. So I am a person who has been educated to change my destiny. "
Jiang Xiaoxue went out of Shandong for the first time to go to Beijing for university. When she first arrived in Tsinghua, she lamented: "The school is too big and has gone a long way."
But she soon realized that she was "out of place".
On the freshman dream show, she doesn't know what a "speech" is at all; In the team training camp, she has never heard of the league building game played by students; I don't know how to use the computer, and I don't know how to do PPT ... In terms of "mentality and vision", Jiang Xiaoxue feels that she can't keep up with everyone's rhythm.
This time, she didn't choose to escape as she did in high school, but chose to "actively adapt" to meet the difficulties.
The first attempt was to run for the squad leader, "although I lost the election"; The second time I tried to chat with you during military training, I found that "everyone in life is not so indifferent and very approachable".
Her interpersonal relationship has improved and her lessons have been hit. Papers and reading notes are all new things to her, so she can only search online and learn from other people's writing. The student can finish her homework in a day or two, and she needs to write for a long time. I just passed the mid-term professional course exam, and everyone else got full marks.
As a result, Jiang Xiaoxue, who didn't spend the night in the college entrance examination, began to "brush the night". Jiang Xiaoxue, who made great efforts, scored more than 70 points in the final exam. Sad and depressed, she cried a lot.
By the next semester, she began to accept herself slowly, "feeling that she was making excuses for herself", but she also accepted the fact that her efforts might not catch up with others.
There is one thing that makes Jiang Xiaoxue feel gratified: since she went to college, she has never asked for money from her family.
The scholarship of the school solved Jiang Xiaoxue's tuition and basic living expenses. In addition, through hard work, she has also won various scholarships such as national inspiration, excellent social practice, excellent volunteer work and excellent social work. The work-study positions provided by the school also made her gain a lot.
In addition, she has been working while studying since her freshman year. Riding a bike as a tutor in the cold wind in Beijing and helping the publishing house compile teaching AIDS ... I live a frugal life every day, but I can save some money and send it to my parents to subsidize my family.
Life on campus in Tsinghua is busy and colorful, and the school provides students with various possibilities. The "Hongyan Plan" aimed at developing students from poor families gave her the opportunity to go abroad to participate in public welfare projects.
In her junior year, Jiang Xiaoxue also went to Europe for half a year to exchange and study with the support of the college. During that time, she often sat alone in the car and thought for a long time: where is her footsteps, where is she going, what is the meaning of college life, and what is her value.
It is in this self-analysis that Jiang Xiaoxue gradually realized that it doesn't really matter that his grades are not particularly good. External criteria are not enough to define a person's success or not. One should learn to find the true value of oneself.
While enjoying the wider scenery on the platform of Tsinghua, Jiang Xiaoxue also admitted that her study and life are under great pressure. But it was in this process that she slowly learned to think independently and explore actively, and learned to find her own value in the crowd, instead of going with the flow.
Because she got a lot of kindness and help, she took part in many public welfare activities. Campus volunteers during the eleventh holiday take care of stray cats and dogs when they are busy, donate blood for free, speak English to migrant workers and teach. ...
These activities made her feel an unprecedented sense of value and accomplishment.
When she was about to graduate in her senior year and faced with many life choices such as employment and scientific research, Jiang Xiaoxue chose to join the graduate education group and went to the west to carry out a one-year public welfare teaching activity.
As a former "underachiever", Jiang Xiaoxue knows the infinite potential that education brings to everyone.
Jiang Xiaoxue said: "There may be many children, like me, who are slow to accept in high school and have poor academic performance, so they have the idea of giving up. Teaching can better help these children, so that they don't miss the opportunity of education, learn to believe in themselves, exert their potential and change their lives. "
Her sincerity touched the teachers of the Education Group, so that she successfully passed the selection and came to Nanjian Yi Autonomous County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, hoping to become a high school history teacher.
"You sum up the reasons for your failure in this exam first, make a list, and then we can solve it together." Jiang Xiaoxue said to the little girls around her: "With your strength, it is possible to improve by 20 to 30 points. Believe in yourself. "
The girl nodded, wiped her tears and walked out of the office. Jiang Xiaoxue breathed a sigh of relief.
She thought of herself in high school, collapsed because of poor grades, and didn't know the direction of her efforts. The children here are very similar to her.
"Because of poverty, I don't know what the ambition of Qingyun is; Because of poverty, Qingyun Zhiyuan; Because I am poor, I don't believe that I have the power to change my destiny, and I have lost my poor and strong fighting spirit. "
She hoped that her arrival would bring them hope. In class, she not only teaches students knowledge, but also helps them form good habits and tells them to be ambitious. After class, Jiang Xiaoxue likes to sit with the students, chat and eat snacks, and give them spiritual companionship under the sky surrounded by mountains.
Jiang Xiaoxue still keeps the habit of making schedules in high school. Every day, her schedule is full. Sometimes students will be surprised to see it. "Teachers work so hard and are so persistent, so we have to work harder."
When the children came to her with their report cards in high spirits and said, "I have never been so high in history" and "I can really learn well", she felt extremely gratified.
After teaching in Nanjian for several months, Jiang Xiaoxue wrote her own voice in a circle of friends:
"Compared with most people who have suffered, I am absolutely lucky. Fortunately, after dropping out of school, I can go back to the classroom. Fortunately, I can come to Tsinghua. With the all-round help of the school, my life has become different.
Although I have failed to repay the society, I am trying my best to help more people. I hope my babies can really believe that they still have the power to change their lives and fly out of this endless mountain. They can help the world in the future and live up to the gifts given by those warm people. Poverty is strong, not falling into the sky. "
Jiang Xiaoxue will return to Tsinghua University to pursue her master's degree after teaching in Nanjian for one year.
Do you have any plans to engage in the education industry in the future? She said that she wanted to give her life more possibilities.