High school inspirational story: secondary school students conquer Wharton Business School

High school inspirational story: secondary school students conquer Wharton Business School

It is said that in the 1990s, Wharton ranked first in the United States for eight consecutive years. It only recruits 20 students each year in China. Can be accepted by Wharton, I think this kind of success is too far from ordinary Chinese.
The secondary school student named Qiao Huicun, a young man from Qiqihar in Northeast China. Qiao Huicun's general experience is: 15 years old admitted to Liaoning Light Industry School, graduated from technical secondary school, went to Qiqihar Mingyue Beer Group as a technician; 24 years old admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology to study economics; 26 years old among thousands of job seekers by CITIC headquarters Recruitment; 29-year-old resigns as a boss, founded a consulting company; 32-year-old, after two years of examinations and applications, was admitted to the Wharton MBA, and now studying in the United States. "My biggest advantage is my persistence." I saw Qiao Huicun who just returned home. In the impression, he said this to me: "My biggest advantage is my persistence: to do one thing, we must do it in the end, we must succeed! I believe this sentence: nothing is impossible! If we can have such a concept, success is actually not far away from us." Yes, this feature appeared as early as the secondary school, the phenomenon is running. Qiao Huicun insisted on running every day, and he ran for 4 years in the morning. He never stopped. He always got up two hours earlier than the same room. "I can't get up at the beginning. We have 8 people in the bedroom. We don't have breakfast in the morning. We climbed up at 8 o'clock and went straight to class. I want to change this habit myself. I wake up at 6 o'clock every morning. I can't get up the first day. Oh, everyone in the house is asleep, cold in the northeastern winter, minus twenty degrees, one is cold and fat, I insist on getting up early for 4 days, well, no longer feel uncomfortable. "There is a theory that people use It took me three weeks to change a habit. I only spent four days. For example, if I am practicing words, my mother said that my words are not well written. I will start to practice a word in the future. I will start practicing. Every day when I am sweeping the classroom, I practice half an hour in a dusty calligraphy. . Later, running, practicing words, I don't feel much pain, but I can find a lot of fun. Joe Hughes’s eagerness and self-discipline makes people feel almost cruel. Some adults can’t do it. He did it for a teenage child. Like practicing a harmonica, he straightened his lips and ruined. In the 4 years of secondary school, I have never seen TV or read novels. "What kind of people are needed in this society? I will shape myself according to this standard. This process can be painful and boring, but I can bear it. Because every step of success, I will be encouraged and have a sense of accomplishment. When I was 16 years old, he wrote a note and summed up the reasons why 10 must learn English. The principals of their secondary schools often said that knowing technology, being able to manage, and being a foreign language are the hallmarks of compound talents. "I think I have to be a compound talent, I have to learn English well. I have been in English for 11 years. I have been in the second year of the secondary school until graduation. Every night I stand in the hallway and listen to the American English lecture of Dalian Foreign Languages ​​Institute with a small radio. After 11 o'clock, I will go to sleep again. In English class, every time everyone can't answer the question, the teacher will ask me to answer. He said that I am the 'English trump card' in the class. "My motivation and perseverance come from me. Dreams----success. I have a desire for success, and it is very strong. The stronger I want, the more I want to achieve it. English brought him new opportunities. After graduation, Qiao Huicun went to the CITIC headquarters where he most wanted to go. "All people don't believe that experiences like me will be accepted by CITIC. They still don't believe that I have not left the back door." In CITIC, I don't know a person. I only handed in a resume. It is said that 4,500 resumes were thrown at CITIC, and only 9 people were admitted. "I am also curious as to why I was selected. Later I heard that it was because of my special experience, graduated from technical secondary school, worked in the factory for so many years, and the Asian Winter Games wrote me a two-page recommendation letter..."19 At the age of two, Qiao Huicun’s peers just went to college, and he has returned to Qiqihar to work at the brewery. In the factory for 5 years, he gave him a lot of space, including various studies. “The learning environment and atmosphere of the factory are very poor. Everyone only likes to drink and gamble. I said to them; first, I won’t play cards, and second, I won’t drink, just take the door and give the door to everyone. I applied for such a look. The role of the door, sitting at the door to see my "new concept English." With these five years, I have read one to four volumes honestly five times."
On one occasion, Qiao Huicun went to Beijing to participate in an international beer seminar. At the meeting, only one person could talk to foreign guests in English, so he was noticed and got all the speeches. He used half a year to translate the tens of thousands of words of speeches and professional papers and sent them to Qi Zhidao, then president of the China Beer Association.
"The old gentleman actually sent me a letter back that day, and all five translations were published. This is very sensational in our beer group, because no one has ever published an article in the national first-level beer magazine."
In Qiao Huicun's view, the factory's mechanism is not to evaluate and select people according to their ability. Therefore, they decided to read two years of graduate students, enrich themselves, and then make new decisions.
The postgraduate examination is a great challenge for him who graduated from a secondary school. When the brewery opened the test certificate, others did not believe that he was a student of Hui Huicun, and he was admitted to the economics graduate student of Harbin Institute of Technology.
Before the postgraduate entrance examination, he went to see the tutor one by one, and he did not want it. The reason was that he did not enroll the secondary school student, fearing that he could not keep up even if he was admitted. However, when the exam, Qiao Huicun ranked first in English, and the retest was also the first. 33 people applied for the exam and finally admitted 3 people.
His mentor didn't want it at first, but later said: "I don't care if he only has a secondary school education. It is better to see him in English."
"It seems that working for five years under such a large state-owned enterprise and such a mechanized large-scale production management model is extremely valuable to me and will be of great help to my later study and development. For example, when I was studying, my Many students, including current foreign students, do not have such work and management experience. I can tell things that they don't even know.
The crisis in "actual war" allowed Qiao Huicun to choose to study abroad.
"Learning graduate students is the biggest turning point in my life. At that time, I had the feeling of 'turning positive'. I finally got into regular and famous universities. Harbin Institute of Technology is the best school in Heilongjiang. It is a hall for me. Half a year before enrollment, I I am crazy to learn, English is passed early, and I am exempt from repair in the second half of the year. This makes my graduate life rich and colorful, otherwise I will be trapped in my studies.
The 3rd Asian Winter Games was held in Harbin in 1996 and began preparations at the end of 1994. The instructor recommended the five graduate students he brought to the Asian Winter Games. After the interview, Qiao Huicun and another classmate stayed.
Qiao Huicun believes that his "real combat training" at the Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee is more effective than the MBA case teaching, especially the negotiation.
"When the organizing committee was just established, we didn't have any communication equipment. The leader asked me to go out and talk about a few pagers. I went to the biggest paging station in Harbin. This is the first project I talked about.
“People asked me to sponsor the pager. What good can we do? I said that I can advertise for you and open a 'Asian Winter Hotline Paging' line. As a result, I returned to 5 pagers at a time.
"Because I didn't have enough points, I went again the next day. I want to sign it for the 'Asian Winter Games designated paging station'. The boss said that you have to promise me a condition, I will sign it. He said that after you graduate, I will work here. I will give you a company to be a manager. I said that I am only 25 years old. He said it doesn't matter. I said yes, he signed it. I took a few pagers and went back, and I was praised by the leader. The next day, I was The propaganda ceremony planned by this paging station sensationalized the city."
When Qiao Huicun signed the sponsorship contract for “Korean Rice” as the “Asian Rice Designation Rice” within 10 minutes, he was immediately appointed as the director of the Organizing Committee Negotiation Department by the investment boss. Later, they successively signed a series of sponsorship contracts for instant noodles, mineral water, and Coca-Cola for the Asian Winter Games.
"From 1994 to the end of 1995, throughout the year, our ministry has negotiated a total of 15 million yuan. The work of the Asian Winter Games has allowed me to enter the commercial field in all directions. At the same time as the sponsorship, I want to Helping the company plan how it can make money with the Asian Winter Games. In the end, I can plan a proposal for customer satisfaction within 30 minutes. Many of the ideas I worked on in the consulting industry were established at that time."
"I just like to do challenging work. CITIC is the best company I have ever worked for. What I learned in CITIC is something I have never forgotten in my life. But in the third year of CITIC, I want to be more Free to use my energy, and it gives me a gap between what I want and what I want, I decided to leave."
In 1999, Qiao Huicun registered his consulting company "Jingcheng Xinda". He said that the biggest feeling of the company for the past three years is particularly happy. "We negotiated with customers, helped the company to come up with ideas, and created a lot of value. I can see that I have made a lot of money for others. Of course, I have made money myself. Otherwise, I will not be able to support the application for studying abroad for two consecutive years. Including various exam fees. Because I have a poor foundation, I have tested more times. I only took 6 times for GMAT, 3 times for IELTS, and 10 times for TOEFL.
“I decided to study abroad. When my company was at its peak, we just took the next list of exhibition center consulting projects. This list is to compete with the world-renowned M International Consulting Company and a state-owned company with the background of the Ministry of Finance. I got it later. This successful challenge brought me a sense of accomplishment and a sense of crisis.
"It is said that M company spent two years on this list. I didn't want to compete with it at all. I am just a small company. It is an international-stream consulting group. It only recruits graduates from such famous schools as Tsinghua University and Peking University. Students, or graduates from graduate schools in the United States and Europe."
He wanted to work with M company and directly called the phone to the project manager's office, but was rejected. People said: "We never cooperate with small consulting companies."
"Then let's meet and talk, can you?" he asked again.
"We don't have time." The phone was hung up.
"I have this mentality: When others despise me, laugh at me, yell at me, crowd me out, I only have one way to respond: I have to do better! After I put down the phone, I silently thought, I must succeed! I I don’t have any resentment. Since I refuse to cooperate with me, I will compete with you. Don’t look at me, but I have my advantage.”
While competing for business and self-esteem, Qiao Huicun also recognized the way: "I know that my existing knowledge is not enough. With my strength and education, it is very difficult to compete with internationally renowned companies. Maybe I will win occasionally. But in the end, it is still not competitive. And my company is difficult to grow bigger and hard to surpass. I want to study abroad, I have to charge."
In July 2002, Qiao Huicun rushed to the United States in his dreams.
"The United States is not as good as I thought, but Wharton is better than I thought. From the outside, its new building, the facilities are the most advanced in the United States and the world; from the inside, the students I met, Not only is it clever, but also very good. After reading it for half a year, I explained many of my previous confusions and corrected many of my mistakes. The financial knowledge I have learned here is something I have never heard before. In Wharton, There are dozens of people from all over the world, and here are the world's cultures... I have come to Wharton, I think I am right!"