Classic inspirational story: the dream is not the sun

Classic inspirational story: the dream is not the sun

Every time I think about the embarrassing story, I always feel the happiness that I can't stop. I haven't had a face-to-face communication girl, and it is one of the most successful cases I have ever studied. Every time she communicates with her through MSN and e-mail, I always think of the sound of her life on the phone about four years ago. It is like a world.
It was in the fall of 2002. I received an email with the theme "help! help!". At first I thought it was a spam, and I put it in the junk folder. I thought it was very curious, but it was a good one. The acquaintance of the little girl’s letter from the distant British Isles, looking at the contents of the letter, I seem to think that she seems to be imprisoned in a seemingly gloomy castle, can imagine her ashamed and overwhelmed Look like.
I came from a coastal town in the south. Because my parents were busy with their own business, she often lived alone when she was very young. The care of her parents did not affect the girl who was as sunny as the sun on the beach. She was independent. strong. When I graduated from high school, my parents took out a considerable fee to send her to study in the UK. So she had a special liking for Oxford. She gave up the college entrance examination and applied for a private university preparatory school in the south of England through an intermediary company. Intermediaries’ advertisements said that the preparatory courses they introduced had cooperation agreements with many prestigious schools, and as long as the results were good enough, they were guaranteed to be able to read any university in the UK. At the age of 18, she took a huge suitcase and sat on the plane to the UK. She wrote in the email:
"At the time, I just thought about it. I can go to the UK and go to Oxford!"
However, the reality has given her a cold water. The preparatory school she attended, although the service conditions such as pick-up and accommodation, are indeed as publicized and guaranteed, but the biggest problem is that most of the preparatory courses are in China. People or Taiwanese, the rest are also international students from all over the world, not speaking the language of each country, the English is also strange. Because there are several lower-ranking universities that guarantee undergraduate admissions, most of them are unwilling to learn, and many students use the money at home to mix in the bar. A classmate told her that there is an undergraduate affair with the family anyway, and there is no such thing as learning.
"But those schools are very low-ranking universities in the UK. Although they are regular universities, I spent so much money and strength to come to the UK because I want to go to Oxford. My parents are still waiting for me at home. Going to the good news of a famous school... It’s better to go home now, and then re-take the college entrance exam... I shouldn’t go back...”
On the phone, she said a soft Mandarin with a southern accent, with a crying, people can't bear it. I was so busy to comfort her, while "blessing" the clothed high-pitched trap in the heart, and packing the foreign students like the goods to the intermediary agencies of the country.
In China's study abroad market, especially in many cities in the South, it is particularly common to send high school children out to attend A-level courses or preparatory courses through the introduction of certain intermediaries. We call this the “A stream” of the South. However, the top universities in the UK that attract the most Chinese students, Oxford and Cambridge, generally only accept excellent A-level graduates from the UK and basically do not accept students from the preparatory school. Moreover, the entry difficulty of some top high schools in the UK is just as difficult as some of China's top secondary schools are more difficult than Tsinghua University. It even exceeds the difficulty of admission to Oxford and Cambridge. Therefore, Chinese students are rarely recruited by these secondary schools. Many people can only go to general or relatively good A-level courses.
As for the majority of Chinese students who have fallen to the Foundation, they have actually missed Oxford and Cambridge.
After these children arrived in the UK, some people were dragged down in the language school for a year or two because of the poor English foundation. A little better, they barely applied for a very general university to deal with the matter. Parents who don’t know about foreign situations think that their children are going to college in the UK. They just listen to the propaganda of some study agents. They feel that sending their children to study infinite scenery, they will spend a lot of money and don’t know their children. What happened is far more than the pressure of study and life.
However, she is obviously a clever girl. She has a good English foundation. Before she went abroad, she went to Beijing New Oriental alone. She studied IELTS and listening enhancement for four months.
At that time, I said to you, don't hold the same mentality as your classmates. You must stick to your dreams, persist in your efforts, and learn to give up. Although the chances of a prestigious school accepting a pre-university school are small, it is not entirely hopeless, and you must not give up on yourself. If you give up, it is a little hope.
The cockroach on the other side of the phone seemed to calm down, sobbing and said: "Then you said, do I still have the opportunity to read Oxford?"
I thought for a moment and made a promise that I really want to come to really is not practical: "Yes! As long as you work hard, finally use the results to convince Oxford professors!"
But at the time, I couldn't use any fierce language to hit this already heartbroken girl. How could the town girl who first arrived in the UK think that the outside world is so complicated and fraudulent. The only thing that can remind her is hard work. God is destined to look after hardworking people.
Time has passed quickly, and I have been the best student in the school, and I have scored a 7-point IELTS score. When I received her e-mail, I was very happy with her. I told her that with her current achievements, she was able to attend Oxford, the dream school she dreamed of. Based on her experience, we helped her to make a beautiful application, and finally locked up several TOP10 schools to apply.
Soon after, I received a letter of acceptance from a famous TOP5 university, which caused quite a stir in the preparatory school of international students who were full of “free leisure”. Many students who entered the school were envious and admire. Her luck.
I wrote in an email to her, "This is not a lucky one. This is the reward you deserve for this year."
However, unfortunately, Oxford in the nightmare did not send her an invitation, but this did not hinder her good mood. In the autumn of 2003, she was still alone, dragging her big luggage to London. This time, her way went. More determined and more confident.
From time to time, she emailed me about the happy life at this university. She has excellent homework, outstanding grades in mathematics, and a chance to teach mathematics assistants to a lower grade student. During the holidays, she and her friends went on a trip, and her entire European continent left her crisp and hearty laughter...
At this point, I think this is already a very successful case. When students come to apply for a British undergraduate course, I often tell them about the embarrassing story. Studying abroad is not a shortcut that can be lazy, but only provides greater possibilities for development and more opportunities, but all the premise is hard work.
In 2005, when I had planned to collect the story of Yan with a series of representative cases I had done, I received a letter from you.
In the letter she said: "You have promised that I can read Oxford. This time, you have to give me a promise."
In the third year, more than two years of London life has cultivated her into a confident and beautiful woman. The girl from this town is planning her second leap – from the current school to Oxford. In the letter, she detailed her current situation, which is clear and logical. I can no longer connect her to the little girl who is crying on the phone.
Her course was very good during college, and the only flaw was the uneven scores in some subjects. My undergraduate major is statistical economics. The good mathematics foundation makes her statistical courses very prominent, while the economics courses are a little lacking. She was worried that she would be rejected by the school in her dreams because of that little bit, so she turned to New Oriental.
I looked at the transcripts and various information she sent in the attached files, and secretly applauded her. This time, I can assure myself that I will guarantee her with the lame Cantonese that I have learned temporarily: this must be! When I was negotiating, I and she both played "Oxford" on MSN.
The standard of the famous British universities is excellent rather than perfect. This is why the New Oriental British University study abroad service recommends many foreign graduate students to many college students. Oxford and Cambridge will never be a professional excellent because of the political differences in the postgraduate entrance examination. The people refused. We analyzed in detail all aspects of her strengths and weaknesses, and did not evade several courses with poor performance, and made a very convincing application.
Of course, just in case, she also applied to several other famous schools. One day, she was excited at MSN to tell me that she received an acceptance letter from Oxford, Imperial College and LSE three universities! No matter which one of them is enough enviable, let alone she got three!
"You guess where I will go?" She sent a sly expression.
I waited this time and watched her make a word on the screen: "Oxford." Laughing.
On the display photo of MSN, her smile bursts like a flower under the sky in London. Soon, she had to drag her baggage again and walk into her original synonymous with the British university, Oxford. Walk into your dreams.
Outside the window, the sun rises and the golden glow shrouds the crystal-clear New Oriental Building. At that time, the British Empire once claimed that "the sun does not fall empire" because the territory is all over the world, but the sun will eventually fall, and the former glory of the British Empire has no domineering. Really not falling, only dreams, and people who never give up for their dreams.