In a dark room, a young man preparing for an exam was restless. There were only two light sources in the room, one was the screen of the second-hand computer in front of him, and the other was the seventeen yuan table lamp next to the computer screen.

"It's too difficult, you can't pass the exam like this. ”

"There are a lot of things to learn about the written test and interview. ”

"It's so hard to get a full scholarship. ”

"But if I don't have a full scholarship and can't get discounts from various schools, what will I do with my tuition and living expenses for the next semester? If my grades drop, will they send me back to the countryside?"

"No! I don't want to go back! I don't want to go back to the countryside! I want to live in a big developed city!"

The young man was a little stunned and hugged his head.

His desk was piled up with references. But the young man was in no mood to review right now. Because the pressure of heavy schoolwork is about to crush people. Mountains of reference materials, various tutorial books and test-taking books.

Learning knowledge is the only way for many people to change their fate, born on the eighteenth floor of hell, and want to climb back to the world layer by layer. What it takes is not an ordinary effort, but a cuckoo's bloody struggle. As long as you're not dead, move on. Otherwise, just wait to be swept back by the rapids.

The young man scratched his head vigorously, unable to concentrate his attention, nor able to calm himself down.

Restlessness and uncertainty about the future, fear of one's own life that would otherwise be like hell, all make it feel like pins and needles.

Ahem.

A cough came from QQ, alerting the young man that he had a friend online.

Drip, drip, drip.

An avatar in your friends list is shaking. The young man looked up at the screen, and it was a netizen with an avatar of Santa Claus and a screen name called "Change the World". He is also a Chinese and is used to communicating with QQ.

He sent a message: How are you studying lately? Can you pass the exam?

The young man's hand paused on the keyboard for a few moments before typing a line: Okay.

Change the world: You need to stay in the top three of your grade. Otherwise, the school will not give you a full scholarship. Studying at Harvard is expensive, and living and studying in the United States is also expensive. Your hometown is a rural area in the southwest, and there is no electricity or running water. If you hadn't done a great job in the gaokao and showed a talent for math, the professor wouldn't have proposed to the school to recruit you from China. If your grades drop and your professor is disappointed, you may have to go back to China. If you're lucky, you'll retake the college entrance examination, and if you're unlucky, you'll have to go to work.

The young man's hand trembled slightly in front of the computer: I ...... Know. I also studied while I was working part-time during the holidays.

Changing the World: Did the Mock Questions Be Done?

YOUNG MAN: Yes.

Changing the World: How Many Points?

Young people: 75

Change the world: too low! too low! too low!

Three words that were too low in a row and three exclamation points in a row made the young man feel flustered.

He hurriedly replied: But these questions are really difficult. I took all the time out of my part-time job to study. But the difficulty is really high.

Although Chinese people have been saying that basic education in European and American countries is very poor, high school students do not know how to do math problems for Chinese junior high school students. And a lot of people are keen to indulge in this kind of story. That's because of the two-line education practiced in developed countries, where the children of ordinary people go to public schools, receive a happy education, and grow up to be happy workers like their parents. The children of the wealthy attend private schools, receive a well-rounded quality education, and then go to top universities, where they grow up to run society like their parents.

In the top universities in Europe and the United States, the difficulty of their teaching and scientific research is completely at the level of hell. A score of 1,500 on the SAT is not a big deal, and it is really great to be able to get a full scholarship at Harvard, Yale, and MIT until graduation.

Young people don't feel like there's anything wrong with them in the first and second grades, they can keep up with the curriculum, and they maintain their score advantage. But after the third grade, it began to work hard. Now in the fourth grade, he feels that the subject is getting more and more difficult. He also hopes to join the professor's research group and take the postgraduate (master's) examination in the future. But if you can't keep the top three in the whole grade, you don't have a full scholarship, so you have to pay for the tuition yourself. You also have to pay for living expenses. He couldn't support it.

The young man eagerly replied to the message on the keyboard: But I tried my best, it was really difficult. Is there any way you can help me for the sake of my fellow countrymen, I can't continue without a full scholarship, you know. Even if it's half a scholarship, Harvard's tuition and accommodation fees are so expensive, I can't afford it! Can you help me intercede with my professor? Give me some time, I'll study more.

An unbearable silence.

When young people feel that they are going to be abandoned, change the world and reply with a paragraph: There is no way on the professor's side. The professor's famous quote is that the mathematician who ranks first is a mathematician, and the mathematician who ranks second cannot make a big deal. It was useless for me to intercede. Professors only look at grades and only look at your understanding of math. He only appreciates mathematics, not us.

The young man's heart is getting more and more urgent: what to do then?

Changing the World: Have You Ever Heard of Smart Drugs?

Young man: Smart medicine? What's that?

Changing the world: Oh, you're from China. I should really not have heard that in the top private schools in Europe and the United States, because of the heavy workload, some students secretly take the so-called smart drugs. Adra, Ritalin, Modafinil. It can boost the spirit, concentrate and improve memory. Students at almost all high-end private schools in the United States take these drugs. Many students in our school (Harvard), Cambridge, Massachusetts and other universities take it. You know Lawrence.

YOUNG MAN: Wait! He's the sixth in our age. But I never watched him study, I just watched him play every day. I thought he was a genius who could be the first in his grade if he worked a little harder.

Changing the world: Hehe, bullshit genius. He was happy at night during the day, and at night he was crazy about drugs and studying. You see, he seems to be in class as a child, but every time before class, he asks for it.

Young man: So good?!Can you get this medicine?!

Changing the world: Okay? What a fart. These drugs are addictive and contain psychostimulant ingredients. Do you know why you don't know these smart drugs in China? These things are very addictive. I'm telling you this to give you a reminder. I know it's not easy for you, I can provide you with medication, which is good to buy in the United States. But I also want to make it clear to you about the dangers. Do you choose to use drugs, or do you try it yourself?

The young man was in a dilemma, but looking out the window at the brilliant lights of the city and the corner where he lived, he gritted his teeth and made up his mind: I want medicine!

Change the world: Well, you are an adult, make your own decisions and do not regret them.

Then his avatar darkened, and the young man did not know whether his choice was right or wrong.

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"The sun is shining in the sky, the flowers are smiling at me, the birds say early, why are you carrying a bag of explosives......"

Early in the morning in Hive City, Zhang Tong hummed a nursery rhyme to clean up his shop. Outside the door, a neatly dressed man with gold-rimmed glasses asked Zhang Tong kindly, "Boss, do you make breakfast here?"

PS: The so-called smart drug, which has an ingredient very close to anandamide, is a heat stroke stimulant. In China, some stupid parents really let people buy smart drugs imported from the United States for their children, but in the short term, they have seen a significant improvement in performance. However, these drugs are highly addictive, and long-term consumption can cause cognitive impairment. If you have watched "Neverending" starring Cooper, you will know that the movie exaggerates the function of the so-called smart drugs. But in reality, the side effects of smart drugs are no less than in the movies. In the movie, Cooper's girlfriend in middle school took smart drugs for a long time and finally suffered from strong dementia and was unable to work and live normally.

I am writing these here not only for the needs of the plot, but also for more people to do some popular science. Now a lot of people are selling these under the guise of smart drugs. Not only the United States, but Hong Kong can also smuggle these in. Again, these things are drugs of another degree. Neither parents nor students should use this kind of thing.

Today I received a push of such a smart drug in a text message, and I reported it directly.

And the drug abuse in American colleges and universities mentioned in is real. In the BBC documentary "Drug Dependence", many top students at Cambridge University admit that they are taking or have taken drugs such as Ritalin. In a small survey of students conducted by Ivy League schools in the United States, about 13 percent of them have used similar drugs to improve their grades.

In private high schools in the United States, many students use narcolepsy as an excuse to buy the prescription drug Modafinil to improve concentration and memory. Use this to improve your score and get into the university of your choice.