Chapter 148: Pheasant University
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But when Bruce spent the whole summer in a happy and relaxed mood, happily took his passport and visa, arrived at the airport in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and set foot on American soil with excitement, and came to that university, it was like someone had broken a scoop of cold water.
It's understandable to see that campuses are located in sparsely populated suburbs, as do many domestic universities. But what is puzzling is that the university has no walls, a few teaching buildings and student dormitories are nearly a kilometer apart, not to mention a farm in the middle, which is grazing cattle and sheep, welcoming the arrival of this group of new students with curious eyes. Could it be that the farm provides food exclusively for the school cafeteria?
Walking around the campus, a two-story building with a brick and stone structure, from the style of view, it is not so much a restaurant as a factory, he counted it carefully, and found that there were less than a thousand seats inside, so how many people can there be in this school? According to the scale of domestic universities, there are at least 5,000 people, how can these 1,000 seats be used for 5,000 people to eat at the same time during meal time, do you have to wait in line with lunch boxes and wait for seats? Is it because the United States is so vast and sparsely populated that even universities are affected?
There are no football fields and track and field fields, and perhaps the fields not far away are free-spirited and unrestrained. Run as far as you want, kick the ball as far as you want, kick as far as you want. There is no limit to being young.
The only thing that's okay is to have eight basketball courts, but judging by the cracked wood and mottled paint on the hoops, it looks like a product of the last century. Can't the school even come up with the funds to upgrade the basketball court facilities? The tuition fee of 300,000 yuan only needs the tuition fee of one student, and it can be replaced with the most luxurious facilities.
If the hardware conditions of sports are unsightly, at best, it is inconvenient for fitness and entertainment, then the cultural facilities are really beyond words, they all say that the library is an ocean of knowledge, and there are so many majors on the university campus, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the library that meets this need with sweat cows. Moreover, American university campuses have always paid great attention to innovation and exploration, and the library includes not only subject-related books, but also professional scientific research books.
Entering the library's collection room, he thought he had entered the temple of Western knowledge, but the ideal was very full, but the reality was very skinny. What he saw was that the library on a university campus had less than 50,000 books, and a library in his hometown town could easily compare it.
The textbooks in the hands of the hand, whether from the paper binding or from the printing and typesetting, look like cheap pirated copies, and even have typos. Usually university lecturers are older senior professors or scholars, but it's good here, those lecturers seem to be a few years older than Bruce, standing on the podium at a young age, and it seems that they have just graduated from another pheasant normal university. And he had never seen these lecturers click on and check the number of students before the class started; He had never seen a class, the classroom was full, and the students could join and leave at will, all kinds of free and easy without explanation.
There has never been an after-class practice, and there is no exam to find out, the only thing is the subject completion exam, and the following open book is copied by the wind and water, but the invigilator is blind and yawns with one arm on the countertop. Whether this test paper will be changed in the end is an unknown number, and it is not clear that a software will be used to generate a batch of random numbers above the passing line, which is their score.
When he went to the Internet with a bumpy and uneasy mood to check the relevant background of the school, he found that although the school has the qualifications to run a school and is a legal institution as promised by the overseas study agency structure, the academic qualifications issued by it are not recognized by the American society and employers, and he unfortunately encountered a "pheasant university".
When the family learned of this situation, they found the overseas training institution in a fit of rage, and what did they swear at the beginning? What about the introduction of the sky? How did the field trip completely change? The campus profile brochure provided at the beginning was so beautiful, like a paradise on earth, but when he went out to see it with his own eyes, he found that it was a completely different version, and Bruce wondered if the other party had borrowed the images of other famous universities in the United States to deceive himself, and used the method of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep to deceive himself.
In the case of repeated negotiations with the intermediary agency to no avail, the family sued the court and demanded that the other party compensate for all its losses, but such a difficult transnational case is not easy to deal with in court, and the intermediary has long expected the worst situation, which is nothing more than being sued by the excited parents to the court, and has already taken precautions to hire a lawyer from a well-known law firm with a high salary. Seeing the defendant's lawyer quoting scriptures in court, the judge nodded thoughtfully, and his hope of winning the case became more and more slim, and finally made a judgment that the intermediary had "reported untruthfully and publicized too much", imposed a symbolic fine of 20,000 yuan as compensation, and then it was over.
In other words, the 300,000 yuan was spent, but the result was that not only could you not learn any valuable knowledge here, but the diploma was not easy to make, and even when you returned to China, when you said the name of the university you studied, the other party was stunned.
Encountering this kind of thing, Bruce felt that he was dumb and bitter and said, since he couldn't change the reality, he could only change his mentality, and he should spend money to buy lessons, but he gave up early, he was still a little unwilling, and he still had a diploma from Pheasant University, and he could still get it, and he was also an overseas student. When I return to China, I can still hang some face. As long as people can survive until the day of graduation, this paper diploma will still be able to get their hands after all, otherwise how can this pheasant university be mixed up with money and diplomas?
Thinking of this, Bruce Quan should have spent money to buy four years of overseas life experience in the United States, as a trip and vacation.
Although fate played on himself so ruthlessly, Bruce was unwilling to give up his pursuit and desire for future happiness, since he couldn't learn knowledge in school, he went to the city library to study by himself, and since the diploma here has no gold content, he went to study and take some vocational skills exams in the United States, obtained vocational grade qualification certificates, and there was still a little weight in how much he returned to his country.