Chapter 69: Rushing for the Dream
The number of candidates admitted to the all-army examination has a bearing on the honor of the troops, and the brigade headquarters not only arranged for three months of intensive review, but also arranged for five instructors to provide us with guidance.
One of them is the lieutenant who went to our battalion to invigilate the exam, who has passed the sixth level of English and is responsible for English tutoring, and the other four are his classmates in the military academy, who graduated at the same time, and tutored Chinese, mathematics, physics, and chemistry respectively.
The centralized review site is set up in the teaching team, by the sea and near the river, the Huangfu River flows into the Yangtze River here, there is a resounding name here called Wusongkou, the sea can actually be said to be the mouth of the Yangtze River, through the front of the embankment forest, is the vast East China Sea.
The barracks of the teaching team are three old-fashioned three-story buildings, neatly arranged in three rows, located on the east side and the classrooms and canteens on the west side, separated by a courtyard wall, which has several small gates, one of which is connected to the river embankment outside the courtyard.
During the intensive review period, the management is still relatively strict, but as long as it is a review, walking along the embankment with textbooks will not be stopped, and the two sides of the embankment have unique scenery and can lead to the sea.
The attention paid by the brigade headquarters is also manifested in the fact that it has carefully prepared the textbooks for the unified examination of the military academy and various school supplies for us, and the food is much better than that of the company in the later stage.
Early the morning of the second day when I reported to the teaching team, my old company commander and current leader of the teaching team shouted my name and "your instructor has come to see you" in front of our dormitory on the playground.
The captain of the teaching team and the officer of the cadre section on the playground enthusiastically greeted me, showing that the two of them were full of confidence in me to be admitted to the military academy and that I was an excellent soldier trained by them.
Life needs to be experienced, the richer the experience, the more colorful life is, and life also needs opportunities, once seized, good luck has always been with you.
It's just that my luck is too good, the two most important teachers in my life, after leading me through two years of soldier life, one went to the teaching team to be responsible for the management of cadet seedlings, and the other went to the cadre section to be responsible for the enrollment of military schools, and sent me on my last journey.
All the cadets who participated in the military academy examination studied very hard, because this was a unified examination for the whole army, and the examination was supervised by someone arranged by the superiors.
The five instructors arranged by the brigade party committee are indeed of very high cultural quality, and they are particularly conscientious and responsible; every class is carefully prepared and explained in detail, and it is some basic knowledge.
We are the students of the seedlings, at this time completely back to the student days, like me is not a few, but all of them are humble and cautious, as long as they don't understand, they will take the initiative to ask for advice, some find teachers, some discuss with each other, there is no shortage of excellent results in the college entrance examination, always spare no effort to patiently explain, comrade-in-arms, at this time the performance is particularly strong.
At that time, recruiting students from the army was still the main way for military schools to recruit cadets, and generally speaking, as long as they were sent to the training team to study, they could basically pass the examination. After graduating from our military academy, the proportion of local students began to increase, and the number of recruits in the army decreased sharply, and only two or three were recruited in the last brigade.
This is in line with the needs of the development of the modernization of the armed forces; modern warfare under high-tech conditions is becoming less and less dependent on the combat capability of individual soldiers, more attention is being paid to the building of qualified personnel, and the channels for recruiting students in military academies are also getting wider and wider.
The hard work during the teaching team made me feel many times that if I could do this in school, or if I could do it all over again, I would definitely shape a more perfect life, so I paid more attention to this opportunity, and if I didn't grasp it, I was destined to be even more imperfect.
The other cadets also worked hard, whether they had the dream of stepping into the highest hall of their lives like me, or they didn't know where to go after they left the army, or they realized their family's entrustment and added glory to their families, or they had the dream of being an officer since childhood, none of them did not show great cherishment of this opportunity.
After changing jobs, I came across the term "emotional intelligence" from the media, and I was deeply touched that "IQ" is not the only determinant of growth, and sometimes "emotional intelligence" may be the determinant of success.
We often find that there are many people around us who have a higher IQ than us, but they are sensible earlier than us, more mature than us, know diligence, know hard work, and know that enterprising and hard work will pay off, so they succeed earlier than us, because their EQ is much higher than ours.
Because of this feeling, people begin to be careful, cautious, careful, attentive, diligent, and always hard, optimize the interpersonal environment for personal development, grasp the opportunities for personal development, and solve the internal needs of personal development.
When we were students, we would hold books all the way and walk along the path to the river, and we would find a grass by the river to sit down, or sit under the big tree by the river, memorize texts and words, and we would also pace back and forth with books on the ridge in front of the school.
The river whispers softly, the insects whisper one after another, the breeze is like a mother's hand, and the mountains move with the people.
There are no green mountains here, but there is a broader sea, the habit of the student days is back, and the feeling is also back, three or three along the embankment to the seaside, sometimes choose a prominent reef, sit on it, review in the sound of the waves, sometimes walk along the seaside path while reading a book, sometimes will also stop and concentrate, looking at the sea and thinking about their own thoughts.
The river embankment has a different kind of scenery, the green trees are shady, the river is quiet, extending to the seawall, and the waves swallow the reef, the high-rise buildings of the metropolis in the distance are like forests, and the chic courtyard seats are nearby, quiet and peaceful, walking and walking, you can often see the teenagers who look like students, sitting alone and quietly sketching.
Integrated, itself also becomes a part of the landscape, this is the city, for us from the countryside, never experienced, the drawing board and the color of the pen, are the first time to see, a little sound after the station, carefully detailed, the lines on the drawing board are beautiful, the outline is clear, it is a seaside landscape.
Once able to have but missed, it will always make people look forward to it inexplicably, we can no longer have such youth, and we can no longer receive literary and artistic enlightenment education, although we did not have the conditions to accept it in our youth, everything can only be recalled, how can we not be nostalgic.
Across the river is Wusongkou Town, a small island in the heart of the river, condensed urban prosperity, during which we were attracted to go together several times, there are ferries on the wide river, revealing the luxury of modern means of transportation, and the wooden boat I sat on when I was a child is not good to compare, facing the river breeze, enjoying the sea view, browsing the skyscrapers, feeling the different atmosphere, and having a different vision.
The instructor who has passed the sixth level of English, during the period with his classmates, once called me to go along, remembering his great help to me, and the sincere care after joining the teaching team, thinking of repaying it, but every time I fought for payment, I would be strongly refused, with the majesty of the teacher, unreasonable, but unreasonable, more caring.
From July 1 to 3 in '96, the higher authorities sent people to organize the examination, and only then did I see these students who entered the teaching team, all of whom had good skills, and some even passed the undergraduate examination, and I was affected by the weak foundation and on-the-spot performance, and finally barely passed, stepping on a score that was more than ten points higher than the admission line, and was admitted to the military academy.
After three months of intensive training, the comrades-in-arms were deep, and one of them had a fellow countryman with worse grades, sat next to me, and took advantage of the invigilator to turn around, always signaling me to give the answer, and when the answer was copied on the manuscript paper and thrown to him, the invigilator found that when he commented after the exam, he was criticized by name in front of the team.
Fortunately, it was just a criticism, not an example, no notification to the brigade department, and no disqualification from the exam, the first exam was criticized by this, and no matter if there was any violation of the discipline of the examination room, this fellow did not give up, and still asked me to give the answer, but I did not dare to pass it on, so he fell off the list, and gave birth to a lot of opinions about me, and returned to his hometown after many years, and still showed something.
The admission rate of military schools is really high, there are nearly 60 students in our batch of cadets, only four of them have not been admitted, some of them have been admitted to the undergraduate program, some of the worse have been admitted to the technical secondary school, and more are like me, who have been admitted to the junior college.