“Life is a wilderness, not a track.”
1 The graduate school entrance exam results are finally out. The wait is over. Some people made it through. Their hard work finally paid off. But more people didn’t make it. They have to keep struggling in the sea of hardship. According to the Ministry of Education website, 4.38 million people applied for the 2024 graduate school entrance exam. This is the first drop in three years. But it’s estimated that since most universities didn’t expand their enrollment this year, the number of graduate students admitted won’t be much different from previous years. Conservatively, around 1.1 million students were admitted. This means the competition for the 2024 graduate school entrance exam was still fierce. Over 3 million applicants didn’t get in. We don’t see the faces of the 3 million students who failed. But we can feel their pain, confusion, and unwillingness to be left behind, even through the screen. “My anxious heart finally died. I didn’t get into grad school. Am I really a failure?” “I refreshed the page over and over until I had to believe that score was really mine.” “History always repeats itself, but I’m always the unlucky one. This time, I was just one point short.”…