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Dear readers and fellow patients: I have completed registration today and officially begun the second university career of my life. Tomorrow (Monday) classes begin normally. Over the next few years I will no longer be a free agent but a full-time university student. I am…

After the gaokao ended and I confirmed my admission, I gave myself a few days off and took my family to a small island for a trip. It was my first time visiting an island. The island is small; walking around it takes less than…

Before I knew it, I have been writing on my personal blog and official account for ten years. From August 2015 to now, it has been exactly ten years. Over these ten years I have written around 3,000 articles totaling perhaps ten million words; because…

After this year's college entrance exam ended, I stayed busy for another week or more before finally wrapping up all sorts of miscellaneous matters, and only then could I relax and rest properly. A blood vessel between my left eye and forehead had been twitching…

After the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, my way of life changed a great deal. That year, because of the city lockdowns, going out was very inconvenient, and we were forced to look for some happiness close to home. As I rode my bicycle around the…

When you have walked through the storm alone, you are no longer the person you were. — Epigraph The college entrance exam is over, but today I still used the Maimemo vocabulary app to keep memorizing words. After finishing today's words and checking in on…

I have been in Beijing for 26 years, and only sometime this year did I finally feel a complete sense of belonging to this city, no longer always pining to return to my hometown. During the Spring Festival I met my older cousin back home.

As I have grown older, my temperament has become more and more easygoing. Perhaps because sex hormones no longer surge as they did in youth, or perhaps because I have seen more of the world, I have gradually taken everything more lightly. Fewer things irritate…

Some young medical students have left messages on my official account asking me to write about how to study medicine; I never quite knew where to begin. Just recently, a spate of medical scandals has surfaced. Jokes that even an illiterate person would not make—men…

Of all the years of my life, the one I miss most is the year I was nineteen. That was 1998-1999, and I was a freshman at an engineering university, studying the school's flagship major. If I had stayed in that program, I might now…