Life in a Chinese public high school in Wuhan, 2018–2021, and how it shaped my academic journey.

Fitting into this system doesn’t mean renouncing the person I was before I entered it. I have to remind myself of that more often than I’d like.

And I was catching my breath
Staring out an open window
Catching my death
And I couldn't be sure
I had a feeling so peculiar
That this pain would be for
Evermore

I hope you will learn, oh my, you will learn so much, but I hope you are learning not just to escape something, but in pursuit of something greater than yourself.

从这里出发，是幸运的吗。

我为我的庸俗而哭，我为拿走商场里最便宜的鸡蛋而哭，我为我攥在手里的存款而哭，我为我别扭的自尊心而哭，我为我自作聪明的现实主义而哭。但我什么也做不了，我只能哭。