Chapter 535 Abused Drugs
In a dark room, a young man who was preparing for an exam was restless. The only two light sources in the room, one is the screen of the second-hand computer in front of him, and the other is the seventeen yuan desk lamp next to the computer screen.
"It's too difficult. It's impossible to pass the exam like this."
"In the written test and interview, there is a lot to learn for each item."
"It's too difficult to get a full scholarship."
"But if I don't have a full scholarship and can't get discounts from various schools, what will I do with my tuition and living expenses for the next semester?! The tuition fees for studying abroad are so expensive, and I was recruited into Harvard from China only because of my first grades. If my grades drop, will they send me back to the countryside?"
"No! I don't want to go back! I don't want to go back to the countryside! I want to live in a big developed city!"
The young man held his head in a daze.
His desk is full of various reference materials. But the young man is not in any mood to review now. Because the heavy academic pressure is about to overwhelm people. Mountains of reference materials, various tutorial books and test-taking books.
Learning knowledge is the only way for many people to change their destiny. They are born on the 18th floor of hell and want to climb back to the world layer by layer. What is needed is not hard work in the general sense, but the hard work of the cuckoo crying blood. As long as you're not dead, keep moving forward. Otherwise, wait to be washed back by the torrent.
The young man scratched his head vigorously, he couldn't concentrate, and he couldn't calm himself down.
The restlessness and uncertainty about the future, the fear of his own life as hell, made him sit on pins and needles.
cough cough.
A cough came from QQ, reminding the young man that a friend of his was online.
Drip drip.
An avatar in the friend list is shaking. The young man raised his head and looked at the screen. It was a netizen whose profile picture was Santa Claus and whose online name was [Change the World]. He is also a Chinese and is used to communicating with QQ.
He sent a message: How is your study recently? Can you pass the exam?
The young man's hand paused on the keyboard for a long time before he typed a line: It's okay.
Change the world: Your grades must be among the top three in the whole year. Otherwise, the school will not give you a full scholarship. Studying at Harvard is very expensive, and living and studying in the United States is also very expensive. Your hometown is a rural area in Southwest China, where there is no electricity or running water. If it wasn't for your excellent results in the college entrance examination and your talent in mathematics, the professor would not propose to the school to recruit you from China. If your grades drop and you disappoint the professor, then you may just have to go back to China. If you are lucky, you will take the college entrance examination again. If you are not lucky, you can only go to work.
The young man's hands trembled slightly in front of the computer: I... know. I also kept studying while I was working part-time during the holidays.
Changing the World: Have You Done the Mock Questions?
Young man: I did.
Changing the World: How Much?
Young: 75
Changing the World: Too Low! too low! too low!
Three consecutive words that were too low and three consecutive exclamation points made the young man flustered.
He hurriedly replied: But these questions are really difficult. I spent all my time outside of working to study. But the difficulty is really high.
Although Chinese people have been saying that the basic education in European and American countries is poor, high school students can't do math problems like Chinese junior high school students. And many people are keen to indulge in this type of story. That's because of the dual-line education implemented in developed countries. Common people's children go to public schools, receive happy education, and become happy workers like their parents when they grow up. The children of the rich go to private schools, receive comprehensive quality education, and then enter top universities, and when they grow up, manage society like their parents.
In the top universities in Europe and America, their teaching difficulty and scientific research difficulty are completely hell level. It is nothing special to get a score of 1500 on the SAT, but it is truly remarkable to be able to hold a full scholarship at Harvard, Yale, and MIT until graduation.
Young people don't feel that there is any problem in the first and second grades, and they can still keep up with the curriculum and maintain a score advantage. But after the third grade, I started to struggle slowly. Now in the fourth grade, he feels that the subject is getting more and more difficult. He also hopes to enter the professor's research group and take the postgraduate (master's) exam in the future. But if you can't maintain the top three in the whole year, you don't have a full scholarship, so you have to pay for the tuition yourself. Also pay for living expenses. He can't stand it.
The young man eagerly replied on the keyboard: But I tried my best, it was really difficult. Is there any way you can help me for the sake of fellow countrymen, I can't go on without a full scholarship, you know. Even a half scholarship is not enough, Harvard's tuition and accommodation fees are so expensive, I can't afford it! Can you intercede with the professor for me? Give me some time, I'll do more research.
An unbearable silence.
When the young man felt that he was about to be abandoned, Changing the World replied: There is no way for the professor. The professor's famous saying is that the first mathematician is a mathematician, and the second mathematician can't achieve great things. It is useless for me to plead. The professor only looks at the grades and only your understanding of mathematics. He only appreciates mathematics, not us.
Young people's hearts are getting more and more urgent: what should we do?
Changing the World: Have You Heard of Smart Drugs?
Young People: Smart Drugs? what is that?
CHANGING THE WORLD: Oh, you're from China. I should have never heard of it. In top private schools in Europe and the United States, some students secretly take so-called smart drugs because of the heavy workload. Adderall, Ritalin, Modafinil. Can boost the spirit, focus and improve memory. Nearly all of America's top private schools have students taking these drugs. Many students in our school (Harvard) and universities such as Cambridge and Massachusetts are taking it. You know Lawrence, right?
Young man: Wait! He is the sixth in our age group. But I never watched him study much, I just watched him play every day. I thought he was a genius, as long as he worked a little harder, he could be number one in his grade.
Change the world: Hehe, shit genius. He had fun day and night, and at night he took drugs and studied like crazy. You can see that he seems to be fooling around in class, but every time he takes class, he needs it.
Young man: so good? ! Can you get this medicine? !
Changing the World: Good? What a fart. These drugs are addictive and contain psychostimulants. Know why you don't know about these smart drugs in China? These things have a strong addictive component. I tell you these to remind you. I know it's not easy for you, and I can provide you with medicine, which is very easy to buy in the United States. But I also want to tell you clearly about the dangers in this. Do you choose to use drugs, or do you work hard on your own.
The young man was caught in a dilemma, but looking at the bright lights of the city outside the window and the corner of his small dwelling, he gritted his teeth and made up his mind: I want medicine!
Change the world: OK, you're an adult, don't regret the decisions you make.
Then his profile picture went dark, and the young man didn't know whether his choice was right or wrong.
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"The sun is shining in the sky, the flowers are smiling at me, and the little bird is saying early morning, why are you carrying a pack of explosives..."
Early in the morning in Hive City, Zhang Tong hummed nursery rhymes and cleaned his shop. A well-dressed man with gold-rimmed glasses outside the door asked Zhang Tong kindly: "Boss, do you have breakfast here?"
ps: The ingredients in the so-called smart drug are very close to amphetamine, and it is a heat stroke stimulant. Some stupid parents in China really ask people to buy smart medicine imported from the United States for their children, but after taking it for a short period of time, they have seen a significant improvement in their grades. But these drugs are highly addictive, and taking them for a long time can cause cognitive impairment. If you have watched "Never Ending" starring Cooper, you will know that the movie exaggerates the function of the so-called smart medicine. But the side effects of smart drugs in reality are no less than those in movies. In the movie, Cooper's girlfriend in middle school took smart drugs for a long time and finally suffered from strong cognitive impairment, unable to work and live normally.
Here I write these not only for the needs of the plot, but also hope to do some popular science for more people. Many people are now selling these under the name of smart drugs. Not only the United States, Hong Kong can also smuggle these in. Again, these things are another level of drugs. Neither parents nor students should use this kind of thing.
Today I received a push message for such a smart drug in a text message, and I reported it directly.
The drug abuse in American colleges and universities mentioned in the novel is real. In the BBC documentary "Drug Dependence", many top students at Cambridge University admitted that they were taking or had taken drugs such as Ritalin. In a small survey of students at American Ivy League schools, about 13 percent of students had used similar drugs to improve their grades.
In private high schools in the United States, many students use narcolepsy as an excuse to buy the prescription drug Modafinil to improve concentration and memory. Use this to improve your score and get into the university of your choice.