In the current environment, there are more and more college graduates, but the number of jobs has not increased. Therefore, in order to gain a comparative advantage in the future peer competition, college students are constantly striving to improve themselves in all aspects and make themselves better. Everyone is in the anxiety of being "abandoned" by the times, fearing that they are left behind. The phenomenon of involution is particularly obvious in famous schools. They are wearing the hats of famous schools and are concerned by the media. They also carry the expectations of parents and relatives. In order to get a better job and live a better life, they can only work hard, relax a little, and fall into a "down and out" situation, which will be labeled as "useless reading" by the world. Therefore, nowadays college students are very utilitarian in their pursuit of grades, rankings and rankings, and they will try their best to get more points. Many people put the postgraduate entrance examination on the agenda from freshman year. You think you are excellent, but you often find better people around you. You get up early and I get up earlier than you. You stay in the library, and I stay longer than you. There are always many people vying to sit in the front row in every class. Actively discuss problems with teachers after class and ask for courseware. Whether the course content is practical or not is not important, what is important is to get better grades.
How can you lie so comfortably in an atmosphere where everyone around you is in fierce competition? Just as everyone around you is studying hard, can you still play games at this time? You will only become more and more anxious and be forced to join the "volume". Because everyone around me is running hard, I can't stop myself. Watching everyone do this and doing it yourself will give you a sense of security. Some people will say that college students are too utilitarian and materialistic, and they don't enjoy the learning process and have no spirit of learning and creation, just to graduate quickly and find a high-quality job.
In fact, this is the sequela of the development of the times, and the class is becoming more and more solidified. After 70 s and 80 s, you can still enjoy the dividend of the times. Now, only by learning this road can more people change their destiny to the maximum extent and live a better life. So now higher education is more like a transaction of "investment and return". Students are trying to climb up through this path, in order to grasp the real and reliable straw of fate and gain a sense of control, because for them, this is the lowest risk personal investment. This is not a disadvantage of education, but a big environment.
For college students, being forced to "roll in" will make them feel anxious, but leaving "roll in" will face an uncertain future. Take the postgraduate entrance examination as an example. In 2022, the number of applicants for the postgraduate entrance examination was 4.57 million, and the enrollment was11.4 million, which means that one third of them have become cannon fodder. You can't guarantee whether you are a "winner" or a "loser" until the results come out. What you can do is to work harder in the involution competition, so that you can succeed more easily without a good family background, extra energy and capital, and nothing to help you find a good job. The reason why most college students feel involuted is that they have an expectation of low-level competition. After seeing a higher degree of competition, they feel that they can't accept what they could have easily obtained. Now they have to work several times more than before, and it is difficult to achieve psychological balance.
The major media are preaching success, and it is difficult to make people's expectations return to rationality. Everyone wants to stay in a big city, and everyone wants to buy a house in a big city. There is really no money, which makes the competition more and more fierce. Therefore, in an increasingly "complicated" environment, we should learn to set goals for ourselves and learn to adjust them with the changes of the times, instead of continuing to complete a mission that is doomed to be impossible according to the original goals. Although we are in the same school, everyone's development path is completely different. There is no need to follow in the footsteps of the public. We should consider whether it is helpful to our future development direction.