Ma Donghan will become a "schoolmaster" because of the great pressure he felt when he first entered school, which is also the same feeling of many excellent students when they first entered Tsinghua.

Li Baochun, a professor of electronic and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, once recalled: "When I first came to Tsinghua to study, I liked to learn by comparison. I didn't mean to find that the algorithm for assigning student numbers' refers' to the college entrance examination scores and students' places of origin at the same time. The students from Beijing are all at the forefront of the class. I am the first, three points more than Zheng, the second in Beijing. I can't help but be elated.

In terms of language. All this quickly turned into a beautiful memory after a semester or two, for two reasons. The first is to know that many awesome people didn't take the college entrance examination at all, so they went directly to Tsinghua and went to their favorite department. Secondly, I know that these people are really not vegetarians, and they can't keep up with the results of all courses related to mathematics. It's like finding that their cars are really bad when playing racing games, and no matter how good their skills are, there is no chance. Horse racing has become an ornamental event to see who wins and who goes out of these cows. Of course, these awesome people are close to full marks in exams, and they can't tell the difference. "

"Every year in Tsinghua, students jump off buildings. It turns out that it has always been the best. Once in Tsinghua, it is bound to rank lower, and some people can't accept it. In the first and second semesters, I remember the clearest sentence, that is, the counselor emphasized to us that we should correct our mentality and find our own position. " Jun Chen recalled.

Chao Huang, who went to Tsinghua as an undergraduate and graduated from Princeton with a doctorate, also said: "The students in Tsinghua give people the impression that they are less angular and talented. This is because there are not only many talents in Tsinghua, but also many talents in various fields. Maybe you are complacent. When you enter this atmosphere, you will naturally become honest and know that you have to work hard, which has created a very pragmatic style of study in Tsinghua. "

Ma Donghan's evaluation of himself is "poor adaptability". When she was a freshman in mechanical drawing class, she said that she was the kind of person with poor spatial imagination. If you give her a three-dimensional side to imagine other aspects of it, she can't imagine it. For a while, she was worried that she would fail the exam in this course. Calculus is also stupid from the beginning, and I often look at a blackboard and don't know what to say. In the last semester of her freshman year, she won the 26th place among the whole grade 150 students, which made her who always wanted to pursue the best suffer a great blow and was very confused. At that time, it happened that Ma Dongxin learned the method of time management with schedule in the class of "Introduction to Social Work", which gave her great inspiration.

Unlike Ma Donghan, Jun Chen is exactly what Li Baochun called a "great man". He has been the best student in his class since he entered Tsinghua. He gets full marks in math and physics every time. He never feels pressure, but he studies hard. "In Tsinghua, IQ is not bad. In the final analysis, who is better depends on who is more devoted to something. Most people with good academic performance have good self-management ability, which was not shown until they entered Tsinghua. Since childhood, they have developed the habit of pursuing Excellence and always striving for the first place. I have been getting up at 4 o'clock every morning to read books since junior high school. After entering Tsinghua, the activity scope is basically 4: 0 1 dormitory-classroom-library-canteen, and I haven't left Tsinghua for several semesters. There were no emergency lights at that time. After turning off the lights, I had to study with a flashlight until I was tired. " According to him, he is definitely not the only one who studies hard with a flashlight after turning off the lights: "There are three types of students in Tsinghua, and a few may have no motivation to play games every day because of strict management since childhood and good grades in middle school. Those who go abroad wholeheartedly work hard at English and don't care much about other courses; However, most students still work hard after entering Tsinghua. " Regarding Tsinghua's style of study, a well-known inspirational post circulated on the Internet: "Tsinghua people is working so hard, what about us?" Some students in Tsinghua don't like studying so much, but Tsinghua is extremely strict. In four years, if you fail in one subject, you will be disqualified from scientific research promotion, and if you fail in three subjects, you will drop out of school. Everyone should study crazily. Once in class, the author of the net post took a two-hour class and learned the VHDL language of the computer. After class, the teacher asked to compile a CPU with a frequency of 30M before Friday. If you can't do it, you will fail. Everyone is crazy because they don't know what the teacher is talking about, and this course will take a semester in the electronics department of other universities. So everyone frantically ran to the library to borrow books and went back to sleep.

I forgot to eat, and finally finished the program under great pressure. Similarly, even if the teacher speaks a wool, Xueba can knit a sweater.

However, several old schoolmasters in Tsinghua interviewed by the reporter agreed that "this post is not reliable".

"Some courses in our experimental class are really difficult. For example, a famous old professor in the physics department taught us electromagnetism. Usually, this course starts with the basic equations of electromagnetism and gradually transitions to relativity. On the other hand, it is difficult to understand that he first talks about relativity and then deduces the basic equations of electromagnetism. Once in the final exam, he gave six questions, the first three were relatively basic and the last three were very advanced. As a result, I didn't lose a point in the first three questions, and I didn't get a point in the last three questions. It's really hard. So is math class. When the teacher comes back from abroad, he will give us some questions to do every week or two. Two or three people in a class can do it, and he is very happy. However, this is limited to the experimental class. Generally, the education in the department is not so advanced. Students in Tsinghua are basically not worried about failing the exam. Everyone is so diligent and wants to win the first place. "

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