Will you pass? And even if you do, will you graduate? Can you compare your three years of graduate school with three years of work experience? University microcontroller teacher in front of the whole professional students asked me. I have a good memory. After four years, I am about to graduate from graduate school, but I can clearly reproduce the teacher’s words. I didn’t know the answer to this question before, but now I can confidently answer it: I can graduate.

Improve your education as much as you can

Here is to share the journey of the postgraduate entrance examination of this dish chicken. It’s long.

Before the university, I didn’t think about what would happen after the university. I was just happy like a little fool all day, enjoying the wonderful college time. When the junior year was coming to an end, everyone was discussing the future arrangements, such as postgraduate entrance examination, internship, entrance examination, starting a business or what? I woke up to the fact that I had been in a second-rate high school in high school and had done my best to get a third-rate bachelor’s degree. After entering the university, it seemed that everyone did not know how to study, and they were just like sheep grazing freely. The university allowed you to develop freely. Therefore, when THINKING about the future after graduation, I also began to ask myself, what do you really want? I’m not the only one. It seems that when everyone gets to this age, they become very confused. My college days of running to the classroom for specialized courses, busy with clubs and watching movies in the dormitory are coming to an end. In a flash, I feel that I have achieved nothing in these years of flying youth. I couldn’t help but ask myself, what am I really studying in this university? Fortunately, I clearly know what I want: to continue learning. At present, I do not have the quality needed to find an ideal job, no matter the depth of my major or the breadth of my knowledge. I want to give myself more time to improve myself and become more excellent. At the same time, go to a wider world, meet a better group of people. So I decided to take the postgraduate entrance examination this road of no return, even this road, walk is so lonely.

It was fixed on a date in May 2016. I sorted out my own equipment, a backpack, a cup, a set of postgraduate entrance examination books, and a clear heart, striding toward the self-study room, really began my postgraduate entrance examination road. I was new, just like you are now, full of courage, but also like a flustered child, not knowing where to start. I was eager for the guidance of seniors, but no one told me how to go. I only groped bit by bit by myself. I visited the forum of postgraduate entrance examination, saw countless posts of experience, paid attention to many micro-blogs related to postgraduate entrance examination, and consulted all kinds of questions to seniors who had been admitted, but others were always different from me. I began to really think about how to go my own way. The postgraduate entrance examination became my priority in my junior and senior years. I gave up running for the deputy department and stopped doing class work. The three years seemed like a dream. People are pushed forward by various factors. In any case, I still believe that even if fate decides our choice, the unknown ahead is as mysterious as the mystery, which always makes me move.

In October, students began to leave school to practice, once busy and familiar dormitory, also changed into a very quiet. Walking in the campus, even if deliberately slow down, also can’t see those familiar faces, summer gradually disappeared without shadow, autumn quietly dyed yellow ginkgo leaves on both sides of the road. Carrying a bag at night, under the street lamp, elongated figure of the boy, used to look at the stars smile, static enjoy this moment of relaxation, life is full and beautiful. Have a goal of life, let oneself be most willing to pay.

November is the most difficult month, I feel time is too urgent, and I feel that I have not reviewed anything, and my confidence is not as good as before. The most hateful thing is that my body also begins to strike, and I feel dizzy and sick every afternoon. I don’t want to stay in the study room, but just want to walk on the playground and breathe two fresh air.

In the morning in the north, it was so cold in the study room at six o ‘clock that I had to carry a hand warmer and a hot water bottle. On the stool lay an old down jacket to cover the legs. The sudden drop in temperature did not affect the study room that group of lovely people, go all out to pursue their dreams. The recitation of politics, English compositions, and short answer questions for specialized courses seemed endless, forcing the corridor, the woods in the back garden, the attic of the study room, the empty classroom, and even the toilet, to be recited. I am just one of the many people who take the postgraduate entrance examination. There are many people who pay more than me.

Finally, all the suffering will come to an end. The most important two days in 2016 are December 24 and 25. All the hotels near the exam sites were full after losing ground in the fierce struggle for room reservations. It must have been a difficult night to sleep. I stay up late, flip through political books, lie in bed when I’m sleepy, and all kinds of trivia just pop into my head. Tossing and turning, unable to sleep, he got up to read again.

The next day 5, 6 o ‘clock, day light, on the corpse of the general wake up, everyone in the examination room, in addition to the heart is hot, limbs already cold to no.

Try a low-ranking because of math ability not line, so the preparation second-round exam, seven books, half a month time, wish a day for two days, finally, the day after the second interview, senior gave me a list of full-time study admitted, to recognize the written first, liberation, I also am 985 graduate student, I am going to put this good news, tell my mom and dad, Tell my teachers and classmates, tell my relatives and friends, but when the results were posted, I was changed into a part-time, looking at the front of the four schools, and a little change in the interview results, I silently accepted the results……

But how can I explain to my relatives, friends, mom and dad? Helpless, I can only frustrated pain constantly look back this desirable campus, and now, after the side in a hurry, I’m going to be turned to leave, I a person, quietly leave the campus, tears hazy look at exchanges between students, once I also fantasy is one of them, once I thought I was one of them, but this is only once, is my wishful thinking.

I set foot on the train back, full of thoughts.

I was really disheartened, lying in bed all day, sleeping day and night, woke up, silently lying on the bed tears, feel that their efforts have no meaning, living every day can not see the sunrise of life, can not find the direction, unwilling, unwilling to others in the exam, he did not pass the exam. Unwilling, once so hard, but for such a result.

Thanks to my teachers, relatives and friends, who gave me meticulous care during my most difficult period, let me survive, recognize the most important task at present, is to graduate well.

Sweat on the golf course together, eating bread to the classroom, sitting in the bedroom to play the game, with the tacit understanding of ridicule, together in the cafeteria, argued eat what, clink drink on the table, together with gossip, chase play together, after the movie, before together to stay up late, cram, together for a topic, red-faced, for bachelor’s clothing, together with graduate, At the time of the most happy to show off in an ostentatious manner, at the time of most depressed and gloomy, is, is right beside you, spent four years with the happiest time of those people, finally ushered in the final separation, drunk as a dog, for the first time, and last time, later any further not so crazy, so drunk, don’t be so sad anymore.

During the day, I sent you on the train. At night, I circled around the campus alone, passing through familiar places. Every place here, I left countless traces of your past and footprints.

Graduation, anticipation heavy once upon somewhere in one day, has achieved a certain degree, for four years, the two certificates, from a new starting point, the drop rolled forward, quietly slip away the years, I learned to cherish, understand the pursuit, because lost time of relentless and the lack of pay, how time flies, time in hard, youth is not perfect, the person you like, Maybe this life does not belong to you, you chase the dream, maybe this life is just a dream, but how about this, at least, we have liked, have a dream, the most important thing is that we once had the whole once, only in this way, is everyone’s unique youth ah. All the old days are glimmers of light in the cracks of youth.

After seeing off the last classmate, I rented a 10-square-meter cubicle. Sitting here every day at my rickety little desk, preparing for my first exam and dreaming of my postgraduate life. Postgraduate entrance examination is a hard thing, and what is even harder than the postgraduate entrance examination is the Second World War. The second world war is partly because of the persistence of the goal, and partly because of the unwillingness to take part in it.

2017 has been a long and exhausting year for me. How many times HAVE I been unable to sleep at night, how many times have I sat alone on the windowsill and watched the east turn white, how many times have I been at a loss, how many times have I been sad and depressed, choking and suffocating, that little vision and fantasy has been supporting these 365 days and nights.

A lot of people can’t imagine that a person or a group of people, in a year, just in one place, repeated do one thing, this person, or the body of this group of people, psychological will have what change, the result is one of the few people have the same strength, confidence into the examination room, and win the victory, others will be confidence to pieces, fled, experienced a major failure in life, In this process, there will be some changes in body and mind, extremely sensitive to things around, the most common is sleepy, a lot of phenomena, away from the postgraduate entrance examination, perhaps will not be experienced. Another day of repetition.

Between mathematics and English, between exhaustion and excitement, between dormitory and classroom, between chasing and leading, between friends’ care and parents’ care, in the countdown 100 days and 50 days, between day and night, in a road, see the change of the four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, the different colors of the grass.

Used A4 scratch paper, has been build up to the waist, a book, have seen for N times, the examination of the end of the bell rang, step by step on the road to walk, staring at the comings and goings of people from work, I dialed the telephone of dad, dad, I got out, and then, finally, endure for two days, not is the tears of the year, tumbling down, wandering in the heavy rain, Basketball hit the ground splashing water, wet hair, can not open eyes, are soaked with my future of all kinds of fantasy.

Just received the admission notice, a 985 because of every subject is not very high, very evenly I know myself and writing experience posted on BBS, compared to 400 + the bosses of difference is not too far, so after going to the dust settles, mountain seclusion, publicity, no longer want to carefully, from preparation to the first try, try again wait for qualifying examination results published, Waiting for the announcement of the second interview list, preparing for the second interview, the second interview, waiting for the announcement of the intended admission result, every day is spent in tension and anxiety, the time span is as long as several months. All kinds of taste, postgraduate entrance examination talent understand.

Maybe the postgraduate entrance examination is another new starting point to change their destiny. It is a trip that will make people miss but do not want to repeat. After many years, maybe we will thank ourselves for working so hard in those days and for those wonderful encounters.

I was lucky in this year. Although I was in a low point at the beginning of last year due to various setbacks, I achieved everything I had hoped for in one year.

Trough is not necessarily despair, more likely to be rebirth, no wasted efforts, everything is the best arrangement, today, often with gratitude.

Plan ahead

Prepare early, practice as much as possible, and lay a solid foundation

Although I went through the postgraduate entrance examination, the intensity of postgraduate study still made me adapt to it for a period of time, and I finished three years of courses in half a semester. Then I devoted myself to the laboratory, reading papers, building models, solving and optimizing, and writing papers. Life is as peaceful as a small town, and nothing big ever happens.

19 winter vacation according to the usual, just a few days of vacation, I took a computer to go home, what papers, PPT all stay in school, home is to relax. To my surprise, the vacation lasted for 10 months.

Lead to lazy at home for a long time, busy and nephew, niece play, busy decorating the house. A twinkling of an eye on April, the subject subject did not see, looking for a job did not learn. His only achievement was that his weight rose from 130 to 154.

As if isolated from the rest of the world, everyday nest at home, douyin video brush one after another.

In April, I accidentally chatted with my roommate and learned that he was brushing questions. You need to register ox customer or Leetcode. A week after the chat, I registered my account and began to brush questions. Because usually do model solution optimization also use some algorithms, do the first simple question unexpectedly passed, instant expansion, this has what good brush, will.

It is not so simple. When I talked with an upperclassman in my undergraduate course, I realized that it is the same thing. I went to cow guest looked, only to find a lot of big guy’s thinking is very clear, clever solution, this just sink to heart, with a day of two questions frequency began to brush. Interspersed with the report of the project, or to read the paper, write PPT, brush intermittently. I have learned c# before, so I went through the basic syntax of Java for a week. Hard to avoid a blow to confidence.

Time lasted until May, finally except for the difficult questions, all brush. At this time that the laboratory students just began to brush, in line with the spirit of the elder brothers, I decided to wait for them, this wait, weight increased 5 catty, straight 160.

In June, my roommate told me that he had found an internship in a bank and asked me to prepare for the interview. Surface… Interview, the university prepares to take an examination of grind directly, did not have several interview. Go ahead and see what Java development asks. Download some hire, some straight hire, see the demand, a lot of never heard of the noun.

  • Familiar with Java collection, IO, multithreading;

  • Familiar with network and operating system; Good algorithm foundation;

  • Familiar with MySQL, NoSQL and other common databases; Familiar with database performance optimization;

  • Familiar with SpringMVC, Spring, MyBatis, SpringBoot and other open source frameworks;

  • Proficient in Redis, ActiveMQ, Shiro, Tomcat and other middleware technologies;

  • Familiar with maven, Eclipse/IDEA, git/ SVN and other common tools, and familiar with common operation commands in Linux.

  • Familiar with SpringCloud… How to see these, suddenly also panic god. Like me so confused people, like me looking for people, like me so mediocre people, how many people have you seen…

Then all sorts consult to big guy, crazy look for data to review. I got a bunch of stuff, but I don’t know where to start. It’s like a man who has never been in water falls into the sea and struggles, but sooner or later he will drown. Just then Brother Xuan arrived in his yacht. Yes, I saw the operating system of Brother Xuan by chance, which was illustrated with clear ideas and neatly typeset, which inspired me a lot. Can I also do the same, make a neat note, easy to review, study more organized.

Prepare according to the interview requirements, starting from the Java foundation, collection, IO. Did a resume, cast a byte of advance batch, resume hanging. I don’t have a project? I went back to the SSM framework. After reading a project source code and drawing a brain map, I think I can do it again.

Start interview small company interview small test knife, interview feeling can also, ask the set of framework, source code, answer is still complete. And then I went to interview Ali, and I was shocked, and the execution process of MySQL by the way, the difference between threads and processes, the difference between concurrency and parallelism, the way threads are terminated, all of these things that seem so basic to me now, at the time were so difficult that I wanted to get into them.

There’s so much I don’t know. So June to July in meditation to repair the foundation. I watched 37 hours of concurrent videos first, and I thought the teacher was very thorough. I watched the whole video twice as fast and took notes while watching it. I watched it in 5 days.

In the morning, I reviewed what I had learned before, learned new knowledge in the afternoon, and brushed questions in the evening. I learned 1 o ‘clock in the morning every day. I was tired and full, and DARED not slack off a little. For some brand-new knowledge, I usually watch videos to get a quick start and read books to learn deeply. Those familiar with it will read the knowledge points sorted out by some authoritative bloggers, such as Brother Cxuan, Brother Guide and brother Hollis. Then organize it into your own notes.

So the brain picture one after another, knowledge increases more and more. The knowledge system is getting better and better,

When I feel that I can again, I will try to go to the cow guest to see ten thousand literal classics, try to answer, answer the good to skip, answer the bad to continue to add notes.

Finally in a bank approved in advance of the interview, and the interviewer have to chat back and forth, was once praised, asked whether the newspaper what training class, is not a class. That night, I was particularly accurate three-point shot, after a sweat, bath to sleep.

In August, I began to rewrite my resume and read open source projects. My academic background allowed me to have written exams in most companies. However, my ability to write codes was so weak that few companies could pass the written exams. To make up for the tearing code, first from the most basic sorting, learning algorithms from scratch, dynamic programming. I read the algorithm notes of Labuladong, and gained a lot. I had the opportunity to pass the written examination of several companies. However, the autumn recruitment preparation was too late, and the application was too late. I started to send resumes in large quantities at the end of August. In this year’s remote interview, the big guys had no cost for the interview, which took up a lot of HC.

Until the middle of September, I had done a lot of assessment and written test (each assessment and written test took quite a long time), and I didn’t have any offer (many interviews were in the process). My classmates would tell me from time to time that MEituan had passed three interviews, and I had sent my intention to Meituan, and I had received offers from Bytebaidu. On the surface it looks calm, but in fact it is not panic. At the time of my 0 offer, many people had already finished the autumn recruitment, so I can imagine my state of mind at this time. I started to run the school’s job fair, and fortunately, I got an offer from a foreign bank with my roommate. Since then, my mind has stabilized a lot, and then ended the struggle on the edge of autumn recruitment. Later, more and more enterprises began to interview, and Ju Factory passed three times in one breath, thinking that I got the offer, but who knows this is just the beginning. Slowly, the Internet also got a few offers, the mentality is more stable, interview and the interviewer can talk, but also by a decent factory director small kua. Many interviewers said that I had a clear mind and a comprehensive answer when answering questions. I think this really benefits from my own summary. Finally, I got a modest offer that I was satisfied with, and the salary was ok. Autumn recruitment is officially over.

Had sat in front of the computer all day long, eyes astringent waist sour, also had brushed several small video remorse unceasingly, had doubted oneself, also had three court but not into, love and not. This year I was so lucky, lucky to get the guidance of senior brothers and senior sisters and industry leaders.

To borrow the words of a legendary tycoon: Getting a PhD is not the end, it does not mean that you will be more successful than others in the future, but it means that you can do almost any technical thing in the world if you want to.

Before I read the doctor, I have deeply understood the meaning of this paragraph, which in the past, I can not quickly learn and start a technology in a short time. What graduate school taught me most was how to learn, lifelong learning.

To sum up: Many interviewers said that I had a solid foundation compared to others except for lack of internship experience.

Foundation: to pay attention to internal skills training, early preparation, code problems to infiltrate into the daily. They say interviews are useless, but many of the actual questions interviewers ask can be traced back to them. Try reading the source code, such as JUC, to feel the elegance and uniqueness of Li Big Brother.

Project & Internship

Companies generally need people who can reduce their training costs.

What are the highlights and difficulties of the project? Investigate the depth of knowledge and the pros and cons of the project.

Big companies generally look at the internship experience, what the internship did, the internship is very important.

Mathematical modeling contests, high-level papers.

A good resume is a knock on the door.

Keep humble, don’t forget to learn, the long march is always on the road.

I have uploaded six PDFS by myself, and the spread has exceeded 10W + on the Internet. After searching the public account of “Programmer Cxuan” on wechat, I reply to CXuan on the background and get all PDFS. These PDFS are as follows

Six PDF links