This article focuses on the college growth trajectory of Yi Xin, a freshman in Grade 17, and completely records what she saw, thought and felt after entering a well-known university. The opening chapter tells about the chance of Yixin being admitted unexpectedly. Compared with the situation in her past life where she was mostly arranged by her family, she gave birth to the expectation of controlling her own life. After the school started, she went to campus alone, visited the campus scenery, met new classmates, and went through two weeks of military training. She sharpened her character in the difficult collective life and gained the warmth of her classmates. After school, Yi Xin tried to sign up for dance and psychology clubs. After many failed interviews, she calmed down from impatience and frustration, summed up her experience, and successfully passed the assessment after making full preparations. In her daily life, she faces various life problems such as course planning, time management, and consumption concepts. She constantly reviews and adjusts herself. She goes shopping in her spare time to buy clothes, insists on long-term exercise, and participates in campus cultural performance rehearsals, and polishes music programs with local humanistic characteristics with her partners. The full text uses a delicate first-person perspective to record the whole process of freshmen adapting to campus, facing setbacks, and constantly introspecting and transforming, hiding the young people's thinking about themselves, life and future.
Purpose: Using the college life experience of freshman Yi Xin as a carrier, it shows the confusion, frustration and introspection of young people when they first enter a new environment, and conveys that life is full of experiences. Only by accepting gains and losses, actively adjusting, and continuing to review can one complete self-growth in the trials of life; at the same time, it expresses that there is no smooth road to growth, and setbacks, solitude, and attempts are the only way to improve oneself. Young people should learn to reconcile with their imperfect selves, settle down on the ground, and clarify the direction forward through changes one after another.