Gu Pan, 26 years old, is a third-year master's student in the Materials Department of a university in Nanjing. Three years ago, Gu Pan went from a junior high school to the school where she is now. She thought that her research life would be very different. Instead, she spent three years doing experiments, collecting data, and writing papers. Whenever her submitted paper was rejected, she couldn't help but think that if she had known better, she would have gone home to get married earlier and read a book by Lao Shizi.