Studying in the Steam Age

This is a story about studying in the 1970s and 1980s. Children of ordinary workers use their own sweat to blaze a new path in their destined destiny. Study, exam, sports, play, no rebirth, no pretense and slap in the face, no academic master. Lin Weidong is not the chosen one. When I was a child, I had two serious illnesses, and I had to go to the door of the Lord Yama twice. I was a "sick man" and was always the shortest one in the class. He was ignored by the teacher even if he sat in the first row in class. His studies are average, he is not good at sports, music and painting. He is introverted and doesn't like to talk. He is a transparent person who is regarded as "ordinary" by others. There is only one thing different about him: he has a stubborn personality and an unwillingness to admit defeat hidden in his bones. In my second year of junior high school, I fell in love with football and ran around the cinder track at six o'clock every day. From being out of breath when running 400 meters, to winning the 1,500-meter championship in the school sports meeting in the third grade of junior high school; ranking among the top ten in the long-distance running among middle schools in the city. From the shortest in the class to the tallest in the class. He loves disassembling and assembling things, reading all kinds of miscellaneous books, and all kinds of sports activities. As long as he can be exposed to them, he will find a way to learn them. He didn't get into high school and went to the most ordinary school for children through the back door. He went from being last in the class to being first in the science class. From everyone urging him to go to the sports academy to take a shortcut, to repeating English for a year, he finally became the first official college student in his family. If you also miss that era of roaring steam, if you were once an ordinary person who was not looked upon, then this story is written for you.