Chapter 82

"Hurry up, everyone! There's only one month left until the college entrance exam!" "You must keep your momentum up. Everything depends on this final push!" Lin Zhihai spoke in a grave tone. As a professor, he understood exactly how vital the college entrance exam was for these students. It was common knowledge that education was a difficult path to social mobility; some even argued that schooling only helped one recognize their social class more clearly. But in all fairness, the college entrance exam remained a remarkably fair channel. On this road, there were no shortcuts—only sweat. For students of this era, the positive returns of an education were still substantial. College graduates were in high demand, often guaranteed a job the moment they stepped out of the campus gates—a far cry from the present day, where college graduates are as common as hair on an ox and society can no longer absorb them all. Regardless, whether in the Elite Class or the regular classes, everyone felt both nervous and expectant.