Looking to the years ahead with a heart full of hope

Yu-Yang Chenxi, 18, high school graduate in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

Now that the Asian koel's cry no longer serves as the morning alarm urging me to the classroom, and drowsiness is no longer my daily constant, I finally realize that high school life is fading into the distance, while university life draws near.

As a famously significant life experience, university holds immense importance in people's minds, and in mine too. After all, under the intense pressure of the heavy academic load in senior year, my heart often turned into a bird yearning for freedom, peering toward the future through thickets of thorns.