In the middle of the miniature come a crowd of people who represent the graduated students confronted with a dazzling array of painful choices in a major life cross-road, ranging from hunting for a job to creating a startup, to sitting for a standardized postgraduate entrance examination, to pursing a degree overseas, simply because their final decisions could decide their not-too-distant future, and even their distant future. Consequently, they have to make a deep and sophisticated knowledge of the merits as well as demerits of the choices they are making and summon up their courage to bear it.
Apparently, the miniaturist intends to demonstrate the truth that the graduated students, nowadays, are facing huge stresses to make the key decisions and a fitting choice is of intensely great importance to one’s future career and life success. It is a fact universally acknowledged that the reform and opening up of China have brought a host of approaches to all of us, particularly young adults in the Ivory Tower, but, uncontestably, all sorts of major challenges also found their way into every graduate’s life. And now, a mountain of pressure nearly overburdens a graduate’s fragile shoulder amid the enlarging enrollment of higher education. In consequence, it is strictly necessary to balance a variety of personal considerations and to weigh advantages and disadvantages for a crucial choice.
From my perspective, sitting for the postgraduate entrance examination seems a better choice considering the cut-throat competition in the job market, the prohibitively expensive cost of study as an international student overseas, and huge difficulties in starting a business. However, all paths lead to a certain level of success, which is built on a premise that painstaking efforts are poured into the choice made. As a result, what’s needed is just to struggle desperately with a clear aim to turn the decision into a turning point towards a much higher step on the career, intellectual, economic or social ladder.