The car drove smoothly on the straight asphalt road, and the trees on both sides quickly retreated. The sky was covered with purple robes, and the setting sun placed all things in the world with the beauty of gold foil. The continuous rice fields and the surging rice waves beside the road made people feel refreshed.

Du Lan leaned lazily against the car window, looking at the rice fields outside the window thinking.

"What are you thinking?" Dong Qiangqiang stared at the front without turning his eyes and clenched Du Lan's little hand. His tentacles were cold, "It should be almost the same in 15 minutes (to the train station)."

"Hey, people are more dead than others. I was worried that you would have a weird landlord, but today I saw the old lady's attitude towards you, which is really jealous." Du Lan said acid.

"Haha, I thought you wanted to bring the Luxembourg group." Dong Qiangqiang was amused by her.

"Didn't you see it? When she left just now, she hugged and said goodbye to me. She called me by my name and even called me right." Du Lan changed her position and leaned against the car window.

"The old lady is indeed very accurate in pronunciation of the pinyin." Dong Qiangqiang admitted, "But what is there to be jealous of this?"

"I have been in Germany for a long time and have never seen such a hospitable and enthusiastic German. You know that I have lived there for more than four years, but my landlord can't even call my name. I must admit that your landlord was shocked by me. You live in vain. All the good things have made your kid catch up. I am very unbalanced now."

"Imbalance? Then why don't you mention that your landlord asked you to install a net or use the kitchen to make Chinese food?" Dong Qiangqiang retorted, "You can't just see thieves eating meat, you have to see thieves being beaten." Dong Qiangqiang hit the steering wheel, the car drew a wonderful arc and drove into another highway.

"It seems that there is some reason for you to say this." Du Lan smiled and tore open a bag of potato chips, pulled out a piece from it, dipped it hard, and gave it to Dong Qiangqiang's mouth.

"Hey, I want to discuss something with you. You saw it just now. There is a forest outside the door, and the environment is elegant. I want to put the parrot on it, so it should belong to nature."

"I have no objection." Du Lan replied lazily, "I let it go before."

"What happened later?"

"It doesn't leave even after opening the window. Even though it's a bird, it can be distinguished by a full meal or a full meal." Du Lan smiled, "You can try it. If it doesn't leave, you have to continue to raise it well and cultivate a sense of responsibility by the way. You have to raise me in the future."

"Then I'm going to be poor." Dong Qiangqiang pointed at Sang and scolded Huaihuai.

"Are you talking about a parrot or me?" Du Lan put her face next to Dong Qiangqiang's face and asked with a fierce look.

Dong Qiangqiang smiled but said nothing.

"Hey, did you tell Lao Bai just now that I feel lost is true?" Du Lan retreated back to the window.

"Of course it's true." Dong Qiangqiang sighed lightly, "Just listening to Lao Bai's oral statement, I can feel the spirit of working hard to live each of them. Compared with them, I will feel a sense of anxiety of wasting my time. Although I also attend classes, reading books, and practicing questions every day, I don't seem to do anything. Sometimes I feel that I am not as accomplished as before when I was in preparatory courses."

"Have you tried hard before and regarded 'going to Germany to go to university' as the most important thing? As a result, after achieving the college, people lost their new goals and had no chance to see the end after graduation. I was stunned and didn't know what to do?"

"It's a bit like that." Dong Qiangqiang sometimes admires Du Lan's incisiveness.

"I understand your feeling. Most Chinese students who have just entered a German university have similar feelings, but this feeling varies from person to person. Some people will be long and some people will pass quickly."

"How did it go?" Dong Qiangqiang said curiously.

"To put it bluntly, it's very simple. You just have no results in class every day, and each of Lao Bai and the others are outputting results, so you will naturally be anxious." Du Lan said with great analysis, obviously no wonder, "In addition, you had a class in preparatory studies like in China, and you have a sense of collective belonging, but now you are fighting alone. I ask you, do you know all the people who listen to the class with you?"

"That's impossible. Some classes have hundreds of people." Dong Qiangqiang's words are irrational, and there are not so many students in the seminar.

"That's not considered foreigners. Do you recognize all the Chinese students who took the same class?" Du Lan asked, "There are not hundreds of Chinese people, right?"

Dong Qiangqiang smiled embarrassedly, Du Lan is indeed not easy to do.

"So..." Du Lan had expected this to be the result, and satisfactorily put the remaining potato chips in her mouth.

"I've finished speaking?" Dong Qiangqiang waited for a long time but didn't hear the following. He couldn't help asking, "'So what'?"

"So you need to find a way to avoid anxiety."

"Teacher Du, you are right, but you can't just talk about the concept. Do you have any good suggestions or measures?"

"I said yes, one suggestion is 50 euros. Should Mr. Dong be cash or swipe the card?" Du Lan smiled evilly.

"It's so dark! Let's talk about it first, and if it's really useful, pay." Dong Qiangqiang added again after saying that, "There is not enough cash, I ask for a blank note."

"It's okay to write white sticks, you can't escape anyway." Du Lan coughed his throat and said generously, "First of all, you should set some phased goals for yourself, but don't set long-term goals like "pass the final exam". If you can't hold on for a few days, you will be abandoned because of three days of fishing and two days of drying the net. What you need is the small goals that can be achieved through your own persistence, and the small goals that can be quantified, just like you read newspapers and morning readings for the old lady every day. Think about it, since you moved in, you have been studying for more than a month today. How do you think your speaking and listening skills are better than before?"

Dong Qiangqiang thought carefully: "I don't think the progress of oral expression is obvious, because it is mainly to read, but I communicate with Germans every day and are familiar with the normal speaking speed and pronunciation of Germans. It is different from watching TV and listening to radio. It is definitely helpful for listening and also to exercise courage. Of course, what I am talking about is not the kind of courage to catch wild boars."

"I mean this. Your small goals must be closely linked to your studies. For example, you plan to pass all the exams for all the junior courses this semester. How many reports do you need to complete in the seminar? Can you start writing now? If you start writing, according to your writing speed, when will you expect to complete all the reports? Can you complete them in advance? Let's talk about public law. Although you have printed handouts and old test papers, German professors will not give you the key points of the exam in the last class like domestic professors. How do you plan to prepare for the exam? You must have a specific plan for each exam you want to take at the end of the period, and then break the planning into quantifiable small goals. For each small goal you complete, you have to tell yourself that you have achieved a very big score, which is amazing."

"You mean to brag yourself to yourself? Put a gild on your face?" Dong Qiangqiang couldn't help but interrupt, "Isn't this self-brainwashing?"

"Self-encouragement and self-praise are not to show off and brag with others, but a psychological hint of self-affirmation." Du Lan corrected, "Who do you prefer if you have someone to encourage you every day and if you have someone to constantly attack you every day?"

"What's the best choice for this? People will like people who keep encouraging themselves."

"Studying is a kind of effort. As long as it is a dedication, people will hope to gain something. The gain is the test score. The German exam is usually held five months after the start of school. In the meantime, you have to constantly give yourself various affirmation and encouragement and persevere, so that you will not be depressed and confused because you seem to be diligent but have no results."

"Adhere to self-affirmation and self-encouragement..." Dong Qiangqiang murmured, "Are you studying psychology?"

"Of course. This is my summary of the 'Du Lan learning method'."

Cars drove from the quiet country road into the city, and there were more and more houses and pedestrians on both sides of the road.

"The seminar class has submitted two reports, one big and one small. The report has already taken shape, and it is estimated that it can be finished and finalized before the end of the year. The report is quite annoying. The Germans in our group met him for the first time in class, but then they disappeared. They did not reply to emails, did not answer calls, and did not participate in the after-class group discussion. The contents of the other three of us have already started writing, and we don't know what to do with his part."

"This situation is quite rare. You'd better communicate with the teacher in advance so as not to get into trouble later." Du Lan suggested.

"It is said that public law can pass the old questions by memorizing old questions, but it is not easy to get high scores. I have read the old test papers of public law. There are ten pages of A4, all of which are essay questions, giving four hours of answering questions. Fortunately, I saw it in advance. If I saw it for the first time during the exam, I would have passed the on-site. Alas, it was still the domestic exams in the past, fill in the blanks, choose, judge, and finally the essay questions, and they are all Chinese questions." Dong Qiangqiang felt a little sad after speaking. He never thought that one day he would miss the domestic exams extremely.

"This is what I will say next. According to my experience, the subject scores of the primary master's degree have no impact on the overall scores at the advanced stage and at the final graduation. Therefore, your focus should not be on the seminar and public law courses to get high scores, because they are both passed the sexual examinations. As long as you pass the examinations, it's good, just like the CET-4 tests in China. No one cares whether your English CET-4 scores are 100 points. You should spend more time preparing for the advanced stage courses. This is very utilitarian, but the German academic system is well known to everyone. Your time is very precious. If you fail the exam at some subjects at one time, you have to prepare for another semester. I just asked: How many small and big tests do you plan to take next spring semester? In order to pass these exams, what small goals do you plan to set?"

Dong Qiangqiang scratched his head: "At present, I feel that it should be fine to enter the advanced stage next semester, but I haven't thought about how many exams to take next semester. I still don't dare to think about the big exams, and I can't take any exams, and I haven't listened to the class. If you have a small exam, you have to wait until the next semester starts to know which subjects can be taken at the end of the exam."

Du Lan waved his hand: "What classes will the university provide each semester? You can generally check the history records at the university examination center. Through the historical records, it is inferred that it is almost the same. For example, the course schedule for the spring semester of 2003 is likely to be close to or even the same as the course schedule for the spring semester of 2001 and 2002. You don't have to wait until the next semester starts to find out."

"So that's how it is." Dong Qiangqiang suddenly realized, "You reminded me too timely! Then I'll go to the official website of the Examination Center. If not, I will go directly to the building of the Examination Center to ask tomorrow. Oh, no, why did you tell me such an important thing before school started?" Dong Qiangqiang was a little puzzled.

"You haven't felt it yourself. Even if I told you earlier, you won't take it seriously. It's better to say it's better now."

Du Lan's words made Dong Qiangqiang feel enlightened and benefited a lot. He was about to continue asking, but suddenly remembered something. After a few seconds of silence, he asked: "I think what you said is too important to freshmen, but why don't the students here popularize these knowledge that is useful to freshmen for their studies?"

"Either the student union is not good at level, not enough staff, and can't be busy, or they don't want to talk." Du Lan shrank hard into the back of the chair.

"It shouldn't be insufficient staff. They even gave safety lectures before school started." Dong Qiangqiang recalled.

"That's the second situation."

"Then why?" Dong Qiangqiang felt unbelievable, "The student union doesn't want everyone to graduate early?"

"Sometimes you think of human nature too beautiful." Du Lan suddenly threw out her sentence.

"I don't understand."

"What's hard to understand? What's the benefit of too many people graduating for students?"

This question stopped Dong Qiangqiang, and he had never thought about this question.

After turning a few turns, the car could already see the ceiling of the train station from afar.

Neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere in the car was a little subtle. At this moment, Dong Qiangqiang's cell phone suddenly rang.

"Help me pick it up." Dong Qiangqiang said to Du Lan.

"You have never saved this (mobile phone) number." Du Lan glanced at the mobile phone screen, turned on hands-free at the same time as it was connected, and said politely in German, "Hello. Who?"

"Oh, hello, are you Dong Qiangqiang?" A slightly immature male voice came from the phone, but he spoke standard Mandarin. "My name is Feng Chong, I am from the Chinese Department of Trier University. I would like to ask you a few questions."

"Wait a minute." Du Lan looked up at Dong Qiangqiang, and Dong Qiangqiang shook his head and whispered: "I don't know him, please ask him what's wrong."

"Hello, I'm not Dong Qiangqiang. He's busy now. Are you in trouble?" Du Lan recounted, "You can tell me and I'll tell him for you."

"Oh, aren't you him? Then I'll call him later." Feng Chong hung up the phone after saying that.

"Chinese Feng Chong? I don't know this person." Dong Qiangqiang drove his car into the parking lot outside the railway station. After parking, he walked side by side with Du Lan to the platform.

The wind on the platform was a little strong, Du Lan's windbreaker was blowing. She tightened her belt, and the windbreaker immediately faded away like a deflated ball.

"Don't be too confident about those textbooks you have read. Think that you have read them is really good at it." Du Lan reminded kindly.

"I know, I have to do more questions."

"Sometimes you can see your eyes and even do the questions correctly, but you will definitely forget them after a while. This is very normal. To understand the concept, the best way is not to keep practicing the questions repeatedly, but to practice the questions appropriately and explain the questions to others."

"Tell the question?"

"Yes, in addition to reading a book to summarize the key points and participating in each exercise class, it is best to participate in a study group. Everyone in the group will take the exam for the same course at the end of the semester. However, Chinese students generally do not make such study groups. They all learn from their own studies. They think it is a waste of time to participate in the group. However, German students recognize this form (study group). People take out the things they didn't understand when reading a book to discuss with each other. On the one hand, you tell others what you are right to you, and it is also a process of learning again, because if you don't read carefully, you will be easily asked, which forces you to read more seriously. On the other hand, it also exercises your social skills. After all, establishing connections with strangers is also a skill."

"I heard Duanmu also talk about it. I had asked Zheng Chunhua specifically before, but according to her, she didn't seem to have heard of such a group here. I also considered whether to build one by myself, but no one paid attention to me when I posted it in the forum."

"There are many study groups at the University of Technology of Munich, which are basically foreign students. However, it is useless to be anxious about this matter. It may be great if you get to know more classmates when you enter the advanced stage." Du Lan comforted.

The rumbling sound of the train galloping in the distance came from a distance. As the train approached, you could feel the strong tremor under your feet even when standing on the platform.

Looking at the direction of the train, Du Lan showed sadness: "The car is here."

Dong Qiangqiang knew that it was probably Christmas when we met again, so he hurriedly stepped forward and hugged Du Lan tightly, and at the same time gently kissed her forehead: "Thank you."

Dong Qiangqiang was both moved and grateful for Du Lan's sacrifice of his personal interests and came to see him for his tireless advice, but he did not notice Du Lan's abnormality today, and thought it was just an ordinary day.
Chapter completed!