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A Chinese Gen Z girl in college who hates reading

Every day she either goes to class, games, or hits the bar

Do you know how “real” her day actually is

7:15 a.m.

At eighteen years old, Kitty is already up early

Even so

She is still the last one in the dorm to get out of bed

But there is nothing she can do about that

After all, she gamed past midnight again last night before sleeping

Just being able to get up is not bad

After washing up, she throws on some simple makeup

Kitty slings on her backpack and heads out to class

She is studying at an undergraduate college

She has just started her freshman year

An 8 a.m. class has basically become the norm

Because her dorm is really far from the teaching building

It is a twenty-minute walk

So students here usually

Ride e-scooters or bicycles to the classroom

When there are only four minutes left before class starts

Kitty has to quicken her pace

Or she will get marked late again

For someone like her

Sliding into class right at the bell is nothing unusual

Today the first class is an IT class

Mainly learning how to use office software

Like Word documents, Excel, and PPT

Who knows if she is actually learning it

But those nails sure look pretty

As a freshman

Kitty has twenty-six classes a week

On two of those days she has a full schedule

From 8 a.m. all the way to 6:30 p.m.

After the first class is over

She hurries straight to the next classroom

Because she has to rush to grab a good seat in the back row

That way she will not be forced to sit in front

And get called on by the teacher to answer questions

You have to admit

Her experience is really quite extensive

Most college classes are just the teacher reading from the book up front

While the students listen below

Whether they actually learn anything is another matter

Anyway, as long as you score sixty on the final, you pass

So they do not feel much pressure about grades

Every time she finishes her homework, Kitty starts scrolling videos

This is also how most college students behave in class

The only thing that can interrupt them

Is the pleasant sound of the dismissal bell

To save time

Kitty hops on her little e-scooter and heads straight for the cafeteria

Compared with eating out

It is still more convenient here

The prices are not too high either

Like this meal she is having today

With both meat and vegetables, it is only 11 yuan

After eating, Kitty rushes straight back to the dorm

If you ask why she is in such a hurry

Of course it is to play games

In college

It is not just the boys, girls are the same

Now every day, aside from class, Kitty just games and goes to bars

She does not even nap at noon

She squads up with her roommates and plays online games every single day

Her craziest day, she played for more than ten hours

She was having the time of her life

She did not go to class until 2:20 in the afternoon

The first class this afternoon is History of Foreign Film

For boring classes like this

kitty just goes straight to sleep

After all, she needs to save her energy so she has the strength to play online at night

Of course

in college

there are still some people who genuinely love studying

For the sake of the postgrad entrance exam or civil service exams

you can see them in every corner of the teaching buildings

their figures are everywhere

But even though they work very hard

they still have to face one reality

which is that last year

the national pass rate for the postgrad exam was under thirty percent

and the rate for civil service exams was even lower

In other words

out of every ten people here only two or three can make it

so the competition is extremely fierce

These are also the two extreme states of college students

one is working hard at studying

the other is working hard at playing

After class ends at 6:30 p.m.

kitty calls three friends and gets ready to go have fun

Since they have not eaten yet

they drive to the night market near campus

and have hotpot first before anything else

Almost every night she goes out

Besides gaming and other bad habits

kitty also likes to order cigarettes

but her addiction is not that strong

she only smokes one pack every two weeks

After eating and drinking their fill

the group will head to a bar

to have some wheat “juice”

As for her future

kitty does have a plan

which is to just find some random job after graduation

but she definitely will not get married or have kids

because what she wants is freedom

She keeps partying until almost midnight

only then does kitty return to the dorm

and she opens her computer again to start gaming

She does not go to sleep until two or three in the morning