(1)

A few days ago, in the shower room

I heard the bros next to me discussing games again

College guys, you know — “damn, Guan Yu didn’t even get killed”

“What the f*** is Zeus building, BKB?”

A few days before that, the household registration office in the old admin building

In front of the quiet window only a senior was consulting about transferring his residency

This left me, who was just asking what to do about losing my ID card, a bit dazed

One day we’ll all end up at the household registration office too.

(2)

My dad said, most people who come to SJTU have a grudge

They missed Beijing by just a hair.

I just know that many people don’t like SJTU at first

Some even hate that SJTU cuts off the internet at night

But just like the Little Prince said

What makes the desert beautiful is the oasis it hides somewhere.

The little details of SJTU gradually make the freshmen fall in love with it

The aunt who sells fried rice at the second cafeteria always slips you a little something extra

You can even buy takeout directly from the HL delivery guy

SJTU cats are particularly affectionate toward girls

On some day in some month the osmanthus suddenly all bloomed as if by plan.

Cursing “damn the shower room is so f***ing far” while panting along with your roommate, basin in hand, to take a shower

Saying “damn calculus is so f***ing annoying” then bursting out laughing at one genuine remark from the professor

Thinking “damn whoever you are, please go out with me” and then feeling that being single at SJTU isn’t really that bad

After all, in the future it’ll be “if you marry, marry an SJTU man”, so what’s there to fear.

(3)

There used to be two popular sayings:

One was “on the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”

The other was “your hometown is the place where you’ve said a thousand things wrong with it but you won’t allow anyone else to say one thing wrong with it”

The first one has nothing to do with this article, just to illustrate how long ago “long ago” was.

A day at SJTU includes, besides academics and life, thousands of “damn it"s and “holy f***“s.

But this school that makes you say “damn it” every day, after you leave

Will become your Mother School.

Years later, saying “damn, back in those days every May SJTU was full of the smell of nightshade flowers”

But the feeling behind “damn” has become the feeling of missing Mother

(4)

Only those with difficulty breathing understand what breathing means

Before I’ve fallen to the point where I can only reminisce about the old days

I still have to say, damn it, SJTU

(Fin)