A golden year, in which I kept a low profile, often asocial, I was transformed by an environment in which multiple, often conflicting forces were accelerating simultaneously.

• 说起北大的校园生活，不知他人最深和最初的印象是什么。而于我，肯定是勺园的汉语中心！我最爱到北大的勺园大楼，沉思或是与友人闲谈。