A big anniversary and it is quiet. Here is my contribution to the celebration.

On the Anniversary of a "Flagship" University for Democracy and Science in the Most Populous Country

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小绵羊呀真可爱！
会吃奶来会撒娇，
没有脾气不乱吠，
真是可爱的小可爱
This is a description of today’s Peking University or Beida, and it hurt me to cite it like that.

I want to say as a Beida aluminum, that what the most important thing you come out of Beida is not the name of Beida that can be forever associated with your name, not the knowledge you worked so hard to grasp, not what your teachers tried to put into your mind, it is the spirit of freedom and courage. If you understand the meaning of freedom, and by excising your own you help with freedom of all people of this country and the whole world. Freedom means your right to think out of your mind, not your bind or behind; your tendency to criticize, not praise; your ability to show grace under fire, not lose your dignity and humanity when under pressure; and bravery to speak your mind, not somebody else’s. Do this, you have a chance to fulfill your life not with a bigger salary of a higher ranking title, but your true satisfactory of being a good and decent person and an upright character that yield to nobody but truth and pursue of truth. At the end of your life, you will know it has meant something to those who you love and those who love you and all of your fellow human beings.


Jiwu Wang, Ph.D.
Beida 89 Biochemistry
Written at the anniversary of my beloved college.