Chapter 242 – Chapter 242. It’s Far Away, but It Seems Like It’s Been a While
After checking the mock test scores, I went to the information desk on the second floor of a large academy to register for scholarship students, and counseling was in full swing here and there.
‘There are a lot of people.’
It was mainly people who came to listen to the final lecture.
The two-month final class in February and March, in preparation for the end of March when there is an exam, is popular.
There would be a lot of people because of it.
Whether it’s online or offline, whether it’s about the system of academy classes, about the curriculum of lectures such as comprehensive classes, or about instructors…
At the desk on the 2nd floor, they generally give good advice on most things.
So, during peak season, the desk on the second floor is quite busy as a large number of people wanting information gather.
I waited in line for a while and waited for my turn.
The desk on the second floor of a large academy has counselors all the time, and there are not just one or two counselors, so the waiting time for counseling is not long.
Because it is divided into several lines, the queue is almost 0, but all of them were consulting, so there was no place right away and I had to stand for a while.
It didn’t seem like it would take that long, so I stood and waited for the person in front of me.
Looking at the person in front of me, the man receiving counseling appeared to be in his late twenties, wearing a black jacket and plain jeans.
A woman in her 50s was sitting next to him, and she was receiving counseling together.
It was probably a hat.
‘Am I new here?’
If you’ve been to an academy for a while, you don’t have to come with your parents to get counseling, so I thought it was the first time a man in his late 20s was here for counseling in front of me.
It seemed that he would probably set up a house and then a private academy.
I honestly think I would stop it if I said that I would go to a high school after I got married and my son took the civil service exam.
There are many hardworking people in this goshichon.
But there is one thing I can be very sure of.
That is, there are more people who are connected to PC rooms and games at home or go to bars every day than people who are in private academies and reading rooms in high school towns.
There are people who really come to study, but there are quite a lot of cases where they come out of their homes as a city of refuge and play as if they are being pushed back day by day by time.
There are people who really work hard, but I don’t think it’s a bit much for me to study at a high school because of such a probability problem.
Looking at a person who was receiving counseling right in front of me, looking like he had just come up, I thought that the possibility of him also falling into games and alcohol would be higher in terms of probability.
It’s the same with my current surroundings.
Hochang and Sangwon hyung show a lot of enthusiasm for games, but they don’t show that much enthusiasm for studying.
And I’ve seen a lot of people like that.
At home, there was no way to check whether they were playing games or studying, but there were many cases where they were sending money indefinitely.
Seeing the mother and daughter who had come for counseling, I naturally recalled the memory of my first visit to the Goshichon.
‘It reminds me of my first visit to Goshichon.’
It must have been around the time he had just entered Gosiwon.
At that time, I had no idea which house was the right one, so I tried living by moving from place to place.
This is a true story that I experienced at that time, especially when I was living in a gosiwon.
There was a brother next door.
He watched entertainment programs on the computer all day.
Whether I was studying at home, self-studying at an academy, or working part-time, the hyung in the next room didn’t leave the house at all times, only watching entertainment programs in his room.
With earphones on, I couldn’t directly tell what he was seeing.
However, I could tell from various circumstances that he watched entertainment programs all day every day.
The gosiwon I went to at that time had terrible soundproofing, and I could tell he was hitting the keyboard and mouse once in a while.
But he didn’t just grind it like he was playing a game, he pressed it every once in a while.
Laughter could be heard intermittently in the next room, but it was quite frequent.
It’s not just an entertainment program, it was like watching a comical entertainment program all day long.
It is unacceptable to laugh like that all day while watching online lectures.
He laughed like that all day and stayed out of the room and worked on the computer, but he was always confident whenever a phone call came from home.
When I received a phone call from someone who seemed to be my father, I would start off by getting angry and say, “I’ve been studying for a while, why are you doing this?”
So even though he doesn’t talk on the phone laughing while watching entertainment in his room, when I first came to his goshichon and wanted to see what it was like, I called and hit the wall.
I didn’t know what it was at the time, so I heard a bang and wondered what was going on.
And some time after that, when I left the room, I met him and talked about this and that.
I still don’t think he’s a bad person.
I believe the biggest reason is that the social system cannot accommodate all the saturated population, resulting in a large number of unemployed people, and people who lose their will in it.
So, I don’t think it’s the individual’s fault, but society pushed him out.
However, it was not good for me to have the so-called ‘Naero Nambul’ attitude, in which it was just that I harmed others, and that I was offended when others tried to do the same to me.
Anyway, since it is the fault of the society rather than the individual, I decided to focus more on my studies and my development rather than fighting whenever such people appear.
So what I chose was to work part-time and combine the existing money to pay for the deposit, monthly rent, and living expenses, and I came into a studio with decent soundproofing.
‘It’s far away.’
It seemed like those days had been so long ago, and it also seemed like it hadn’t been that long.
I was also afraid of becoming like that, so I purposely came to the goshichon and worked part-time job to earn money for 6 months and spend it for 6 months.
If spending more than 1,000,000 won a month at home becomes a habit and becomes more lazy, it seemed that I could end up in a situation where I couldn’t control myself.
Not for my parents, but for myself. At the high school, I thought it would be better for me to earn money myself.
In that respect, there were similarities between me and Yoon-kyung.
It was because Yun-gyeong and I were living here with the money that each of us had earned by working part-time jobs.
‘Looks like it’s done?’
As I thought about that, the counseling of the group in front of me was over.
First, the mother and child who received counseling finished the consultation and walked from the desk to another place.
And among them, I sat down in the seat where the man got up, and only then did I talk to the counselor.
“I was selected as a scholarship student in the last mock exam, so I’d like to ask for some guidance.”
“Oh, is that so?”
The man I consulted with seemed to be in his early to mid-thirties.
He got up from his seat and spoke to me.
“Did you bring your ID?”
“Yes.”
I immediately took my wallet out of his coat and handed him my ID.
Then he confirmed and spoke to me.
“Ah~, you’re in 3rd place, then please register for an account to receive the scholarship first at the reception desk on the right, and the final lecture will be issued there. Then, if you come back here, we will attach a teaching assistant and guide you to the scholarship student’s individual seat. .”
“Yes.”
The counselor was very good at answering my questions.
I like those looks.
There are countless fields of work in this world.
Regardless of the field, I thought that it looked really good to work with professionalism or a kind of craftsmanship in one’s field.
I listened to his explanation and answered.
“All right.”
What happened after that was handled quickly.
500,000 won for the mock exam scholarship was deposited into my bank account as soon as I informed them of my bank account.
I don’t know if it’s because I registered a little late, but it was done right away anyway.
And through my ID, I confirmed that the 2-month final lecture ticket was also opened.
In the case of lecture tickets, since I wouldn’t take them anyway, I thought I could just sell them.
And in the case of individual seats for scholarship students, one assistant would come out from behind the counseling room and pick them up.
The male assistant who guided me to the scholarship student’s private seat seemed to be about the same age as me.
Presumably, he seemed to be working as an assistant while preparing for the civil service exam.
“Would you like to come this way?”
“Ah yes.”
The teaching assistant moved quickly.
I followed him up the stairs.
The place where I came out of the counseling room desk on the 2nd floor and went up the stairs was on the 5th floor.
On the 3rd and 4th floors of this large academy, there are quite a few large, medium or small classrooms.
Also, the 5th and 6th floors are sometimes used as lecture rooms, and among them, there are professor research rooms and scholarship student reading rooms.
“You can go in here. When you go in… Is there a rank? Each seat has a numbered sticker on the top left of the partition. You can go to the number of the corresponding rank and sit down.”
When we arrived at the lecture hall on the 5th floor, which was used as a dedicated reading room with individual seats for scholarship students, he spoke.
According to it, I should have gone to seat number three and sat down.
At his explanation, I bowed my head slightly and greeted him.
“Thank you.”
“Haha, yes, then.”
The assistant returned to his quick pace again, as if he was busy with work.
His steps, going down the stairs to the second floor, looked very busy.
I thought for a while, looking at his back before entering the classroom for scholarship students.
‘It’s a combination of work and study…’
I thought it was difficult to work and study at the same time, as well as studying and drinking.
That’s why I worked for 6 months, earned enough money, drank and played, and now I’m concentrating on studying for the rest of the time.
However, in the case of the teaching assistant who had just been busy, he seems to be busy with work and study at the same time.
In many cases, it would have been the case in normal cases, as there were many cases where ordinary teaching assistants helped with their work, taking classes at academies for free, and studying.
There is no right answer as to which path is right, and I thought that I would just go down the path with a strategy that I think is more appropriate.
Then, I opened the door to the classroom that was used as a self-study room for scholarship students.
-Kikkik…
He quietly opened the door and entered.
The first feeling I felt after entering the self-study room was that the facilities were better than I thought.
Certainly, it seemed that they paid more attention to scholarship students.
Large all-in-one desks that could not be found in other classrooms, likely found in a high-class reading room, were placed at each seat.
Also, the chairs were of a high quality, incomparable to those in a regular classroom.
‘It’s good.’
I came in and got my number.
‘Ah, the order…’
Looking for a seat, I went further into the lecture hall of the scholarship student’s self-study room.
It seemed that they would be placed inside from the top ranks.
All the people gathered here are in the top ranks anyway, so the ranking may not be very meaningful.
Although the size of the classroom itself is not that large, it was spacious and comfortable enough for 10 people to study.
There were also additional, sparsely empty desks other than those numbered 1-10, where it seemed like you could put books on them.
I muffled my footsteps and found my seat.
On the way, some of the people who had come and sat before me studied and glanced at me.
I don’t know if all of the top 10 female students were female except for me, but when I came to the study room, all six or seven of them were female.
I came in between the large desks and came to my seat number three to unpack.
-Sureuk…