The left-behind children of that year went to the United Nations agencies

After walking out of Jiangxi Mountain Village Primary School, he was admitted to Nanjing University, went to the United States and Italy for exchanges, and got a United Nations internship offer to come to the United Nations Office at Geneva... Recently, a girl with a strand of white hair on her forehead posted her school trajectory over the years. Many netizens were moved by this inspirational experience and praised her for being "so cool". The girl's name is Mo Min, she was a "left-behind child" when she was a child, and she was born with a strand of white hair on her forehead, which once made her feel a little inferior. In order to gain more recognition, she studied hard, was admitted to NTU in the "World War II" college entrance examination, and was admitted to graduate school, and got an offer to intern at the United Nations during her graduate studies. In an interview with the Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter, she said: "I was particularly proud to be praised by people from all over the world for being very smart during my internship at the United Nations! ”

Purple Cow News reporter Liu Liu

A Left-behind girl in a mountain village "World War II" college entrance examination After being admitted to NTU, she successfully completed graduate school

Mo Min was born in 1998 in Manjiang Township, Xiushui County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. Her parents work in Foshan, Guangdong province, all year round, and because of their meagre salaries and distance from home, they only return home once a year. "My parents only stayed for five or six days each time they came back, and they usually wrote letters or went to phone booths to make calls, which is how I contacted my parents most of my childhood," she said. Mo Min finished primary and junior high school in the township school, when there was only one class per grade, and in the end, only about <> people in the township took the middle school exam. She lived up to her family's expectations and was admitted to the county high school.

Mo Min recalled that after entering high school, he began to find that his studies were a little unable to keep up. "At that time, from the countryside to the county seat, I really couldn't keep up with my studies, but I worked very hard and often learned one o'clock in the morning, and then got up again at six in the morning to continue reading." For her, the most important turning point was the first college entrance examination, after the Chinese language test and the communication with classmates, she found that the requirement for composition was to write epistolary style, and she wrote an argumentative essay. She finished the math exam in tears, and finally because of a mistake in Chinese composition, she was only admitted to an ordinary university. "This university is actually quite good, and there are not many peers around me who can get in, but I am still not satisfied, I know that this is not my true level." "My parents didn't finish junior high school, they didn't have a concept of college, they couldn't guide me when I chosen, but I insisted on repeating it myself," Mo Min said. ”

When I was sleepy, I washed my face with cold water, and on the way to the cafeteria, I was also memorizing words ... During the repetition period, Mo Min redoubled his efforts to study. She told reporters that she often only spends 10 minutes eating a meal and learning a little more. The next year, she was successfully admitted to Nanjing University, and four years later, she successfully completed graduate school, "The college entrance examination left me with the feeling of sleeping hard at night." ”

B got an offer to the United Nations for an internship, and was praised as a Chinese student who was very smart

In her sophomore year, the AIESEC (International Federation of Economics and Business Students), a club that Mo Min joined, received a project to arrange 13 foreign students to teach in China. After the Spring Festival, she brought foreign young people to the county seat. In order to let them better experience life in China, Mo Min found childhood friends to provide boarding, which was the first time she met friends in cross-cultural exchanges. During college, Mo Min received scholarships through the school and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to go to the United States for exchange and Italy. After returning to China, she participated in the 2018 Summer Training Camp for International Organization Talents held by NTU, where she met a one-on-one partner, an employee of the United Nations Headquarters in New York, this friend often shared anecdotes and anecdotes in her work, Mo Min first touched the United Nations, began to have her own vision, and also wanted to exercise herself on the international stage and learn more. In 2020, Mo Min received an internship offer from UNICEF headquarters in New York and the Africa office. "I chose Africa instead of New York, and I had seen enough of the strange cities and wanted to experience the magic of the continent, but because of the pandemic, I didn't make the trip."

At the graduate level, Mo Min encountered another opportunity to go to the United Nations for an internship, when NTU had a cooperation with the World Meteorological Organization, and several NTU students went to the internship every year, so she actively applied and won this place after passing five levels and cutting six generals. "The World Meteorological Organization is an agency belonging to the United Nations, I interned here for a year, and then, from 2022 to now, I interned at the IPCC (United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)."

So, Mo Min went to the United Nations Office at Geneva and started a life of "part-work, half-online classes". In addition to working on audit recommendations and following progress in the Office of the Controller, she works in the Information Systems Branch, where she collects data, synthesizes charts and graphs, and provides early warning of the status of the website. The website used in Switzerland was very different from the data tools and Mo Min's previous contact, and some of the methods were even incompatible, which gave her a headache for a long time, but she began to get started after slowly becoming proficient. During the university, she constantly went abroad to exchange and gave Mo Min a wealth of experience, and she often had to deal with the leaders of some foreign related institutions in her work. "When I was a child, I would be a little in awe and timid about these 'big people', but when I grew up, I felt completely nothing. At the same time, in the process of dealing with these 'big people', I know that I represent the image of Chinese youth, so I will complete my work more carefully and rigorously to show the world the positive attitude of Chinese students towards work and life." Mo Min said, "During the internship, I was praised by people from all over the world for doing things efficiently, and the Chinese students were very smart, and I felt very proud." ”

When he went to Switzerland for an internship, Mo Min was studying in graduate school, and since he had already completed most of the courses, there was only one course in graduate school. "The teacher of that course was also more open-minded, saying that I could take this class online and finally take the exam, and the content of the exam was to write an essay." Therefore, she spent almost all of her internships at the United Nations during the two years of research 2 and 3, "I published journals in research 2, and I wrote papers in research 3, and I graduated successfully, and the balance between courses and internship work is quite good." ”

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Ridiculed for her natural gray hair, she learned to accept every part of her body

Recently, Mo Min posted her learning experience over the years on the Internet, which attracted the attention of many netizens, everyone was moved by her inspirational experience, some people commented on her: "It's so cool", and some people were attracted by the conspicuous strand of white hair on her forehead in her photo, asking: "Why did the little sister choose to dye such a hair color?" ”

Mo Min said that this strand of natural gray hair has often attracted her attention since she was a child, "Usually walking on the road, people who don't know will cast strange eyes." As a child, she was often ridiculed as a "bald head" by her ignorant peers. After entering junior high school, she also became a little rebellious, and her mother quit her job in the field to open a restaurant in order to discipline her.

Mo Min feels that his naturally strong personality may also be related to this strand of white hair. "Because I received a lot of strange eyes, I thought that if I got good grades, people might praise me, so I studied hard all the way and was admitted to NTU." After going to college, Mo Min kept cutting and dyeing her hair to try to cover up her natural gray hair, but frequent hair dyeing brought damage to her body, once bleeding from the scalp, and then she accepted her hair color and never dyed her hair again, "Now I, accept this hair, I think this is something I was born with, no matter how I have to accept it, and then the idea is to love every part of the body, so now I am calm and very loving." ”

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While interning, I am also looking for a job and preparing to return to China to start a career

Mo Min told reporters that he has been interning at the United Nations for a while, and he is also considering where to work in the future, "Last October, my father was seriously ill, I hurried back to China to visit him, I didn't expect that the disease progressed quickly, and he died not long after." Mo Min said that this incident brought her a big blow, so she did not participate in the domestic autumn move. After that, Mo Min interned abroad while looking for a job in China. Fortunately, she said, the internship was not tiring, but it still kept her very busy.

Now, she has found a job as a product manager for an Internet company and is ready to return to China to start a career. She also shared her experience of the United Nations internship on her social media to encourage more students. Looking back on her childhood, she felt that although she didn't spend much time with her parents, she didn't lack love, and her grandparents gave her a lot of warmth, "Looking back now, I just regret that I didn't accompany my father well when he was alive." ”

Mo Min believes that Nanjing University has given her a bigger platform and a broad vision, "From Manjiang Township to Nanjing to Geneva, the thickness of the world in my eyes is increasing, and I want to continue to see the bigger world." ”