To Scholars

致学者们 回归表格里的星星，真的比夜空中的群星更璀璨吗？ 借用Dota里白虎的那句台词：你在抬头看星星吗？ 当你最讨厌的那些研究工作几分钟就能搞定，当你的学生向“爱兄”（AI）求教的次数多过你的Office Hours——在这项伟大的教育事业中，“我们”的意义究竟是什么？ 我想了很久很久。 但答案其实就藏在那本叫做《大学》的古籍里。 难道这不是回归到先做学生、后做老师的本来面貌吗？ 我热爱大学，我珍视它们。 就像咕噜（Gollum）珍爱他的“魔戒”一样。 但现在是时候改革了，彻彻底底的改革。 这并不痛苦，绝不会。 它只是思维方式的转变，就像心理学中的认知行为疗法（CBT）。 什么都不需要改变，但一切都可以改变。 你知道《怦然心动》（Flipped）那本书和电影吧？ 就是那样。它可以是迅速的，却又无比美丽；充满浪漫，又无比真诚。 做你自己，从老师到学生，做你自己。 寻找自我，表达自我——就像李小龙多年前教导我们的那样。 这不是什么新鲜事，我也没什么特别的。 你们拥有这颗星球上最聪明的头脑。你们比我更清楚，这是不可避免的。那为什么还要等呢？ 我们可以一起做到，我们自身也会变得更强大、更优秀、更轻松。 减少精疲力尽，减少应付修改和重新提交（R&R）的头痛，也不必再死磕那些你明明知道没几个人会去看的冗长附录表格。 它们固然重要。但在那之外，难道没有更巨大、更值得探索的森林吗？ 年轻人们在等待，等待着指引，等待着最聪明的人同时也成为最勇敢的人。等待着格兰芬多、拉文克劳、赫奇帕奇和斯莱特林合而为一。 因为那才是真正的大学，真正的霍格沃茨。 难道你们不渴望，给你的学生们寄出这样一封录取通知书吗？

To Scholars Are the stars in your regression tables truly brighter than the stars in the night sky? To borrow a line from Mirana: Are you looking up at the stars? When the parts of research you hate the most can be done in minutes, and when your students consult their AI more than they come to your office hours—what is the "us" in this great educational endeavor? I thought about this for a long, long time. The answer is found in the ancient texts of The Great Learning. Isn’t it simply about returning to the original form of being a student first, and then a teacher? I love universities; I cherish them the way Gollum loves his "Precious." But this is the time for reform—absolute reform. And it doesn’t have to be painful. No, not at all. It is simply a shift in perspective, much like CBT in psychology. Nothing needs to be changed physically, yet everything can change fundamentally. You know the book and movie Flipped, right? Just like that. It can be swift, yet beautiful. Romantic, yet genuine. Be yourself. From teacher to student, be yourself. Seek yourself, express yourself—just as Bruce Lee taught us many years ago. This is nothing new, and I am no one special. You possess the most intelligent minds on this planet. You know far better than I do that this is inevitable. So why wait? We can do this together, and we will grow stronger, better, and lighter. There will be less burnout, fewer headaches dealing with tedious revisions and resubmissions, and less obsessing over long appendix tables that you know very few people will actually read. They are important, for sure. But aren’t there gigantic forests out there far more worth exploring? The youth are waiting. They are waiting for guidance. They are waiting for the brightest people to also be the bravest people. They are waiting for a combination of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin coming together as one. Because that is the true university. That is the true Hogwarts. Don’t you yearn to send an offer letter of that kind to your students?