Tsinghua University's "Introduction to Slacking" course has started! More than 1,000 students are slacking online, and the course is taught by a freshman

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What? Tsinghua University actually opened a course on slacking off ?

I was slacking off when I suddenly sat up from my chair. Isn't this open for me?

Finally, there are classes I can take at Tsinghua University!

This course, called "Introduction to Slacking," doesn't actually have a final exam, judging by the PPT.

The core purpose of the course is to let everyone gain some tips on slacking off and improve their learning efficiency.

As soon as the course "Introduction to Slacking" was launched in Tsinghua's YuKeTang, the number of people in the course WeChat group almost immediately reached 500, and the "classroom atmosphere" was also very active.

△ Image source: Zhihu @ALLover

Due to the large number of applicants, the course teacher had to increase the class capacity from 500 to 2,000, and now the number has reached more than 1,000...

What is going on?

Courses for "slacking off"

The teacher of the course "Introduction to Slacking" "Teacher Gao" is actually a freshman at Tsinghua University.

Teacher Gao discovered that Tsinghua University’s online course platform “Hetang Yuketang” has a new feature after the update: everyone can open a course .

Then an idea occurred to him: Why not offer a course on "slacking off"?

Mo Yu, from the idiom "fishing in troubled waters", refers to being lazy during work/class time, specifically doing things that are not related to work/study during work/class time.

So, what are we going to learn in this course and how will it be assessed?

Teacher Gao's statement: This course has no final exam , no credits , and no impact on transcripts .

According to the course description, Teacher Gao believes that compared to a competitive learning atmosphere, this course aims to create a healthy learning environment where everyone can solve problems together.

From the course purpose, we can explore the tricks together, and teachers and students can also improve their learning efficiency together (sharing materials) .

As for the major and weekly assignments, they are also Tips for slacking off and Study materials , and they are practiced in slacking off.

Of course, even if you do your homework seriously in the slacking class, you can only get 0% of the total score .

Doesn't it mean that the less you slack off, the worse your grades will be? (dog head)

Let’s take a look at the style of the course:

The content of the course is to relax your body and mind and take a few minutes to feel relaxed. For example, today's course assignment is to share with everyone the spring scenery you think is beautiful .

Originally, this was just a slacking class created while slacking off, but it turned out to be "unexpectedly" popular. The number of people in the WeChat group suddenly soared from a dozen to 500, and the number of people who signed up reached more than a thousand.

But one thing needs to be clarified, this course "Introduction to Slacking" is only available on the YuKeTang platform and has not been included in Tsinghua's official course selection system.

Because it's a roll, so I have to fish

It was originally a joke by a freshman at Tsinghua University, but it unexpectedly became a hit.

It became the most popular topic on Zhihu, with 3 times more attention than the second place:

It became so popular that people inside and outside the school were clamoring to take this course:

Tsinghua alumnus @白杨Alex said, I want to be elected but I can’t be elected~

I thought it was a joke when I saw it on WeChat Moments in the afternoon, but when I logged in at night, it was already over 500. As expected, I couldn’t even catch up with them…

On Zhihu, Tsinghua students from all majors and grades revealed that they have registered for this course.

Vehicle engineering, precision instruments, environment, public management... freshmen, doctoral students, etc. The number of registered applicants has now exceeded 1,000.

Why is it so popular? Why has slacking off become a necessity for Tsinghua students?

The teaching assistant of this course, Zhihu user @ALLover, expressed his opinion.

The reason why "Introduction to Slacking" is so popular in Tsinghua University is because everyone is disgusted with the current situation of internal circulation and yearns for "slacking" .

He understands involution as using unnecessary effort and input to obtain a higher output. For example, a 3,000-word paper must be written in 30,000 words, and the remaining 20,000 words are of low quality and are just for padding.

In this kind of atmosphere, everyone is very tired. When a slacking class appears, even though they know it is not real and even though they know it is impossible to slack off, most students still join in with a mentality of yearning for a paradise on earth.

Another Zhihu user @Pretty Hurt believes that the course "Introduction to Slacking" is essentially the same as the "Huaqing University Special Scholarship" held during the special award selection last year, which is a grand performance art. It is a rebellion of students against excessive pressure and a countermeasure against peer pressure.

He said bluntly:

As a university that gathers the top students in China, the involutionary trend is naturally quite prevalent in Tsinghua. However, few people take the initiative to involution. Why do we choose to slack off? On the one hand, it is a rebellion under excessive pressure, and on the other hand, it is also a helplessness towards this overall trend.

Last September, a photo of a Tsinghua student running a program on his computer while riding a bicycle caused quite a stir:

Now, the suspected "Xuetang Road Driving God" has also appeared under the "Moyuxue" post:

It seems that the car god is also tired...

The teacher who taught the course, Mr. Gao, mentioned that the university curriculum was lagging behind the times and the needs of students. He said that some people chose not to go to class because it delayed their studies.

Therefore, when he opened this course, in addition to making everyone smile, he also wanted to use this method to encourage everyone to explore new ways of knowledge dissemination and communication.

Why is Tsinghua YuKeTang so open?

The reason why this course "Introduction to Slacking" was established has to do with Tsinghua University's online course platform: YuKeTang .

YuKeTang is an online course platform jointly launched by Tsinghua University and XuetangX , which is a MOOC platform launched by Tsinghua University in 2013.

At present, the platform has courses from famous universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Beijing Normal University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

At the beginning, YuKeTang did not support “everyone can open a class”, and it was only launched after a certain update.

How do Tsinghua students evaluate this new feature?

Zhihu user @Mr.南有 said that he has not yet found any classmates who actually share their skills and knowledge through this function.

But this function does have some practical aspects. For example, each department and each class will hold some group activities from time to time, and each time for those who are unable to attend, the organizer can use this method to start class presentations and allow students who are not present to come in and watch remotely, or watch afterwards.

But it is really fresh and fun to teach a course by yourself. For example, he taught a PUBG course called "Peace Elite: Theory and Practice of War Skills" last year , but only 11 people signed up for it.

So he sighed:

Playing PUBG can’t save Tsinghua people! Slacking off can!

But here comes the problem:

If you fail in the Introduction to Slacking Course, you will be rolling with the students in other courses; if you slack off in this course, you will be rolling with the students in this course.

This paradox is undoubtedly the "duality of touching the test paper" of Tsinghua students!

Authorized answer:
@ALLover:https://www.zhihu.com/question/448630016/answer/1772870705
@Pretty hurt:https://www.zhihu.com/question/448630016/answer/1773915529
@白杨Alex:https://www.zhihu.com/question/448630016/answer/1773356459
@Mr.南有:https://www.zhihu.com/question/448630016/answer/1774061697

Reference link:
https://www.zhihu.com/question/448630016