On the Road of Dilemma Since this semester begins, I have become nervous than before. I am in a dilemma. I feel I don’t have a lot of time to prepare entrance exams for graduate schools, but I have been thinking about whether or not I should attend the screening test. Everyone knows it needs to take efforts to prepare tremendous materials for the screening test. It spends a lot of time, which can be used to study more literary texts. What’s more, not every school provides the quota for the test. Even though you prepare the materials very well, you are not definitely qualified. Under this circumstance, you have to admit the fact: your efforts are probably in vain. However, after talking to a professor of English Literature, I feel my previous thought, I mean the efforts are in vain, is wrong. The professor tells me that when I collect information about the materials for the test, I also enhance the understanding of the materials I am preparing for. The screening test is a chance and its written exam can be used to test to what extent you have prepared for the graduate-school exam. In this way, I decide to give myself an opportunity. I will do my best to prepare for all the materials the screening test needs and embrace it without fear. Whether or not I am qualified at last, at least I can face myself. I am very grateful to my friends, who back me up, support me, endure my grumbling and hysteria and confirm my confidence in the road of keeping studying, especially studying the piles of literary texts! Oh! My friends, can all of you continue to be my “trash can” in the following year?