这是一群刚刚离开家庭的年轻人在大学第一年的故事。在中国，由于高考压力等方面的原因，真正的青年时期往往从大学时代开始。影片记录了清华大学新闻与传播学院2006级本科生们进入大学学习第一年的经历，研究了学校仪式和社会生活对青年的规训和改变，以及在这种情况下他们所发展出的自己的思想与文化，并从他们的视角记录，中国当代青年中的流行文化。 This is the story of a group of young people, for the first time leaving home, in their first year of college. In China, due to pressures of the National College Entrance Examination, the enjoyable time of youth often begins from campus life. This film tracks a group of young Chinese people and shows their experiences during their first year in Tsinghua university. It studies how school rituals and social life changes and shapes them, and their own ideas and culture they develop in this situation. It also shows, from their point of view, the popular culture amongst young Chinese people nowadays. Tsinghua University is one of the best universities in China, and for a long period her aim is to foster many political, economic and academic elites.