To you who feels uncertain about tomorrow
prolog

Part 1: A Hot and Fierce Challenge

High school entrance exams? What the heck!
School is hard
Survive, Steamed Bun
Steamed Bun Introduction (+ Tips!)
It was my first challenge, and I failed.
I don't want to get sick again
Finally, the final gate
An ordinary day
Things I learned thanks to 'Let's try it!'

Part 2: Surviving the Cold Reality

Congratulations on your admission!
I need to join a club!
Always a difficult test
Team Project from Hell (1)
Hell's Team Project (2)
A Journey Outside of Study
Those who leave and those who stay
My teachers
Still worried about my future career

Bonus Toon
Epilogue

“Stop hating me.
“This is enough.”
A story of everyone breaking free from self-deprecation and growing into something wonderful.

There are always questions that arise, whether you are attending school or graduating and entering society.
“Why is that person bullying me?” Anyone can be bullied for no reason.
It's a good thing you're free from bullying soon.
However, if you fail to do so, you may fall into self-deprecation, blaming yourself for the bullying.
How can we get out of this situation?

The author also suffered from unreasonable bullying.
The author also believes that he has his own reasons for being bullied, but soon realizes that it has only made things harder for him.
Thanks to a sentence I read in a novel, I stop hating myself and turn that hatred towards the person who tormented me.
And the author recorded his experiences to provide comfort to those suffering for the same reason.
I hope that people who are suffering because of someone will not blame themselves, and that they will overcome it more maturely.

"Gifted school? What the heck! But what is that?!"
Even if you don't know anything, try it once.
High school entrance exams and science high school life that you won't find anywhere else!

While some people try to live according to their goals, it is also common for people to live without a plan.
Especially during adolescence, there are many times when we act without a plan.
Jjinppang's goal from the beginning wasn't to go to a science high school.
It was an impromptu result created by a strange trio: my older sister who got into a gifted school, my mom who encouraged me to try for the entrance exam just in case, and Jjinbbang who accepted the challenge without much hesitation because he thought going to a gifted school would be 'cool'.

Of course, the process was by no means easy.
There are bound to be people better than me everywhere.
The entrance exam for gifted schools was a competition with such 'monsters', and in the midst of it all, Jjinppang was frustrated and ignored because of his grades.
Even after failing to get into a gifted school and going through many twists and turns to enter a science high school, the difficulties were just as severe.
Classes that are still hard to keep up with, grades that are falling behind, group members who don't participate in group projects and make me feel bad, and then there's that kid who started going to the same academy as me and went on to school with me and started tormenting me.
Will Jjinbbang be able to survive here?

In 『Yun Jjinppang's Survival Diary』, Jjinppang reflects on himself in the difficult path that opens up for him, and grows while thinking about what he likes, what he dislikes, what he worries about, and what he needs.
As the saying goes, "After hardship comes happiness." Will happiness come to Jjinppang, who has graduated from a science high school? We prepare for university admission during our school years, and we prepare for employment during our college years.
After getting a job, you worry about the unknown future and prepare for retirement.
While it's nice to see happiness after hardship, isn't it more important to grow through hardship and live better? The book suggests focusing on finding your own path, one that supports you during your struggles rather than the one afterward, allowing you to grow in the present and prepare for the future.

Rather than sacrificing the present for the future
I hope you live happily from now on

The saying, "It hurts because it's youth," once became popular thanks to a book of the same name that was a bestseller.
The title may have been intended to offer comfort to young people whose futures are uncertain due to the intensifying competition for qualifications. But isn't it true that everyone wants to run away when they're sick? The author himself describes his school days as a time when "I wanted to run away because I was sick."
The author was frustrated by seeing people who were much better at studying than him during middle and high school, and realized that he had no talent for research, so he worried about his future career.
I was already having a hard time with school and career issues, but now that I was being bullied by my friends, the pain was doubled and I wanted to run away.

But at the same time, the author enjoys the benefits of youth, saying, "Isn't youth a good thing in that you can bump into things and consume yourself to your heart's content?"
For the author, youth was not a time of pain, despair, and anxiety that required comfort, but rather a time to discover one's aptitude through challenges without burden, even if one failed.
In this way, the author transformed 'impulsive behavior' into 'a challenge that allows for growth', and is now majoring in industrial design, reviving the art career that was his dream in middle school, leaving behind the life sciences he had studied throughout high school.

It's okay to not feel uncomfortable in the present just because your future dreams and what you're doing now are different.
The author, who loved drawing but went on to a science high school and then majored in industrial design at a university where he majored in life sciences, tells the "sick youth" through the book that what he does can complete his future path.