He gave up college in China, lost his scholarship in the US. Sells snacks, earns 80 € /day and is happy

The academic pressure led a young Chinese, with a poor family, to abandon an elite Chinese university. Donald Trump’s cuts in universities financing canceled the US doctoral scholarship. He is happy to sell Puré de Potato in a street board next to his alma mater.

The young Fei Yu24, who recently gave up on his master’s degree at the prestigious University of Fudan in Shanghai to set up a food bank In the street, he recently captured the attention of social networks in China.

According to, before making a little conventional decision, Fei was on his way to becoming an elite student.

Despite having origins in a poor family in the province of Sichuan, in southwest China, Fei studied hard To enter the University of Sichuan, an elite institution in China. In the summer of 2022, licensed in public health and was admitted to the Graduate School of the University of Fudan.

Fei did not even have to submit to the admission testbecause your notes were classified first in your year during your five years of graduation.

However, in early 2023, after attending just one semester at Fudan University, Fei abandoned studies.

The young man explains that he made the decision because he could not continue his studies due to a depression, insomnias and stomach problems caused by pressure and abuse by your advisor. Fei refused to give details about his experience or reveal his teacher’s name.

After an inactive year, Fei applied for study abroadin projects of PhD in Preventive Medicine in several public universities in the United States – and, earlier this year, was admitted with a bag at an American university.

But the recent UNIVERSITY FINANCING CUTS decreed by the administration of Donald TrumP caused the institution to have been forced to remove financial support from FEI.

The loss of the bag forced the young man to give up your study plan abroad, which cannot afford to pay. FEI’s father is miner In Leshan, Sichuan, while the mother does occasional work in supermarkets.

Fei thought then that it could earn life with a street food bank After remembering that when he was young, he helped his grandmother sell balloons – quite successful. In addition, Fei had been “Sales Champion” of telephone cards while working in part-time during studies in Sichuan.

On March 10, Fei Started a Puré de Potato businessand set up a SNACK SALE near the gates of your alma materthe University of Sichuan, in Chengdu.

So far, the performance of business has been satisfactorysays Fei. Customers often queue to buy food, and Wins between 80 and 120 euros a day.

Many customers knew their history through social networksfei tells. “I don’t feel embarrassed at all. I’m outgoing. I think it’s a good thing that people know my identity and be curious about me. If they think the taste of food is good, certainly come back to buy“.

Some people criticized him for waste educational resourcesbut it disagrees. “I don’t think it’s a shame to have interrupted my master’s studies and not accepting a job related to my area. In my opinion, It is not the result that is important, but the process“.

Daily, Fei passes about 4 hours preparing your potato puree and other food ingredients before opening your stand at 5 pm. It normally closes two to three hours later, when the products run out.

“It’s exhaustive. But I have no psychological pressure From academic studies, ”says FEI.“ By freeing myself from studies or scientific research, I feel that I entered a new world“.