As he was about to graduate, Chen for a time could not decide whether to continue his research in graduate school or not.
升上大三，陳遠建一度想靜下心來，多讀點書，好準備報考中文研究所。「但是我又感覺做學術研究和我的志趣不盡相同，得投下太多的時間，又無法盡速對社會做直接的貢獻。」