Yang explains that his school had a tradition of being liberal and lenient with students. For their part, students did not go overboard and neglect their studies. During his last year in high school, when his classmates had all returned to the classroom to plow away in preparation for the Joint College Entrance Examination, Yang was still searching for his future outside of textbooks.
他表示，建中校風自由，對學生寬容，而學生也不會離譜到不關心未來，高三時，當其他同學已經乖乖回到教室裡唸書拚聯考，只有他還在課本外尋覓未來。