Tsao kept up his strong academic performance at senior high school, with his teachers expecting him to go on to a good college, and Tsao himself dreamed of the day he would become a freshman at college.
升上高中後，曹明生的課業表現維持中上，老師們認為他會考取不錯的大學，而他也一直夢想有朝一日能夠成為大學新鮮人。