Time flew by quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was already mid-December, and the final exams were coming. Spurred by the academic pressure, even the slacker students picked up their textbooks, borrowed notes, and copied PowerPoint slides. They had to work hard at the last minute.
Whether it was a bad student or a genius student, the last few weeks of the school year were always the busiest.
Especially for the mathematics department students, their brains were filled with mathematical symbols when they ate and slept.
This was the perfect interpretation of the saying.
As long as you chose a good major, every year was like a college entrance exam.
Finally, what was supposed to come came.
The first exam was ordinary differential equations, taught by Professor Liu Xiangping.
Judging from the few key points in the last lecture, many people had a hunch that this exam would not be easy.
However, Lu Zhou was not too worried.
He had done his homework, and he had absolute confidence in his mathematics ability. He entered the exam room with ease and walked out in less than half an hour.
Originally, he thought that Professor Liu Xiangping would deliberately leave some difficult questions on the exam paper to make things difficult for him. He did not expect it to be a test of basic knowledge. For these types of exams, as long as the students listened to the lecture carefully and did their own homework, they would not do too badly.
Not to mention, for people like him who had already studied the entire textbook.
Maybe …
Maybe he wants the students to have a good Chinese New Year?
After leaving the exam room, Lu Zhou was about to go back to the library to read the thesis that he had not finished reading. However, he did not walk far before he bumped into Professor Liu, the examiner of the exam.
Looking at the badge hanging on the chest of the graduate student behind him, the two of them should be inspecting the exam room. However, this old professor personally led the team to inspect the exam. He must have a lot of free time. Isn't this usually left to graduate students to do?
Also, being so responsible was not Professor Liu's style.
"Yo, you're done so quickly? Aren't you going to check it? "Professor Liu smiled when he saw Lu Zhou.
Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly and said, "It's just some basic questions. I don't think there's anything to check, so I handed it in."
"Ah, basic questions?" Professor Liu smiled and said, "Okay then, I will personally mark your paper. If you can't get full marks, you know this 20% mark."
Hearing Professor Liu's words, Lu Zhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He thought to himself, This was something that happened at the start of school, and you still remember it? Is there a need for that?
However, he wasn't too worried. After all, he was a man who had proven a world-class mathematical conjecture. If he could make a mistake on a question of this level, it would be a waste of the Chinese media's praise for him.
"Alright, I won't chat with you anymore. I still have a mission from the Dean. I bumped into him on the way here just now. He's looking for you. He wants to see when you have time to go to the laboratory. " Professor Liu paused for a second. He then smiled and said, "Not bad, young man. You're already working on a scientific research project."
"I'm just an assistant." Lu Zhou smiled and said modestly.
"Alright, don't be modest. I knew you were a talent in scientific research when you participated in the mathematical modeling competition. I read your computational materials science thesis. It's a bit interesting. This ability to use mathematical tools to solve scientific research problems is what I've always asked of my students. It's just that not many of them took my words seriously. "
Professor Liu smiled and said, "How about this, you just graduate and come to do a master's degree here. With your level, you should have no problem doing a master's degree. If you have any ideas, I'll think of something for you?"
"This … Sorry, Professor Liu, I haven't thought about what direction to go in the future, so I can't give you an answer right now," said Lu Zhou as he coughed and awkwardly avoided the topic.
Standing behind Professor Liu, the graduate student who had not spoken had a blank expression on his face. He even felt like he wanted to fight.
Other people pick their students, but it's the other way around. The professor is not even hinting, he's already made it clear. Why are you still thinking about it? Think about it my a * s!
Jealousy separates me, distortion causes me to decompose …
Other than cursing, he did not want to say anything else.
…
Coincidentally, at Zhi University, a hundred kilometers away, in a laboratory at the Institute of Materials Science, there were also a lot of people who wanted to curse in their hearts.
Just yesterday, the Institute of Materials Science of Jin Ling University's scientific research project on carbon nanotubes modified cement-based composite materials had been approved.
Twenty minutes ago, the project leader, Professor Yu Hongkang, announced this fact. For their research team, which was also researching carbon nanotubes modified cement-based composite materials, this news was undoubtedly bad news.
The project they were working on had been finished by other laboratories, which meant that nearly half a year's worth of work had gone down the drain.
The mechanical properties of the new sample had just been tested, and the remaining Fourier infrared spectroscopy data collection was no longer done.
Because it was no longer needed.
In order to reduce their losses, they could only rack their brains to dig out the things that others hadn't labeled yet. In other words, they had to find the leftover grape skins of others to eat …
Professor Yu Hongkang gave everyone in the project team a vacation, but no one left. Everyone was in the laboratory.
A short boy wearing glasses lowered his head and said with shame, "I … I'm sorry."
His name was Wang Che, a graduate student at Zhi University's School of Materials Science and Engineering. He received a double degree in applied mathematics and materials chemistry as an undergraduate.
After he became a graduate student, he chose the cutting-edge computational materials science as his main direction. After he entered Yu Hongkang's research team, he quickly gained the recognition of all the researchers because of his mathematics talent.
However, at the critical moment, he dropped the ball.
Although he also used mathematical tools to analyze the Fourier infrared data, he was blinded by some things and missed the clues that he should not have missed … Even though no one blamed him, his heart was still filled with a deep sense of self-blame.
Professor Yu shook his head and said, "No, this is not your fault. Jin Ling University's research in this field is indeed at the forefront. Last time at the China Society of Advanced Materials held an academic exchange conference in Hangzhou, I met Lee Yong-eun at the conference. I had a bad feeling about this. "
Now it seemed that his premonition was correct.
Perhaps he shouldn't have gone against Jin Ling University in the first place. He shouldn't have gone against Jin Ling University's strongest field.
Did he just lose because of a thesis?
No way.
They were all top universities, and they were all research teams led by top professors in the industry. Those who could stay in them were definitely not idiots.
However, if he saw the thesis two months ago and adjusted his experimental ideas in time, maybe the situation would have been different?
After all, they had done similar data. There might be a difference in strength between the two sides, but the difference was actually very small …
Professor Yu Hongkang thought about this and sighed.
Jin Ling University has a good seed!
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