Chapter 389: School day

Chapter 389
September 6.
Today is the opening day of MIT graduate school.
This year, Chali, who has already graduated for the second year, volunteered to take up the job of welcoming the freshmen of the Mathematics Department.
Sitting under the welcome tent, Classmate Chali was lying on the table, swiping his mobile phone boredly.
The School of Science at MIT admits very few graduate students each year.
Especially in the Department of Mathematics, they only admitted less than 30 new students this year.
Of course, this is not the reason for the unpopularity of this profession.
MIT pays attention to precision, not quantity. There are less than 30 graduate students, but they are the top mathematics geniuses selected through the world.
Just take out one, it is enough to crush the top mathematics students of ordinary universities.
There were few people reporting, and classmate Chali was not so busy at work. After asking a new reporter to fill out the report form, classmate Chali continued to lower his head and brush his mobile phone.
I opened the math section of the ResearhGate forum and saw that the post on top of Shinichi Ueda's reply to Cheng Nuo's confusion was still at the top. There was a look of nostalgia in Chali's eyes.
It's been more than ten days, I don't know where the great is, how is your time?
"Classmate, let me report!" Chali, who was sinking into thinking, suddenly heard a slightly familiar voice above his head.
"Oh, say your name..." Classmate Chali looked up, but when he saw the face that he missed day and night, his eyes widened sharply.
"Great God, you, you..."
Cheng Nuo smiled, "Student Chali, long time no see!"
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At noon, inside a coffee shop in the school.
Classmate Chali obviously hasn't recovered from the shock before.
He hesitated for a while, swallowed, and said hesitantly, "Great God, you are not a doctoral student?"
Cheng Nuo took a sip of coffee, smashed it, it was bitter.
He smiled, "Who told you I was a PhD student?"
"But, you..." Classmate Chali didn't know what to say.
With the strength that Cheng Nuo showed before, if Cheng Nuo's appearance is not like he has graduated, Chali almost treats Cheng Nuo as a young mathematician who has graduated a few years ago.
But today I discovered that the senior doctoral student who he admired so much was actually his junior when he was studying for the first time. Classmate Chali felt that the three views were about to collapse.
Is it that the current freshman graduate students are so abnormal? !
"Are you a little disappointed?" Cheng Nuo asked.
"No, no, no!" Classmate Chali shook his head like a rattle.
Knowing Cheng Nuo's true identity, Cheng Nuo's status in Chali's mind has not only not declined, but has increased a lot.
Yanyi’s younger brother!
Dashen was so good when he was in the first degree. When he graduated from his doctoral degree, wouldn't it be...
Classmate Chali could no longer imagine.
This thigh may still be very slender at present, but in the future, it may not have the potential to become a towering tree.
Silently, classmate Chali made a decision.
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There is a big difference between the graduate level and the undergraduate level of the Department of Mathematics.
The first is the reduction of courses and the increase of internship and project time. Even if you skip classes or miss courses, as long as it is not too much, no one will take care of it.
In three years, the opportunity for a class to get together is probably only the first year's first class meeting and the graduation photo.
There are only 28 graduate students in the Department of Mathematics in 2022, plus Cheng Nuo.
Among them, twenty are Americans, and the other eight are students from major universities in the world. As for the Chinese, there is only Cheng Nuo.
The first class meeting at the beginning of the school will be held at two in the afternoon, and the counselor will be there.
There are only two things in the class meeting, one is the formal selection of class members, and the other is the two-way selection of graduate tutors and students.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology adopts the form of enrolling first and then selecting graduate tutors.
In fact, for most students, the choice of postgraduate tutors, in terms of importance, is tantamount to filling in the second college entrance examination.
Before graduate tutors and graduate tutors, there is also a large gap in strength, conduct and connections.
If you choose a mentor who is irresponsible and who goes out on business from time to time, and you don’t see a mentor two or three times a year, then your path to school can be said to be colder for the most part!
Of course, you can’t focus on the quality of your tutor for this reason without considering whether your tutor’s research direction overlaps with your own planned future research direction.
This is the advice given to Cheng Nuo by classmate Chali as a "comer".
Cheng Nuo didn't mean anything.
After eating lunch, walking around the campus, Cheng Nuo rushed to the meeting classroom, pinching the time.
Almost everyone in the classroom was already here, and Cheng Nuo casually found an empty place to sit down.
There is no one I know, and the face of a westerner is all the same, sitting in the same place.
After a glance, Cheng Nuo couldn't help but almost said another MMP.
Twenty-eight people, all men, not a single mother.
Previously, a group of wolves grabbed a piece of meat, but this time it was good. There was no one even the meat, so the wolf could only eat it.
Their counselor is a chubby middle-aged man with a Maitreya Buddha smile on his face.
It is the usual process, and after a brief introduction, the selection of class committee members.
At the graduate level, the form of the class committee is greater than the meaning.
After a simple vote, a native American with golden-framed eyes who obtained the qualifications for undergraduate study was awarded the position of monitor.
Based on the idea of ​​everyone participating, Cheng Nuo continued to elect the post of study committee, but unfortunately lost the election.
The selection of the class committee is just an appetizer, and the two-way choice between the graduate tutor and the graduate student is the top priority.
The counselor received a call, he let everyone rest for a while, and then hurried out.
In the classroom, there were instant talks.
"Guide, are you going to ask our mentor?"
"It should be, to be honest, I am very nervous now!"
"Me too! I heard that Professor Barney will serve as the graduate tutor for this class~EbookFREE.me~ I don't know if I can be photographed by him."
"Professor Barney, you are talking about the professor Barney who won the Ramanu Gold Award for a paper on twin primes last year? That's a real-big guy!"
"Yes, that's the one! I really want to be his student!"
Amidst the discussion, the classroom door was pushed.
The chubby guide came in first, and then ten professors filed in.
These ten, without exception, are all teachers who have obtained doctorate degrees and professor titles.
Everyone who took it out was enough to be provided for by ordinary universities.
But here, they are just tutors for a group of graduate students.
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