Late at night.

Consistent.

Juno and Karen stayed, while Adam and Peggy exchanged quantum physics for a deeper spiritual exchange.

"You're studying math?"

Peggy's eyes were empty for a moment, and then she asked suddenly.

"Yes. ”

Adam nodded.

In addition to medical books, he has recently added a large number of mathematical monographs to his study.

The posture of learning is obvious.

"Why?"

Peggy turned to the side and looked at Adam.

"Ugh. ”

Adam paused and said with a smile: "Naturally, in order to better study medicine, mathematics is the foundation of all science, and the advent of the Duncan-Adler formula is the best proof."

Since I have the energy and the ability, it's not a bad thing to learn more. ”

"You're such a strange person. ”

Peggy reached out and pinched Adam's chin, swayed it from side to side, and said curiously: "The IQ I used to show was the same as that of ordinary people, and I didn't have any talent at all.

But in the past few years, you can play chess with me and retell so many complicated data without any mistakes.

In between studying medicine, I looked at your reading notes, and your progress in self-study mathematics was also extremely amazing.

IQ may be able to improve, but it is definitely not possible to improve by such leaps and bounds.

Can you tell me how you did that?"

"Can't it be that I deliberately hid it in the past?"

Adam smiled.

"No, you can't. ”

Peggy shook her head: "You can't pretend to be stupid." ”

“......”

The corners of Adam's mouth twitched.

"Ah, what are you doing?"

Peggy frowned.

"I don't know, I need to ask myself and then I'll tell you the answer. ”

Adam said solemnly.

"It's this set again, aren't you annoyed!"

Peggy rolled her eyes.

The last time we talked in the middle of the night, Adam swore seriously by touching his conscience.

Now it's another set of questions.

What a thing!

"I'm sorry. ”

Adam went in a different direction.

“......”

Peggy didn't want to talk anymore.

"I'm not Leonard. ”

Seeing this, Adam smiled proudly.

"What does this Leonard have to do with that?"

Peggy couldn't help but ask.

She knew that Adam was a stupid friend, and her IQ was okay, but she was always cringe, and she didn't dare to look directly at girls.

How could such a person do the same thing as Adam now?

"Huh. ”

Adam couldn't hold back his laughter and told Peggy some of Leonard's troubles.

Of course.

At this point, Leonard hadn't met Penny yet.

Thus Adam is directly referred to as a certain girl.

Emmm。

This is a small story recorded in the book written by Leonard's mother Beverly.

To put it concisely, it is easy to change the nature of the country and difficult to change.

Leonard has liked the left since he was a child, he has always liked the left, and then he has always liked the left.

Sure enough, it's a child.

I don't understand the mystery of everything.

"You really want to learn math?"

Peggy, too, was accustomed to Adam's shamelessness, and soon skipped the process of ruining the vocabulary and focused on mathematics.

"Hmm. ”

Adam nodded.

"You work hard, finish your undergraduate and graduate studies quickly, and then you can study for my PhD. ”

Peggy said seriously.

"You're ready to teach?"

Adam was amazed.

In the United States, there are two types of professors in universities.

One is teaching while researching, and the promotion system is assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor.

The other category is specialized in research, and the promotion system is research assistant professor, research associate professor, and research full professor.

A Ph.D. can be an assistant professor or research assistant professor.

But because assistant professors are the only way to professorship, this relatively constant position is becoming more and more scarce as there are more and more doctoral students.

Keep upgrading.

Not only does it require a probationary period of 3 to 7 years, but it also requires excellent academic research, teaching and research results, and recognition by school colleagues.

But associate professors and full professors are tenure-track positions.

It is similar to the regular establishment of the eastern country.

It didn't get to the point of anger, and the headmaster couldn't fire him.

And there are higher salaries and benefits.

This is also the reason why after a tenured professor went crazy, everyone in Sheldon applauded, and then there was a fierce competition.

Like Sheldon.

He started out as a research assistant professor specializing in string theory in theoretical physics.

At this time, he could become a lecturer and transfer to a teaching assistant professor.

Emmm。

It's just that on the first attempt, he exchanged a turn for all the students to raise their middle fingers in unison.

Afterwards, I read the students' very caustic comments.

What 'Einstein's theory of relativity is used here, it applies perfectly, Dr. Cooper's class makes time pass extremely slowly', 'Dr. Cooper is like a big cockroach', 'Kill me'.

Sheldon, who originally thought that he had successfully educated a generation, was very angry, and remembered that teaching his brother George Jr. in high school was also in vain, and completely gave up the idea of educating these stupid humans.

In this way, he naturally gave up the promotion path of teaching professor.

However, the research of string theory entered a bottleneck period, and because of too many changes in various things around him, he couldn't stand it, so he directly chose to escape.

When he returned, Caltech transferred him from a research assistant professor to a teaching assistant professor in order to retain him as a talent with a 'beautiful mind'.

Sheldon's reply was, "I've come back from a lap and you're going to give me a promotion and a raise, and then I'm going to pass on my knowledge to the next generation?

The same assistant professor, a teaching assistant professor who teaches while researching, is obviously more difficult and has a higher status than a research assistant professor who simply does research.

Sheldon had no choice but to agree, and like Leonard, he became a teaching assistant professor who taught while researching.

That's right!

Surprise!

Leonard has always held a higher position than Shelton.

He once forced Sheldon to give a lecture to his students in his class under the threat of not taking him to the comic shop.

As such, he is a teaching assistant professor who teaches while researching.

It's just that in the chain of scientific contempt, in the position of being despised by Sheldon.

And Sheldon can't be an assistant professor of teaching just because he can't communicate with students, it's not that he doesn't have that qualification.

Just look at Sheldon's acceptance of Caltech's 'perverted' suggestion to become an assistant professor who is also responsible for teaching, and immediately be able to teach Ph.D. students (Howard wanted Shelton's Ph.D.).

To know.

Doctoral supervisors are generally full professors, and only a very small number of excellent associate professors and assistant professors are qualified to be doctoral supervisors.

Peggy is now a research assistant professor, but the school is 100 percent willing to let her move to an assistant professor of teaching if she wants to.

And with Peggy's excellence and the position of assistant professor, it is not impossible to be a doctoral supervisor.

"There is this idea. ”

"There are too many undergraduates and graduate students, I don't want to take them, but if I want a Ph.D., I can take just one of you, and when you get your Ph.D. in mathematics, I'll give up teaching and go back to research assistant professors, well, maybe I'll be an associate professor or a full professor by then," Peggy said. ”

"You're teaching for me?"

Adam was a little moved.

"I'll take you, as long as you reach the level, you can easily graduate. ”

Peggy nodded: "You can arrange the time freely, and it won't delay you as a doctor." ”

"No, I just want to learn a little more about mathematics, and I don't care about a PhD in mathematics. ”

Adam smiled: "It's really convenient for you to take me, but it's not nice to say, even if you get a doctorate in mathematics, there must be people who chew the root of your tongue." ”

"That's right. ”

Peggy was stunned.

"But thank you. ”

The corners of Adam's mouth curled: "And you don't have to be in the classroom to teach me......"

Peggy: "......"