Chapter 52: The Real Gap
September 25, the last Friday before the National Day.
Central University of Science and Technology, Academy of Physical Sciences, Dean's Office.
Dean Ding always has endless materials and documents on his desk.
Dean Ding is an old man who is over sixty years old, and as the dean of the Academy of Physical Sciences of the Central University of Science and Technology, he is of course also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he is definitely worthy of the title of "physicist".
He was a Chinese Oceanic when he was young, graduated from a top physics school in Oceania, and worked as a professor at MIT.
But it's a pity that the Oceanic countries on the Blue Hole Star are much more slashing than the United States on Earth.
There is no competition in the Cold War, and the allocation of resources in a pure market economy has led to the fact that the officials of the Oceanic countries also feel that "the spectacle is misleading". It is reluctant to spend a lot of money on the wonders of "large particle collider", which "consumes XX billion resources and has international prestige +N after completion".
However, Dean Ding is studying microscopic particles, or experimental physics.
The government of Oceania refuses to invest this money in MIT, and there is no future for staying there, and it is estimated that he will not win the Nobel Prize in this life.
This is the biggest difference between studying theoretical physics and experimental physics.
If the state does not spend a lot of money on super-large scientific research equipment, you can also hide in the study to study theory. As long as there is a breakthrough, he can still win the Nobel Prize - just like whether it is on the earth or the blue hole star, Yang Zhenning has won it. There is no way, the universe is not conserved and Yang Mills, and it can be studied if you are poor, and that thing is a theoretical demonstration and a mathematical model.
If you do an experiment, if the experiment is too expensive, you will stop eating if no one gives you money.
So in the 80s, Dean Ding was a professor at MIT until he was in his forties, and he was disheartened. happened to meet the high treatment given by China at that time, and as long as he returned to China, he was the head of the department of microphysics of the Central University of Science and Technology, and he was given the title of academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and various resources, so he returned to China and defected.
It's been so many years.
When Dean Ding was immersed in the review, his assistant walked in gently, put something on the desk, and said softly:
"Dean, please sign this document when you have time. I have to send it to the Registrar's Office before work today. ”
Dean Ding slowly retracted the Yuan Shen from the technical document, and was stunned for a few seconds before his attention switched.
Just like a person who cultivates peerless martial arts, he must breathe out a whole week before collecting his martial arts, as if he is going crazy to prevent him from going mad.
"What's that?"
"The results of this year's waiver application test for new students. For the professional course, we need to sign and confirm it in our college, and report to the academic affairs office of the school to count it. ”
"Oh, it turned out to be that thing. Dean Ding thought about it and signed it casually.
The scores must have been repeatedly checked by the people below, and the dean actually signed and assumed leadership responsibilities.
However, after Dean Ding signed, he subconsciously took a second look.
Because on this table, there is a row that is more abrupt.
Not a line, to be exact, but a paragraph, and that paragraph is a line break.
Dean Ding subconsciously asked: "Who is this, there have been so many exemption applications? President Xu doesn't think that our Academy of Physical Sciences will release water this year, right? Is it too easy to retake the paper?"
In this table from previous years, each row is divided into four columns.
The first column is the student number of the new applicant;
The second column is the name;
The third column is the name of the subject that passes the exemption test, and each course is separated by a number.
The fourth column is the total number of credits for these subjects combined.
According to the experience of previous years, Dean Ding has not seen the number of freshmen who have passed the exemption test, and he can't write down a single line.
A4 printing paper, a line of forty characters, remove the other three columns, at least seven or eight courses can be written, and high math up/down, college English 1~4, these are all combined abbreviation.
But today, on the form he just signed, the guy who was in first place, wrote a full two lines of the number of tests passed and turned a corner, and the last course was written on the third line, which made the whole table look discordant.
This is so eye-catching, it is difficult for Dean Ding not to notice it.
"Xiaohu, how many years have we been implementing this test-free and exchange student program?" Dean Ding couldn't help but ask the assistant.
When I get older, I don't pay much attention to those worldly management matters, and I often can't remember. People's brains are used to remember major scientific research events.
"Dean, it started in '90, and this year is the eighth year. "Assistant Xiaohu played the role of memo and "giving things" very well.
Dean Ding: "It's been eight years, I shouldn't have seen such a high pass rate for freshmen, right? Is it because the quality of this year's students has suddenly improved, or is it because the teacher who has repaired the exam papers has released water?"
Xiaohu said euphemistically: "I have communicated with the teachers who wrote the make-up examination papers for the professional courses, and they all said that they were absolutely business-like."
And here's what I think: the pass rate of other people on this table is quite normal. For example, the second place, Chen Gang in Class 6, has passed a total of four foreign languages, and the professional courses are mainly two mathematics, basic physics, and circuits, with a total of six 10 courses and 47 credits. This means that the difficulty of the paper should be fine, right? It's just that the first place is too abrupt. ”
As soon as the assistant said this, Dean Ding also felt normal.
The requirements of the Central University of Science and Technology are the most stringent in China, and it generally takes 240 credits to graduate from the undergraduate program.
However, the fourth-year internship and thesis graduation project all account for a quarter, so the cultural class is only 60 points per year. This is equivalent to taking an average of 6 5-point main courses per semester, or more than two or three points of elective courses.
Chen Gang, who ranked second, applied for a 47-credit exemption in his freshman year, which is equivalent to saving one and a half semesters compared to other students.
It's a pity that he met Gu Play this year.
Dean Ding didn't care about the parts that overlapped with Chen Gang, but only looked at the subjects he passed more than others
"The complex variable function, only Gu Play has been alone. Analog circuits, digital circuits, thermodynamic fundamentals, optical fundamentals, geometrical optics, wave optics, electromagnetics, electrodynamics, ......"
Gu played better than the second place, and went 10 more courses and 38 credits, no wonder he couldn't finish writing two lines.
"This Gu Wan has been exempted from a total of 85 credits, so he can basically take professional classes directly with the juniors. Seeing this result, Dean Ding was also a little surprised.
The school only allows professional courses and mathematics foreign languages to apply for exemption, and philosophy and politics must be brainwashed and do not accept shortcuts. Otherwise, this Gu Play won't have to go to class for the entire freshman and sophomore years.
But everyone knows that there is no one at all about the philosophical and political legal foundations, that is, the credits are given, and it doesn't matter if you skip most of the classes.
In addition, there is physical education class, and Gu Play must also go to it.
After being surprised, Dean Ding's next reaction was that he felt that Gu played with this name, as if he had seen it.
He asked the assistant: "Is this Gu Play an ordinary fresh graduate, and did he have any other achievements in the past?"
Assistant Teacher Hu obviously did his homework first after getting the list, and hurriedly popularized science: "I have checked the situation of this freshman Gu Play, and he is indeed talented."
During the summer vacation, he made a small achievement in astrophysics, measuring the world's lowest cosmic microwave background radiation, which was published in the Journal of Tunghai University and cited by Professor Penzias, a well-known scientist in Oceania and a popular candidate for the Nobel Prize.
I heard that the citation factor of the July issue of the Journal of Tunghai University has skyrocketed dozens of times compared with other months. So far, Gu Wan's paper has been cited by more than 80 journals that have entered the SCI impact database. Five of his articles have been cited in the two major journals "Science" and "Nature". ”
Dean Ding suddenly realized: "I think of it, isn't this the Gu play that Lao Meng mentioned to me." That's right, it's not surprising to be able to achieve so much and get a bunch of high scores on the waiver test. ”
The old Meng in his mouth is, of course, Dean Meng of the School of Astronomy of the Central University of Science and Technology, and the two are colleagues.
In addition, Dean Meng is also the director of the Zijin Observatory. That is, during the summer vacation, he was invited by Donghai Satellite TV to appear on the "Science Today" variety show and was a guest on the same stage with Gu Wan.
The reason why Dean Ding didn't think about it at first was mainly because he was the kind of scientist who engaged in research behind closed doors, and most of the secular affairs were handled by assistants.
Dean Ding's own research direction is microscopic particles. He doesn't care much about any new developments in astrophysics.
Assistant Professor Hu saw that the dean said that there was no problem, so he respectfully withdrew from the office and sent the signed materials to the Academic Affairs Office.
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The next day, Saturday, early in the morning, the Academic Affairs Office posted the test results of the exemption application on the public notice board downstairs of the complex building.
Just after the end of the three-week military training for freshmen, and the first weekend of sheep herding after the military training, everyone wandered around and soon spread the news.
"The second class of the 98th grade of the Academy of Physical Sciences, Gu play! Since the whole school has an exchange student system, the pass rate of exemption is the highest! A total of 20 classes and 85 credits are exempted! 30 credits exceed the second place in history!"
Gu Wan's classmates were directly shocked.
Is this a human thing?
Then, the shock turned into honor. Because Gu Play has won glory for the Academy of Physical Sciences after all, his performance surpassed the top students of other academies, so that the freshmen of this class of the Academy of Physical Sciences have more face when they go out.
But Gu Play was not satisfied at all - if it weren't for his professional direction in his previous life, he would be slightly different from this life. Those professional courses in the junior year can also be easily passed with high scores.
As soon as the announcement was posted, of course Ma Yiyi also went to see it.
Although, she already knows how many courses she has passed and how many credits she has completed. But the official notice, I still can't help but look at it.
When she saw Gu Wan's extra points, she also felt a huge gap in her heart.
"85 credits! I only took 33 credits...... I thought that if the difficulty of the college entrance examination was lower, I would have a chance to be the top student in the college entrance examination in this state. It turns out that the real gap is so big......"
In the end, Ma Yiyi only passed 20 credits in the fourth semester of foreign language, 5 points in advanced mathematics, and 4 points each in probability and statistics and C language.
She is also more cautious, knowing that after she has hung up on high mathematics, she has a very clear understanding of her math class strength. Therefore, I skipped linear algebra and complex variable functions and did not dare to report, leaving the last life to the relatively simple probability statistics in mathematics.
If she is like other honor students who are known for their recklessness, it is estimated that she will stop at 25 credits.
This gap made Ma Yiyi's view of Gu Play repositioned.
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