When Virginia returned to the "cabin in the woods", Evan and the others had already eaten dinner and were eating after cooking.

Don't think crookedly, you want to be crooked and consciously face the wall - they are just playing oversized flying chess on the living room carpet.

This Ludo was created by Evan and bears some resemblance to another game of the same name that originated in India. Of course, only Evan himself knows that this is a masterpiece of the Chinese.

When Virginia entered the house, Evan was shaking the dice with his palms together and muttering "God Bless" while Audrey was standing next to her with a smile on her lips and a relaxed expression.

Just now, Audrey took two just right points in a row and blew Evan's plane back to the base camp twice in a row. Now that her plane is far ahead, Evan can only pray to God if he wants to catch up.

"Open!"

Evan let out a loud snort and threw the dice, which rolled a few times on the floor. When he stopped, Evan looked at it and exclaimed, "Good, it's six!"

Evan looked like it and moved a plane from base camp to the starting point before picking up the dice.

Three more times, and his plane will be ready to go.

Evan was concentrating on the game, and Audrey saw Virginia returning, beckoned to her, and smiled, "Virginia, you're back! ”

Virginia took the key away and said, "Thank you, Audrey!"

She came to the 'chessboard' to take a look and said with a smile: "Evan, if you are like this, even God can't save you!"

Evan shook the dice, glanced at his sister angrily, and said, "Go away, go away, if you can't get out of Six, I'll rely on you!"

With that, Evan threw the dice. The dice stop, the points come out, it's five!

As soon as he looked at the points, Evan patted his mouth lightly, and said as he patted back, "Ouch, crow's mouth!"

After punishing himself, Evan turned his gaze to Virginia. Virginia glared back, "See what I'm doing, recognize the reality, you're hopeless in this game!"

At this time, Audrey sat on the ground and picked up the dice, and looked at Evan with a grin: "Do you want to continue?"

Evan thought about it, and reluctantly bowed his head and said, "Forget it, I admit defeat!"

Audrey threw the dice into the box containing the chess pieces on the ground, clapped her hands, and said, "In that case, I would like to lose the bet, Evan, don't go quickly, hurry up, finish the work, and the three of us will have another game!"

As she spoke, Audrey pushed Evan with both hands in the direction of the kitchen.

Their bet was nothing other than cleaning up the kitchen after dinner.

After sending a dejected Evan into the kitchen, Audrey returns to the living room and sees Virginia sitting on a flair board, her eyes blank and her hands unconsciously playing with chess pieces.

Audrey asked, "Virginia, to UCLA?"

Virginia came back to her senses and nodded, "Yes......"

"By the way, how is the art high school environment?"

Audrey said, "It's okay!"

She saw that Virginia didn't seem to want to talk about UCLA, so she talked about what she saw today: "Because of the proximity to USC, we spent the afternoon on campus......"

……

The next day, the three went to Caltech, a kilometer away. This time they won't be headless flies like yesterday, because they have Edward Rogers as a guide.

Located in Pasadena, Caltech is a miniature campus at just 124 acres (50.18 hectares). For comparison, the other two schools in Los Angeles, the USC campus has 226 hectares and UCLA has 170 hectares, both several times larger than Caltech.

However, Caltech is small in size, but it is well-equipped, healthy, and strong. It began with a World War I National Council grant for research and emerged during California's booming economy, but it was also based on its philosophy of "pursuing the most important scientific research while providing a comprehensive curriculum of engineering and pure sciences under the guidance of basic sciences such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and broadening and enriching the curriculum through extensive instruction in subjects such as English, history, and economics." ”

Under the guidance of this philosophy, Caltech has become a research university with a rigorous elite education and a high student-to-faculty ratio. In the last lifetime, it was the institution of higher learning with the highest density of Nobel Prize winners in the world.

At half past nine in the morning, Evan and his party arrived at Caltech and successfully met Edward Rogers at 1200 California Street, the entrance to the college.

The group's trip to Caltech also began here.

There are buildings on the left and right sides of the entrance, the Norman Bridget Physics Laboratory on the left and the High Voltage Institute on the right.

Rogers told Evan that a philanthropic foundation named Alfred Sloan was talking to the school about donating money, and if that did, the High Voltage Institute on the right might have to change its name.

Who is this Alfred Sloane?

He is the CEO of General Motors, which had a general strike some time ago. He has been in this position for twenty-five years now. During this time, Sloan overhauled GM from less than 12 percent of the market share when he took office to surpassing Ford as the largest company in the U.S. auto industry in the '30s.

However, due to the recent strike, Sloan has faced tremendous pressure, and it has been rumored that he may resign or be promoted (retired) to the position of chairman.

Passing through the entrance, Rogers took the group on a tour of the library, then walked east along the OliveWalk to a square, white-walled, red-roofed two-story building.

It's called Hovses, and it's Caltech's residence hall that consists of four different areas called the Blacker House, the Dabney House, the Fleming House, and the Ricketts House. According to the requirements of the university, all undergraduate students are required to live here in the first year, and only after the second year can they choose to live in the dormitory or find a place to live on their own. This provision is derived from the imitation of the residential college system of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The residential college system requires that the dormitory area is not only the student's bedroom, but also the student's living area, and the study area discussion area. In the accommodation area, everything including cleaning and cooking etc is done by yourself.

Because Hovses was the place where Evan spent most of the year outside of the classroom, Rogers deliberately gave a lot of detail about the interior. Each of Hovses' four districts has its own characteristics and rules, and Rogers advises Evan to choose carefully on the day of registration.

Next, the group first went north, then west, and finally south, and made a big circle to introduce the various teaching buildings, laboratories and administrative buildings of the school. This lap down, even though the school is only 50 hectares, took them a whole day.