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Chen Xuan hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Since Miss Huang likes Jingshi University so much, why don't you come here to study for graduate school?"

"Yes? I've heard that graduate students at Jingshi University are more difficult to get into than undergraduates. Although it recruits more people, at least half of them are reserved for escort students, and the remaining half not only have to fight with college students across the country, but also beware of crooked nuts. A scumbag like me who didn't get into a prestigious school in high school can still expect to turn over after work?"

Chen Xuan shook his head: "You can't say that. If you are engaged in education, you should have heard of the saying, "Undergraduate students choose famous schools, masters choose majors, and doctoral students choose supervisors". Many high school students are actually very confused during the college entrance examination, and they don't know what they like or what career they want to pursue in the future. Teachers and parents are also confused, and will only follow the trend according to the student's score to report some famous schools within their ability, which leads to a swarm of high-scoring candidates to squeeze into the famous schools, and the admission scores of the famous schools remain high. ”

Huang Tongyuan was a little puzzled: "Shouldn't you go to a prestigious school with a high score?"

"A high score can only mean that he studied better in the previous stage, has more choice space when registering for the college entrance examination, and has the qualifications to enter a prestigious school, which does not mean that he must go to a prestigious school. It's like some girls have good grades, maybe their biggest hobby is fashion design or photography, and if you ask her to come to Jingshi University to study nuclear physics, it will be torture for her, and it may also make people who really like nuclear physics lose the opportunity to study. In this case, why not let that girl go to a professional art school, and let someone who really likes nuclear physics come to study at Jingshi University?" Chen Xuan immediately changed his words, "Of course, when you are not sure of your direction, it is indeed a good choice to go to a famous school, because the famous school has a deep heritage and a large number of famous teachers, in Ge Zi's words just now, it can teach methods and change temperament, so that people can quickly broaden their horizons and find their hobbies." Therefore, you should choose a prestigious school for undergraduates. ”

"What about 'master's majors'?"

"Although the undergraduate is also divided into majors, but in general, the degree of differentiation of each major under the first-level discipline is not high, except for a few professional core courses, either Chinese, foreign language, meditation, physical education and other public basic courses of the whole school, or the basic compulsory courses and professional optional courses of the whole department, basically all lay the foundation, so that many people do not have much pressure to change majors in the second year and graduate school after graduation. After four years of training, those who are interested in further study have found the direction they are interested in. This direction is usually very narrow, like mathematics, our department head Mr. Hui has done special statistics, Gezi, how many secondary and tertiary disciplines are there?"

"There are 26 second-level disciplines and nearly 150 third-level disciplines under the first-level discipline of mathematics. Jiang Shuiyuan replied for Uncle Ge, "Mr. Hui has been to our Huai'an Mansion and mentioned it to us. ”

Chen Xuan nodded approvingly: "That's it! So many research directions, maybe I am most interested in the saddle theory in probability theory, you are most interested in statistical inference in mathematical statistics, and he is most interested in operator algebra in functional analysis, and the professional discrimination comes out at once." When they are in graduate school or graduate school, they will aim for the major they are most interested in, and then choose the school with the best major. This is called 'master's degree selection'. Because of this, the unpopular majors of many prestigious universities often appear to be unattended, just like the ancient Chinese mathematics direction of the history of science and technology in our mathematics department, which does not recruit students all year round. ”

Uncle Ge pouted: "We are still called unpopular? I feel that you have been busy picking up girls and speculating in stocks for four years in college, and you haven't gone to other faculties, right? Let me talk about a few really unpopular ones, one is the African Institute of African Studies for the protection and research of endangered African languages, the other is the direction of paleoecology of the Department of Biology, and the other is the Jurchen language and writing direction of the Institute of Ethnic Paleography. In particular, the last one, it is said that there are no more than one number of scholars in the country who can master the Jurchen script, and they are all students of that professor. The professor is already over 80 years old, recruits students every year, can't recruit people every year, and dislikes students at every turn for not having talent and impure motives, and often it takes seven or eight years to barely recruit a satisfactory student. The professor's mantra was 'I don't dare to die, because as soon as I die, the whole discipline will be gone'. When we were in college, one of the professor's students had graduated and was going to teach at Lingnan University, and the old professor was very happy and said, 'From now on, there are people south of the Yangtze River who can read Jurchen script.'" Think about it, how unpopular is that?"

Chen Xuan felt justified: "I have been busy speculating in stocks for four years in college, as for the pickle girl, are you promoting me, right? Who doesn't know that the ratio of men to women in Jingshi University is five to one, and a young man like me who wants to have no family background, talent or talent, and no appearance will have a girlfriend?" But my opinion should be very similar, that is, if Miss Huang wants to come to Jingshi University for graduate school, as long as she chooses the right major, it will not be too difficult. ”

Huang Tongyuan was obviously moved, and the expressions on her face were complicated for a while, and even a teenager like Jiang Shuiyuan, who was not deeply involved in the world, could see that she was fighting fiercely in her heart. Ge Juntian and Chen Xuan were also very knowledgeable and did not speak. The four of them silently walked across the wind and rain bridge, and a playground far exceeding the area of the standard stadium appeared in front of them.

In the afternoon, the warm sun is shining, and many people are exercising. Huang Tongyuan also suddenly came to his senses, realized that he was a little out of shape, and said slightly apologetically: "I am really from a prestigious school, and I feel that even I, a teacher student, have a high level and a refreshing view of the high theory of higher education! What does Mr. Chen mean by 'doctoral supervisor'?"

"I would like to make a point of making it clear that I have not been to graduate school, let alone a PhD, and all of these ideas come from what our teachers teach in the classroom. If there is any misunderstanding, please correct Ms. Huang. Chen Xuan humbly said a few words before he continued: "It is said that those who can successfully obtain a master's degree basically do not have much problem in researching problems and exploring new knowledge.

It is to go further and more steadily under the guidance of the mentor, to aim at the big topics as much as possible, and to take as few unjust paths as possible, which requires the mentor himself to have an excellent vision and the temperament of a grandmaster. On the other hand, academics are also rivers and lakes, and famous tutors are like the heads of famous schools, not only rich in contacts and many disciples, but also with a large number of academic resources in their hands——"

"Academic resources?" Jiang Shuiyuan heard a new word.

Uncle Ge was kind once, and took the initiative to help solve his doubts: "Academic resources are not a very standardized term, but the meaning is very clear, that is, all aspects of resources involved in academic research, such as academic material resources. To do learning, you must first possess a wealth of raw materials, otherwise it is difficult to make leading results. Just like the world's academic institutions that study oracle bones, no matter how high the level is, it can't compare to Jingshi University, the reason is very simple, more than 99% of the oracle bones in the world are stored in the Jiatianxia Museum, which has basically been gnawed by school teachers. No matter how much others study, they will just follow in the footsteps of others and fill in the gaps, so how can they talk about surpassing them?"

Jiang Shuiyuan was puzzled: "Don't they all say that 'academia is the public instrument of the world'?"

Uncle Ge said angrily: "Pedantic! Why did Chen Xuan just say that 'academia is also rivers and lakes'? Because where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and academia is no exception. Even the famous Sir Newton was not exempt from the vulgar and fought with Leibniz for the right to invent calculus, not to mention others? If all the scholars who study the sciences have a public heart, they are afraid that mankind would have flown out of the solar system hundreds of years earlier! For example, the same hot issue is often studied by many scientific research institutions in the world at the same time, and the progress is roughly the same. If you are an unknown researcher, even if you make any breakthrough and write a paper and send it to a journal, the magazine may not pay attention to it, or even not publish it for you; even if he thinks it is important, out of prudence, send it to a few reviewers for comments, and then arrange the layout when the feedback comes back, and delay you for a few months, maybe by then someone else's research results will be published earlier. What if your supervisor is the editor-in-chief or associate editor of a certain journal or journal? As long as he thinks there is no problem, he can publish it directly, and it is easy to take the lead! There have even been academic misconduct in the past when the tutor found that a certain paper was very good, and asked the students to rewrite one article in a different way of thinking and submit it to another journal for publication first!

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For example, when looking for a job, your tutor is very famous and powerful, and he can easily get a teaching position for you; if your tutor is ordinary, you can only fend for yourself." For example, when applying for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, there are so many scientific researchers in the country, and there must be many similar topics, so why don't you give it to him? Mentor is a very important factor, even a decisive factor. Therefore, if a doctor chooses a supervisor, it is equivalent to finding a good coach and a good backer on the road of life. It is said that a girl getting married and finding a good husband is a second reincarnation, and I can see that it is almost the same for a man to study for a doctorate and find a good mentor!"

Jiang Shuiyuan sighed: "I thought the university was a spotless ivory tower, it turns out that there are so many cats in it!"

Ge Juntian hurriedly replied: "Although there are so many cats in the university, compared to society, the university is still pure, after all, intellectuals have their own ethics and bottom line. Compared with other universities, Jingshi University is undoubtedly the purest, because it does not have to fight, and others will not fight with it. Even if you have a peaceful mind and don't want to be above others, stay in Jingshi University, at least ensure that others don't dare to bully you. This kind of freedom of entry and retreat is difficult for society and other schools to give!"