The rules of baseball are complicated to say, and simple to say.

Baseball players are certainly just as difficult as any other sport to reach the top, but it's easier just to get started.

The University of Chicago baseball team, which is in the third division of the NCAA, has an overall level that is not much better than that of a complete amateur, but because the players are relatively young, they all have a certain sports foundation, and the coaches are also professional, so the level is still a little bit.

It's certainly not comparable to the NCAA Division 1 teams, but in the third division, it's also a good team.

The main thing is that the University of Chicago has money!

As one of the top 10 universities in the world, the University of Chicago has one of the highest donations in the United States.

Not to mention the tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars in huge donations, just the alumni donations on the annual homecoming day, not old and young.

The United States is also a country of national sports, and anyone who does not have one or two sports hobbies and has not been exposed to a few sports is embarrassed to say that he is an American!

Therefore, although the University of Chicago has voluntarily withdrawn from the ranks of sports powerhouses since World War II due to the size of the campus, the number of students, and the adjustment of the founding policy, the sports on campus are still quite vigorous.

The University of Chicago has sports teams in all of the 23 official sports covered by the NCAA, and it also organizes NCAA competitions.

After learning about the academic system of the University of Chicago, Lip made a study plan for himself, and how to choose the core courses for the first two academic years and what to choose for physical education courses have been planned in advance.

The application report to join the baseball team has already been submitted.

However, the baseball team will be officially recruited, and it will be a few days after the Homecoming Day event.

When Lip was wandering around the campus, he didn't see the baseball stadium and didn't care, anyway, the school's baseball team would definitely have a training and playing field.

After the two-day weekend registration day, the fall semester officially began, and several courses selected by Lip for this semester also officially began to be taught.

Since Monday, Lip has been in full swing and has officially started his college life.

Classes at the University of Chicago generally run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a two-hour lunch break in between, generally two classes in the morning and two classes in the afternoon, and the duration of each class is about 90 minutes.

The specific class time is arranged on the course selection schedule, and which course you take only needs to go to class on time according to the class schedule.

The curriculum of the University of Chicago is generally small, and the number of students in small classes is generally less than 20.

Of course, there are also large classes with no limit on the number of students.

Whether students take small class courses or large class courses depends on their own arrangements, anyway, they must get all the credits of the core courses prescribed by the school in the first two academic years before they can enter the learning stage of professional courses.

Lip had already sold all the textbooks for the core courses, so he could barely keep up with the professor's progress after the course officially began.

In the first semester, Lip didn't take a lot of elective courses, on average, only two classes a day.

Of course, this is not to say that outside of class, Lip can let himself go.

Because of the quarterly system, the duration of each quarter is only ten weeks, which is much shorter than the sixteen weeks of the semester system, so it is still a lot of pressure to complete a course in ten weeks.

Even for a top student like Lip, it is not easy to get satisfactory credits just by studying in class, even if there is a preview of the course.

When a professor gives a lecture, he does not read it out from the textbook at all, but implements the divergent thinking that is customary in Western-style education, and extends from the textbook, and in order to keep up with the rhythm of the professor's teaching, it is necessary to not only study the textbook, but also prepare a lot outside of class.

In addition, according to the course arrangement, the professor will also require students to complete several student papers during the teaching period, and the score of the paper will directly affect the overall evaluation of the course.

Therefore, after the actual start of the course, in addition to the textbooks, Lip also needs to study a lot of course-related books according to the requirements of the professor, which takes up a lot of his extracurricular time.