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If you want to mix in the academic world in the United States, you can only get a doctorate degree that you have just passed the preliminary selection. Starting from the doctorate, you have to accept three semi-finals, and only after passing the threshold of lecturer, assistant professor, and associate professor can you obtain the qualification of full professor, and you can be considered a finalist.

After being shortlisted, they will be tested by various academic journals, publishing groups, IMFs and even members of society before they can win the right to compete for the title of famous professor. As for whether you can defeat heroes from all walks of life and rush to the front line of the academic world, it is determined by insight, chance, and even longevity. Therefore, although the academic community in the United States is full of Nobel Prizes, Clark Medals, and Fields Medals, it is not an easy thing to win such an award if you want to show your talents.

This is Li Jiaming's senior brother Mooney, who told him about the academic circle, but he changed his words and denied the previous statement.

"Ming, the academic world does not focus on the process, only the result. For example, your paper on the misunderstanding of Internet traffic can go all the way to the second round of the e-award because of its originality and guidance for Internet companies. I bet if you've already earned your PhD, it's not a bit difficult to get a dissertation award. ”

Li Jiaming suddenly had a kind of realization that perhaps his academic path would be much easier than he imagined, because he could use a given future to find a basis in the complicated reality.

As long as he can continue to publish weighty papers, there is no need to seek a teaching position like Mooney, and he will rise step by step according to the established channels. Just like the fourth brother, who won the Stevenson Award and his Ph.D., was immediately hired as an assistant professor at Caltech, and entered the formal faculty sequence in one fell swoop, he didn't have to be a postdoctoral fellow, lecturer or anything like that.

This is the so-called 'academia, not about the cultivation, only about the harvest'.

That's right, Mooney, who was tasting wine, raised his glass, but also reminded: "There is another point, the full professors of first-rate universities, although they have a high academic and social status, but they still cannot relax a little.

From academic authorities to researchers and university students, they will put pressure on them. Therefore, they must not only publish papers, book reviews and even monographs frequently to meet the requirements of the academic community, but also be at the forefront of young students to promote the younger students.

If a professor is not able to lead his or her specialty in academia, he will not only be ridiculed by his colleagues, but he will even be hit by salary deductions and so on. ”

Understood, Li Jiaming raised his wine glass and touched it with his senior brother, and whispered, "So the professor asked me to learn from Michael?"

"Good, but not entirely right, at his level, it was already the school begging him to teach. ”

Of course, a master who can start a sect, and a master who is sure to win the Nobel Prize, can be said to be as long as he wants, any university in the world will welcome him.

At the beginning, Li Jiaming wrote applications to more than a dozen professors, and as soon as he received Professor Thomas's reply, he immediately left others behind. In addition to the admiration of his academic ideas, there is also a bit of caution to worship the ironclad Nobel laureate in economics as a teacher. Just like Lao Zhang, who is a Ph.D. of Professor Negroponte, he served as the head of MIT Asia-Pacific liaison as soon as he graduated, and returned to China the following year to serve as the chief representative of the American ISI company in China. In addition to his own good ability, how much does a good mentor make him cheap?

"Mooney, Professor!"

Knowing that, Mooney drained half a glass of whiskey. Academia also talks about factions, this kid has studied with him with a mentor, and it is possible to help him in the future, the tutor's academic level is indeed high, but it is really lacking in interpersonal communication.

Li Jiaming will also understand Mooney's thoughts, there are rivers and lakes where there are people, and the academic world is not an ivory tower. If you want to get along in the academic world, in addition to real talent, you also need connections. In particular, law, history, humanities, economics, ...... Academia, unlike those natural sciences, has a lot of things that can't be quantified, and on the premise that everyone recognizes your academic achievements, networking is very important.

To put it bluntly, if you want to mix well in this circle, real talent and real learning are the first element, and in addition to that, you have to form a gang. In addition to pointing out some things, it is more important for the senior to come to him, so that the two can support and support each other academically in the future. This is important, for example, my mentor, Professor Thomas, who single-handedly created the 'reasonable expectation' school and perfected it into a compulsory theory in business school. If the relationship was better and more people cheered for him, he might have won the Nobel Prize ten years ago, instead of the 'future Nobel laureate' that everyone recognizes.

The two sighed and sighed for a while, and Li Jiaming also remembered the stunned goods of the 'Great Plague', and this time the graduate students of Peking University are estimated to be famous again Sun Shan. It just so happened that Mooney was going to teach at Sloan College, and it was not easy for him to help get the 'Great Plague' to study for a Ph.D., so it shouldn't be a big problem to study for a transitional master's degree, right?

This made Mooney embarrassed, and the span from computer science to economics was large enough.

"No, no, en, I wanted to come to the United States to study after I started a successful business. ”

Li Jiaming, who likes to knock on three poles without dates, hurriedly led the seniors into the study, turned on the computer and clicked on the official website of their 'Dream World' game network and 'e-era' Internet café.

"You see, he joined the 'e-era' before graduating from college and founded the Jinling branch, which has eleven Internet cafes and personal assets of about $2 million. After graduating from university, he went to Shanghai to develop and founded the 'Dream World' game website with his friends and served as the CTO. The online gaming site, which had a peak of more than 1.2 million concurrent users, made more than $30 million in profits last year. ”

Wow, another business genius?

Mooney, who was a little excited, used Li Jiaming's account to play this game with rough graphics for a few minutes, and wondered: "Such a simple game can also make a profit?"

This game bought from Koreans is indeed rough enough, but it can't carry many people who like to play. At the beginning, Zhang Shaolong came to Li Jiaming and said that he wanted to make an online game, but he couldn't write his name, but he told him the characteristics completely.

"Mooney, it's a cultural difference, young Chinese people pay more attention to the presence in the game, rather than the grand story background and the delicacy of the graphics. I think their business vision is very precise, you can see what they introduced, the story background and graphics are more than a cut better than this game, but the profit generated is not even 1/3 of it. ”

Mooney nodded again and again, agreed with Li Jiaming's explanation, and promised: "Okay, I can recommend a tutor for him, but the premise is that he can pass the GRE and his grades are not too bad." ”

Li Jiaming was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "Of course, he has passed the GRE and submitted an application to MIT, you just need to help me pay attention to it." ”

If you have a successful entrepreneurial experience, your grades are not bad, and you want to enter a business school, it is estimated that there is no big problem. No, this EN has been admitted to the college, and even the notice has been sent.

Thinking of this, Mooney said briskly, "Okay, I'll help you pay attention." For the school, an excellent graduate can bring a reputation to the school."

That's good, a lot of things seem difficult, but in the eyes of those who can help, it's just a gesture. With Professor Thomas's student recommendation, coupled with the beautiful resume of 'The Great Plague', it shouldn't be a big problem to go to Sloan College to get a master's degree.

It's a big deal that people study for one year, and he studies for two or three years, just endure a little more hardship. If he really wants to take the path of academics, endure hardships for a few more years, fight for a doctorate, and return to China in the future, he will not be able to enter Peking University to teach?