Downstairs in Princeton's dormitories.

A silver-white sedan appeared around the corner, flickered its headlights and stopped at the front entrance.

Stretching out his hand and turning the car key, Qin Yue, who was sitting in the driver's seat, glanced to the side and said.

"Here we are."

Unbuckled the seat belt, Xiaotong thanked him politely and said, "Thank you for picking me up." ”

Qin Yue smiled and said casually, "You're welcome, do you need me to help you send your luggage?" ”

When he was studying at Princeton, he was taken care of by Lu Zhou, and now it was finally his turn to repay his mentor's kindness. At least in his opinion, this little thing is not important at all, it is all he should do.

However, there is only one thing that Xiaotong is too similar to her brother, and that is that she is unwilling to trouble others with her own affairs. Therefore, after hearing Qin Yue's offer to help carry luggage, Xiaotong almost didn't think about it, so he politely declined.

"No need, I'll do this little thing myself."

didn't insist on helping, Qin Yue nodded, "Okay, then I won't go up and bother, if there is anything you need help with, tell me." ”

"Okay, then I'll go first."

"Walk slowly."

After saying goodbye to Professor Qin, a former student of the old brother and now teaching at Princeton, Xiaotong first went to the dormitory manager to get the key, and then stammered the stairs and carried the suitcase that didn't contain many things upstairs.

She applied for this student apartment online, and it is fully furnished, and she can basically move in with her bag.

After checking into the room, Xiaotong spent about two hours to simply clean up the room, and then took his own information and went to Nassau Hall, which is the administrative building of Princeton, not far from here, to go through the admission procedures.

She is actually not unfamiliar with Princeton, and she can even be said to be more familiar with it.

A few years ago, it was probably the summer vacation when she had just finished the college entrance examination, and she used to live here for two months, and she didn't go back until the end of the summer vacation to report to Jinda.

She still vaguely remembered that the old brother who was a professor at Princeton at the time, and a little assistant who looked very cute, spoke softly, and was probably not much older than her.

It's just that because the little assistant is too afraid of life, she tried to take the initiative several times, but she didn't succeed in establishing a deep friendship with her.

"I don't know if she's still there."

Xiaotong, who returned to the apartment after completing the enrollment procedures, leaned on the soft bed and stretched comfortably.

"If only I could make friends with her if I were still here...... But speaking of which, she probably doesn't even know me, does she? After all, so many years. ”

The exhaustion of running all the way gradually hit the brain, and it didn't take long for the room to be filled with the sound of steady breathing.

After almost a full day on the plane and all the way to the car, I can finally sleep well in my bed.

Thinking about her future campus life, she slept very soundly this night, and it was not until six or seven o'clock the next morning that she got up from bed yawning......

Looking at the calendar that had opened a new page on her phone, Xiaotong went to the bathroom to wash up, turned on the computer and sent an email to her future supervisor, Professor Krugman.

Almost as soon as she prepared breakfast for herself, a reply flew into her mailbox.

"Are Princeton professors so efficient?"

A little surprised, she opened the email, she was ready to report to her mentor in two days, but she didn't expect to receive a reply in less than an hour.

The content of the email is short and can be summarized in a few sentences. Roughly speaking, she was welcome to choose Princeton, and if she was ready to start her Ph.D. career, she could come to his office at any time to report.

At the same time, the email included a line of his office address.

Although I also seriously considered whether to wait for my life to settle down in two days before reporting, I thought that I had already completed the enrollment registration, so it was better to meet the tutor as soon as possible, and by the way, I also left a positive impression on the tutor.

So, he wrote down the address of the line, and Xiaotong, who hurriedly finished breakfast, simply packed up the tableware, changed into fresh and clean clothes and went out.

With her fairly good memory, and without much effort, she quickly found the office of her supervisor, Professor Krugman, in the School of Economics.

And just as she pushed open the office door, an enthusiastic voice came from behind the door, almost startling her unprepared.

"Welcome to Princeton! Xiaotong, a student from Huaguo, are you still used to living here? ”

She jumped back half a step like a frightened bunny, and after confirming that the face was consistent with Professor Krugman in the photo, she calmed down and coughed lightly.

“…… I've lived here for a month before, and it's not the first time I've studied abroad, so I'm pretty used to it. ”

Professor Krugman asked curiously, "Stayed for a month?" But I remember that you were a bachelor's degree at Jinling University and a master's degree at Oxford University...... Is it an exchange student? ”

"Well, don't count...... Visiting family overseas? I didn't expect the mentor to investigate himself so clearly, and Xiaotong didn't know for a while that she should be flattered, but she was surprised.

"Oh," Professor Krugman smiled heartily with a blank expression on his face, "Then I don't think I have to worry about you getting lost on campus, many first-time students will encounter this confusion, there is no clear boundary between the town and the school here, and it is easy to wander around and actually go far out of the school...... Wesel, you take this newcomer to familiarize yourself with the work here, and I suddenly have a call to answer, and I'll leave it to you first. ”

"Okay professor." A thin-looking doctoral student with some freckles on his face walked over, pushed the thick-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and looked at Xiao Tong, who was a little cramped and uneasy, and stretched out his right hand, "Wisel, Ph.D. student, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

“…… Nice to meet you, Lu Xiaotong. ”

Shaking his hand politely, Xiao Tong said solemnly.

"Lu Xiaotong, is it? Come with me. ”

Wissell nodded, and then walked to an empty desk located by the window in the office with Xiaotong, "In the future, this is where you work and study, if there is anything you don't understand, you can ask me, or you can ask Professor Krugman directly...... Or someone else in the office, we'll try to help you, but you're mostly up to yourself. ”

Xiaotong "...... Thank you. ”

"You really should thank me, I was already off work yesterday, and I was called back by the professor to clean up the workstation, saying that there was a freshman level report," Wither shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless expression after glancing at the professor who went out from the office to answer the phone, "Generally speaking, it is the job of newcomers to clean up what the previous master did not take away, at least in our case...... But, Professor Krugman seems to take you very seriously. ”

Hearing that he had inadvertently caused so much trouble to others, Xiao Tong suddenly said with some embarrassment, "Please tell me if there is such a thing in the future, and I can do it myself." ”

"It's okay, it's a trivial matter," Wisel said casually, waving his hand absently, "I'll introduce you to the other people in the office first." ”

"Hmmm......"

Just as Whistle was about to introduce the rest of the office to the freshman, the office door opened again, and Professor Krugman, who had gone out to call earlier, walked back with a smile on his face.

"The call is over! I'll leave it to me, Wisel, and go about your own business. ”

"Uh...... Okay," he was a little stunned that his boss was nervous today, and he looked at a freshman enthusiastically like Santa Claus early in the morning, but Wisel didn't dare to ask more, just nodded, and said to the newcomer, "Then I'll deal with the paper first...... I'll introduce you to it later. ”

"Well, I'm in trouble."

Nodding to the senior brother a little confusedly, Xiao Tong then looked at Professor Krugman with a warm smile on his face, with a question mark on his face, and he didn't understand the situation too much.

Is this some special welcome at Princeton?

Why haven't you heard my brother talk about it at all......

Walking over with a warm smile on his face, Professor Krugman looked at Xiaotong and asked in a gentle tone.

"I have read your dissertation many times, and it is very well written, although there is a little flaw in the theoretical part, but it is not easy to write such a thesis at your age, even in a place like Princeton, such talent is rare."

Clearing his throat, he continued.

"Now that you have mastered certain theoretical knowledge, I will pay more attention to the cultivation of your abilities in other aspects...... Speaking of which, Xiaotong, have you attended any academic conferences before? ”

Xiaotong "went to the tutor ...... However, no articles have been published on it. ”

Krugman touched his beard and asked thoughtfully, "Is it a top-level conference?" ”

Xiaotong said embarrassedly, "I haven't ...... yet."

Unfortunately, her former mentor, Professor Foster, is not a particularly well-known expert in the field of macroeconomics, and most of the opportunities provided to her are not on the academic side, but like her brothers and sisters, they mainly focus on internships in major investment banks.

At that time, Xiaotong had not yet made up his mind to develop in academia, so he did not pay special attention to the more well-known top conferences in his major, but only followed his mentor to a few more general conferences.

"Haven't been? That's just right! ”

Regardless of the fact that Xiao Tong had no previous experience in attending summit meetings, Professor Krugman's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands with a smile as if he had thought of some brilliant idea, and continued, "There will be an exchange conference on macroeconomics in Shanghai next week. Participating in the summit is an important academic qualification, even if you don't publish articles on it, it will be very rewarding for you to listen to it, and there are some academic awards for young scholars and PhDs and masters, if you have no experience in the summit before, just follow me to meet the world. ”

Almost at the moment when this sentence was spoken.

Xiaotong noticed that all the doctoral and master's students in the office, including the senior brother named Wisel, had obvious envy in their eyes when they cast themselves on him.

As a Nobel Prize-winning scholar and a macroeconomics expert who once ushered in an era, Professor Krugman usually attends conferences and rarely brings his students with him, unless it is a student he particularly values or the student happens to have a paper presented at the conference.

And this guy ......

It has been less than a day since the report, and even less than an hour since I walked into this office, and I have been treated like a "VIP......

It's so enviable!

Being so uncomfortable to be looked at by these sights, Xiao Tong excused himself with some embarrassment.

"But...... I'm completely unprepared, or you'd better bring someone else-"

"It's okay! It's just that you don't need to prepare for a long time in the past," interrupting Xiaotong without hesitation, Professor Krugman continued, "One day you will have to publish an article at this kind of top conference, and getting familiar with it now, even if it is just to familiarize yourself with the process of the conference, will be of great help to your future academic path!" ”

Hearing what the tutor said, Xiaotong couldn't say anything for a while.

In fact, she certainly doesn't want to miss such an opportunity.

The only thing that gave her a headache was that she had just flown in from Shanghai, and if she followed her mentor to this meeting, it would mean that she would have to fly back soon......

Thinking that he would have to toss in the sky for more than 20 hours, Xiao Tong instantly felt bad......

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(I'll try to break out until the 20th, it's too cruel for a two-watch beast to keep four watches qaq)

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