What is Lu Zhou doing now?

That, of course, is sleeping.

After staying up all night, the phone was already out of battery, and it was seven o'clock in the morning when I returned to the dormitory.

When Lu Zhou woke up, it was already afternoon, and the bedroom was empty.

Feeling the hunger in his belly, he rubbed his sleepy eyes, climbed down the ladder with Hatche, went to the balcony to wash up, then put on his clothes and went downstairs to the cafeteria.

Ordered a bowl of fried rice with soy milk, sat in a remote corner and ate, Lu Zhou took out his mobile phone and was about to swipe the circle of friends for a while.

As a result, when I opened my mobile phone, I found that Professor Tang had made more than a dozen calls to him from the landline in the office.

"Could it be that the paper has been revised? This...... You don't have to make so many phone calls. ”

Moved in his heart, Lu Zhou solved the dinner with three times and divided by two, quickly took the dishes and chopsticks to the wreckage car, and rushed to the direction of the laboratory building non-stop.

……

"I can't get through to your phone call for a day, what are you kid doing all day long?" Sitting behind the desk, Professor Tang first criticized Lu Zhou.

"That, the phone is out of battery and I forgot to turn it on." Lu Zhou scratched the back of his head.

He didn't plan to tell the professor about his part-time job, first, because the school didn't allow first-year students to stay home at night, and second, because he didn't want it to reach the counselor, and finally to his father's ears, making his family worry about him.

Fortunately, Lao Tang didn't get to the bottom of it, took off the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, pulled the USB flash drive from his notebook, and put it on the table: "Your paper is good, there are not many parts that need to be revised, so I won't be cheeky to let you add my name to the title of the book." ”

"How's that going to work? Without your guidance—"

Tang Zhiwei raised his hand and interrupted Lu Zhou's words: "Okay, I'll have the final say, I've read your paper, if that bit of academic discussion can also meet the standard of co-signature, then wouldn't the paper signed by my Tang Zhiwei name be thousands?" Teaching is my duty, and I don't care what other professors are in, but this bad atmosphere can't start with me. If you really think that I have done you a great favor, there is no need to repay me in this way, just help me do something. ”

To be honest, just a SCI, to the extent of Tang Zhiwei, it is not uncommon. For Lu Zhou, an independently published paper is precious. Signing his own name may give his manuscript some preferential treatment, but it is not necessarily a good thing for him.

Lu Zhou said sincerely: "If there is anything that can help you, please do not hesitate to ask." ”

"Hehe, it's not a big deal, don't worry, it's only good for you, there's no harm." Tang Zhiwei said slowly, "In September, the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition, our institute is going to join hands with the Software Institute to pull a regular army out, I discussed it with you, Director Lu, and decided that it was you." ”

National Mathematical Contest in Modeling?

Lu Zhou was slightly surprised in his heart.

He has heard of this thing, and it is said that the gold content of national awards is quite high, so high that the HR of some companies will get your resume, and even look at your resume twice because of this award.

It's just that......

He had only heard of the legendary Mathematical Modeling Competition.

It's mid-June now, and there are only three months left until the end of September.

Three months to prepare, is it really okay?

Lu Zhou asked in a low voice, "Can I go back and think about it?" ”

Professor Tang raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand and pressed it on the USB flash drive: "What else are you thinking about?" Such a great opportunity that you still want to consider? Okay, you go back and think about it now, and I'll put this USB flash drive here first, and I'll come back and get it when you're done thinking about it! ”

Looking at Old Tang's unreasonable appearance, Lu Zhou couldn't help but laugh and said: "But Professor Tang, I haven't participated in this kind of competition at all, you asked me to participate on behalf of the academy, if I cheat you......"

It's no problem to participate......

But I don't want to take the blame if I lose!

"I'm not worried, what are you afraid of?" Tang Zhiwei snorted, paused for a moment, and then continued in a soothing tone, "Don't think about this competition too hard, just rest assured and bold, with your ability, it is absolutely enough, I can be sure of this." ”

Professor Tang has said this point, if he doesn't agree, it will be too ignorant.

In fact, if you think about it, participating in such a competition will definitely be beneficial and harmless to yourself. The only factor that makes Lu Zhou hesitate is nothing more than one, that is, he is worried that the competition training may delay his part-time job and the progress of completing the system tasks.

In the summer vacation, he already plans to stay in school and brush up the level of the system as soon as possible, at least to brush up the mathematics to LV1, or the other subjects will be zero, which is really uncomfortable. In addition to brushing tasks, the rest of the time is part-time, after all, not only the expenses in school during the summer vacation, but also the living expenses after the start of the next semester.

As if seeing through Lu Zhou's mind of the money fan, Professor Tang smiled and said slowly: "Although there is no prize money in the Mathematical Modeling Competition, our school has rewards. The team that can get the first national team not only has a bonus of 10,000 yuan, but also has priority in the scholarship. ”

"Professor Tang, I've thought it through, please let me represent the department!" Lu Zhou said with a serious face.

Professor Tang stifled a smile, put the thermos cup on the table, and waved his hand, "I'll report that name to you, you come here on Saturday and meet your teammates." That's all, don't forget. ”

"Yes!" Lu Zhou said with high morale.

10,000 Dollars Bonus! If the three of them divide it equally, it will be more than 3,000! plus the national scholarship of 8,000 yuan, which adds up to tens of thousands of yuan.

It may not be a big deal for a student with good family conditions, but for Lu Zhou, who only has 3,000 yuan on the card, it is undoubtedly a huge amount of money!

After thanking Professor Tang again, Lu Zhou returned to the dormitory with a USB flash drive.

At this time, it was already a little dark, except for Liu Rui who was still reviewing a few points in the classroom, Shi Shang and Huang Guangming had already returned, and they were sitting in front of the computer at the moment and playing a group nervously.

Although he also wanted to join them to relax, Lu Zhou, who thought that he still had something to do, finally gave up this fleeting thought, carried the notebook to the bed, connected to the wifi in the bedroom, and prepared to upload the paper.

After some struggle, he finally chose the journal "Theoretical and Applied Mathematics Letters", an organ of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, as the submission target.

As for the reason, it is naturally because it can save a lot of page fees.

But on the other hand, he may have to wait in line for a while.

opened the webpage, filled in the author's information and email, and it took about ten minutes to get these miscellaneous things, and Lu Zhou finally reached the last step, clicking to upload the paper.

The status says "Submitted-to-Editoria-Office", which means that the manuscript has been sent to the editor's office, followed by a long wait for a review editor to see his little transparent manuscript......

Stretching, Lu Zhou was about to lie on the bed for a while, when suddenly, the mobile phone vibrated slightly.

I thought it was the senior sister named Chen Yushan who had a math problem to ask herself, but when I unlocked the screen, I saw that it was an email.

The moment he saw the email title, Lu Zhou was stunned.

He almost suspected that he had read it wrong, and couldn't help but whisper silently.

“…… How can it be? ”

It's a copyright release agreement from the other side of the Pacific!

In other words, his submission has entered the so-called "proof" process!

Although the rules vary from journal to journal, most of them send a license agreement after the manuscript is accepted, and the process can take anywhere from one day to two weeks.

In other words, his manuscript was cut in an instant, and it was presented directly to the journal editor's computer......

Could this also be the power of the system?

Lu Zhou swallowed and foamed, opened the mailbox on the computer, downloaded the agreement in the email, signed the authorization agreement as required, and sent the electronic file back to the address given in the email.

After waiting for about five minutes, he refreshed the page where he had submitted.

【Under-Review】！

Lu Zhou felt his heart beating a little hard.

This means that his article has passed the formatting review of the technical editors and will soon be reviewed by a professional academic editor, which is the so-called external review!

Most people will get stuck in the technical editor for the first time they submit their manuscript a few times, but because Old Tang helped him revise his paper, he seems to have passed this level at one time. As for the subsequent external review, it will be the most rigorous and lengthy process in the entire SCI submission.

Because under normal circumstances, academic editors themselves are also busy researchers, and review is unpaid work and requires a lot of energy, so when to contribute to the academic community for free depends on the mood of the reviewer. If you encounter a more grinding or busy, you will not be exaggerated to get stuck in the "UR" link for a month or two!

After waiting for about five minutes, Lu Zhou refreshed the webpage again.

This time, there was no change in the status of the manuscript.

For some reason, seeing this scene, Lu Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the power of the system destroyed his common sense to a certain extent, it seems to have returned to the realm of common sense in the most critical place. It's impossible for an academic editor to keep an eye on his or her mailbox for this kind of unpaid work.

It seems that the system cannot manipulate a person's behavior, although it seems to have some mysterious force to make his manuscript cut within the rules, and perhaps make his manuscript appear in the first line of the academic editor's email forever, but there are still certain constraints in this force.

As for what this factor is, Lu Zhou can't be sure for the time being, but no matter what, it's a good thing.

It would be terrible if the system was really powerful enough to dictate a person's behavior.

Although he enjoys the knowledge and convenience brought to him by the system, he does not want to become a puppet of the system one day. Freedom is priceless, even in times of need, he believes.

Of course, it would be nice if the final part of the UR could be completed before the score test......

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(Thanks to Eddy1414's leader for the reward!! ）