Although he had already drunk at least five cups of coffee before falling asleep, Qi Min still went to get another cup of coffee as soon as he got up from his chair.

Seeing the computer screen showing that the code had run into the second of her six large cycles, Qi Min thought to herself that the computing power of her school's supercomputer group was really strong enough - she didn't realize that this was due to the fact that she alone occupied nearly half of the school's computing resources at this time.

Glancing at the time in the lower right corner of the screen, it was already half past two in the afternoon. Qi Min found that he had missed not only yesterday's dinner, but also today's breakfast and lunch.

So what to eat? She frowned and glanced at the coffee in the paper cup. The coffee from the coffee machine in the Department of Biology doesn't taste very good.

Let's go eat something normal. Qi Min walked out of the door of the department hall happily, swept a small yellow car and rode to the cafeteria.

When she arrived at the cafeteria, she found that there was no food left at this point in time, only the pancake window was still open. At this time, a boy who liked this baseball shirt was standing in front of the window, as if waiting for his pancakes.

Qi Min walked over and found that he was waiting for cold noodles to be baked, which did not conflict with pancakes.

The uncle at the window asked her, "Classmate, do you eat pancakes or bake cold noodles?" ”

Qi Min didn't correct his mistitlement, but said, "Pancakes...... Please add two eggs. ”

"Eight pieces of five." The pancake seller pressed three times on the credit card machine.

Qi Min took out her newly obtained faculty card from her pocket, and swiped it but it showed "ERROR".

The pancake seller told the very shameful fact: "Classmate, you don't have enough money in your card. ”

I didn't pay much attention to the money left in the card when I drank coffee, and now it turned out that it was not even enough for eight dollars and five......

Qi Min asked embarrassedly: "Can I pay with WeChat?" ”

"The cafeteria can't be used." The pancake seller replied.

"Then if I transfer it to you first-" Qi Min didn't give up.

At this time, the boy who was waiting for the baked cold noodles next to him took the initiative to say: "Why don't I help you pay it first, and then you can transfer it to me on WeChat." ”

"Thank you so much." Qi Min turned his head to look at him, the young man was also good-looking. Sure enough, kind people are born from the heart.

Because the other party helped pay for it, Qi Min followed the boy to an empty table after getting her pancakes.

She put down the pancake and added the boy's WeChat first. His WeChat name is "Hua Ruiming", which looks like his real name. After transferring the money for the pancakes, he took another look at the empty canteen except for the two of them, and chose to sit across from him.

I finally found a teaching position, and I want to get to know other people in this school anyway. Why don't you meet someone who is just as late as she is for lunch?

Qi Min is not self-acquainted, but she can still open her mouth in the face of strangers who borrowed her card: "Hey, classmate? Do you know where to charge your card? ”

"Turn left just after that door goes out." Hua Ruiming swallowed a mouthful of roasted cold noodles, smiled at her and asked, "What, did you just come to school this semester?" ”

"yes." Qi Min chatted smoothly, "And I didn't expect the cafeteria to have nothing else to eat so early." ”

"The cafeteria on the main road of the school is basically empty by one o'clock. The canteen in the peripheral area is better, and the stall is closed at half past one. Hua Ruiming took the initiative to introduce, "Generally, after two o'clock, don't think about eating in the cafeteria, only the pancake and drink window will be open at this time." I came so late today because the lab suddenly lost power at noon and had to redo the experiment. ”

At first glance, he also worked in a laboratory, and he did a separate experiment by himself, so most of them were also majors in biology, chemistry, materials science, etc.

"How could the power in the lab suddenly go out at noon?" Qi Min asked with a smile.

However, the young man who had been doing experiments hard at the beginning of the school year said with a bitter face: "Who knows, I heard that the computer room of the supercomputer was overloaded, causing the entire building to trip." Someone must be running over the data. ”

Qi Min thought about it, she had just seen the allocation of computing resources in supercomputers, and the rest of the people except her were running some short codes that didn't take much time, and it seemed that no one else was particularly consuming computing resources.

Wait, is this the person who caused the whole building to trip? Then she's really sorry.

Qi Min didn't say anything about this, but turned the topic to the major: "Are you from the Department of Chemistry?" ”

"Oh, I'm from the medical department." Hua Ruiming said.

The medical department of the university not only has a clinical major, but also specializes in medical theoretical research, and in fact, it has many things in common with the laboratory of the Department of Biology.

"In this way, our majors are still a little similar." Qi Min smiled and said, "I'm in the biology department, doing bioinformatics. ”

"Is the Biology Hall also out of power?" Hua Ruiming asked jokingly.

"Probably not, after all, it's still far from the supercomputer room." Qi Min shrugged his shoulders and defended himself, "But now that the weather is so hot, the laboratory is prone to power outages, not necessarily because the computer room is overloaded." ”

The two left the cafeteria together after eating. Hua Ruiming found his bicycle parked in the carport outside, while Qi Min was still looking for the little yellow car everywhere.

"You might as well go to the garage over there and buy a bike, it's usually more convenient to ride in school anyway." Hua Ruiming suggested to her.

That's just as well. Qi Min originally thought that she, as the PI of the laboratory, had to be different from those poor students, and should drive to work. But now it seems that she may be poorer than those doctoral students who only get two or three thousand yuan a month, after all, the students can still rely on their parents to support them, and she is really embarrassed to gnaw at the old age anymore.

Qi Min bought a refurbished 28 bar, which only cost more than 300 yuan. She rode back to her office in the biology hall and saw on her computer screen that the code had run into the third loop.

This progress is indeed gratifying.

Qi Min actually wanted to do something that could sell patents, but she had no choice but to continue to study this theoretical topic based on her experience. When she first returned home, she was desperate to make money, and with that money might allow Mimi to receive better treatment – even though the spinal nerve damage was so severe at her level, the prognosis would not be good even with surgery.

Thinking of Mimi, Qi Min couldn't help but open Skype again, and saw that the conversation time with Anton in the list was still stuck eight months ago.

She typed a line into her conversation with Anton: "I've found a teaching position." ”

Then the line was deleted.

What about finding a faculty position? In any case, Mimi can't get back to normal completely, and her current salary is not enough to cover the high cost of the surgery.

Qi Min felt that maybe she had to let go of this heavy burden of guilt and look forward. Now that she has a teaching position and her own lab, everything will be fine.