There was no risk of meeting his former boss at the meeting, and Qi Min was much more relieved.

Although Qi Min's doctoral boss is actually a good person, even if her article was rejected N times, she was not allowed to graduate, and even rubbed someone else's article for her in order to graduate. However, this may also be because Qi Min did not make any particularly commendable results when she was studying for a doctorate, and she was not a very hard-working type, and her former boss felt that it was useless to keep her in her own laboratory, so it was better to let her graduate normally and return to China normally.

In recent years, it has become that excellent doctoral students are often likely to be stuck, while ordinary people can mostly graduate normally as long as they do not make any serious mistakes. In fact, this is the same as the grassroots level of enterprises and institutions, ordinary people who should be promoted have been promoted, and particularly capable people will be left in front-line positions.

However, the important work is often done during the PhD study or after the PhD. If nothing important is made during this period, then I am afraid that I can only go to an ordinary school to be a PI, such as Qi Min now. At least in China, the distribution of scientific research resources among many universities is so uneven, and the name of the school will also affect the funding of the research group, so it also leads to the fact that most of the first-class results are produced in first-class schools, and most of the research groups in second-rate schools can only produce second-rate results.

Qi Min, the little PI of a second-rate school, can continue to do the topics brought by her from a first-class school with a doctorate, which can actually be regarded as an opportunity.

IT'S JUST THAT IF SHE CAN'T DO IT IN TWO OR THREE YEARS, AND THE LABORATORY HAS NOT ACCUMULATED EXPERIENCE IN DOING MICROBIAL EXPERIMENTS, THEN I AM AFRAID THAT SHE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMPLETE HER NEW SOIL MICROBIAL ANALYSIS PROJECT IN THE REMAINING TWO YEARS, AND IT IS ESTIMATED THAT TENURE MAY BE BLIND.

Therefore, there are pros and cons to doing first-class projects, the advantage is that you can do something really valuable, and you can use it to post a few water articles, and the disadvantage is that if you can't do it or make it to verify that the assumption is wrong, you may not even have to post a water article.

Fortunately, Qi Min has now been able to use 256×256×256 miniature brain-like bodies to do machine learning tests, and the results of the tests are quite positive. If animal experiments really can't be done, she only posts the results of machine learning and lowers the article a few grades. It's just that she is now participating in this international conference and seeing the first-class research reports of high-level research groups in the academic world, and she can't help but feel unwilling to downgrade such things.

The more I listened to the big guy's report, the more aggrieved I became, and I couldn't help but cause the torture of my inner soul: Why didn't I think of such an ingenious method? Why doesn't our group have such a good project? Why can't our faculty provide the XX equipment that is very expensive but super easy to use, and can save time and preempt others to post articles? It's really more popular than people.

The PI from a leading university was inspired by the reports of the bigwigs and came up with a new idea when he came home from lunch. And for the little PI from a second-rate school in a third world country who has no money and no resources, after listening to it, there is only envy left.

Qi Min listened to the last report with all kinds of envy. After returning to the hotel, she thought about it for a long time, and felt that her academic future was probably like this, but the matter of personal relationships had to be resolved.

Lying on the bed in the hotel room and thinking for a long time, how should she see Anton? How she went to see her is another matter, first of all, Anton must be willing to see her. In all fairness, if it was Anton's mistake that caused Mimi to be permanently injured, then Qi Min estimated that he would be so angry that he would have stabbed him at that time. Anton didn't retaliate against her, and Qi Min felt that he was already very restrained. And it has been more than half a year since she returned to China, and she has not had a video call with Mimi on Skype once, which shows that Anton probably doesn't want Mimi to see her again.

If he had told Anton that she was here, he probably wouldn't have come to see her. And Qi Min didn't know where to find him, after all, he was going to leave by plane at night, and Anton should be able to get off work at night when he delivered takeaways, and he might not be able to go home immediately after work. What's more, Qi Min doesn't know if they have moved, so I'm afraid there will be nothing to gain from rashly looking for them.

But she thought about it carefully, Anton should deliver food again now, and if she ordered a takeaway, wouldn't he have to come over? But it can't be Qi Min himself, Anton can hear her accent even if he can't hear her voice. Therefore, someone should be found to order takeout for her.

Qi Min thought about it for a while, in fact, it is easy to find people who order takeout. They came with a lot of young PIs this time, because they are all peers with little seniority, and they are also easy to talk. Living next door to Qi Min is a young man named Zhang Zhiyong, a young man named Zhang Zhiyong, who just arrived at the chemistry department of China Technical University last year. Qi Min remembers his name very clearly, because his "Zhiyong" is not the "Zhiyong" of "Zhiyong Shuangquan", but the meaning of "Zhiru Quanyong". Probably because of this good name, this top student in the chemistry department of Top2 University issued SCIENCE at the age of 25, and became a PI after graduating with a doctorate in the second year.

Of course, in terms of age, Qi Min seems to be ahead of his peers. However, she went to school to become a PI without any good articles, which is not very beneficial from the perspective of career development. But no matter what, she and Zhang Zhiyong are also the same kind of people when rounded, so they chatted well along the way.

Now let Zhang Zhiyong help her order a takeout, it should be okay, right? And if it was a male voice on the phone, even if there was a Chinese accent, Anton would definitely not think of her.

So Qi Min went out of the room and knocked on the door of Zhang Zhiyong's room.

The door opened after a while, and Zhang Zhiyong had already changed the formal clothes he wore when he was attending the meeting into casual clothes: "Qi Min, what's wrong?" ”

"Zhiyong, can your phone work in the United States?" Qi Min asked.

"I used to have a SIM card in the United States, and it should still work." Zhang Zhiyong asked, "Who are you going to call?" ”

"Hmm...... I want to order a takeout. Qi Min said with some hesitation, "To be precise...... I want you to order a takeout for me. ”

"Takeout?" Zhang Zhiyong is a little strange, but this is just a trivial matter, and there is no need to refuse, "Where do you order takeout?" ”

Qi Min took out the note she had written, which contained the phone number of the Chinese fast food restaurant and the name of the dish she ordered.

Zhang Zhiyong went back inside and took his mobile phone, cut to his US SIM card, and then dialed the phone according to Qi Min's note.

Looks like it was dialed quickly. Zhang Zhiyong ordered the food in English, and then said that it would be delivered to Qi Min's room in the hotel where they were staying, and the contact person left was his own.

"Alright." After hanging up the phone, Zhang Zhiyong said to Qi Min, "They said that it would be delivered in about half an hour." ”

"Thank you so much." Qi Min immediately thanked him.

"There's nothing to thank." Zhang Zhiyong smiled and asked, "But I'm a little curious, why do you want someone else to do it on your behalf?" ”

"Uh...... This is a bit complicated...... "Qi Min was a little embarrassed, and made up a reason on the spot, "That's it...... When I was studying for a PhD here, I often ordered this takeaway, and the payment was monthly, but I returned to China without paying for it in the last month, so I was afraid that they wouldn't deliver it if I ordered it now. ”

This sounded a little reasonable, Zhang Zhiyong just smiled: "Then you hurry up and settle the meal money for others this time." ”