Chapter 507: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 507: Dining with Wei Qian's Ex-Girlfriend, But It Became an Academic Symposium

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Actually, students at prestigious universities are not much different from ordinary students; they have the same joys, anger, sorrow, and happiness, the same shortcomings and weaknesses, and they are just as crazy about chasing stars.

It's just that they have subtle differences from ordinary students.

Ordinary people chasing stars might chase entertainment stars, like EXO, Huachen Yu, Cai Xukun, and so on; students at prestigious universities are not without those who chase entertainment stars, but they are definitely a tiny minority.

The brightest star in their eyes is either a big shot in academia, like Einstein, like Schrodinger, or at the very least, a godlike figure in competitions like Wei Shen.

As for those entertainment stars who can barely get into college with three hundred points on the gaokao, they really can't enter their eyes.

Maybe they'll listen to their songs or watch their movies, but it's just listening, just watching, nothing more.

When Wang Xiaohua first heard of someone like Wei Shen, he worshipped him immensely and really wanted to see the real person.

He had participated in mathematics competitions and knew exactly how difficult the competition problems were.

Wei Shen actually got a perfect score—was he even human?

You have to know that even on the gaokao math paper, very few people can get a perfect score.

The papers for national-level competitions are dozens or even hundreds of times harder than the gaokao, and he can still get a perfect score!

And it wasn't just one perfect score, but multiple perfect scores!

That's too godly!

You can't not be convinced!

If there's a chance, I must meet such a godly person and humbly ask him about study problems!

After military training ended, classmates in the same class basically all got to know each other.

However, the Homeroom Teacher was never seen; during those days of military training, it was the Counselor leading the whole class around busily.

It was said the Homeroom Teacher was doing academic work abroad and only came back occasionally.

University is worlds apart from high school; the Counselor told everyone: in a four-year undergraduate career, seeing the Homeroom Teacher more than five times is already considered good.

If this were high school, you wouldn't even dare to think about it.

Those who haven't been to university might find this inconceivable, but that's just the fact.

The Homeroom Teacher generally just hangs a sign, comes back at the start of school or the end of the semester to exchange a few words with classmates, nothing more.

University students interact most with professors teaching various subjects, next is the Counselor, then the thesis advisor; as for the Homeroom Teacher, they are practically an existence that may or may not be there.

University classes use a walking class system; some large classes have several classes from a college attending together, and there are no fixed classrooms or fixed seats; whether to attend class depends entirely on self-awareness, no one forces you, as long as you don't fail the final exam.

Of course, sometimes the teacher will call roll; if your name is called and you're not there, it will be recorded once; if you're recorded absent too many times, the teacher might fail you.

Back then, the Zhai Tianlin CNKI scandal hadn't happened yet; general university graduation designs and undergraduate theses weren't reviewed as strictly as they are now, so getting a graduation certificate was still quite easy.

As long as what you produced wasn't too shoddy, it was fine; so some students were very relaxed, even indulgent, getting addicted to games in university, resulting in failing multiple courses.

Even top institutions like Tsinghua and Peking University have students who can't graduate because they failed too many courses.

University learning doesn't emphasize class atmosphere, but it does emphasize dormitory atmosphere.

If the other three people in the dorm are very focused on studying, but you yourself are addicted to games, you'll be very out of place; you'll find playing games boring yourself, and thus be led to study together.

But if the other three roommates are all addicted to games, then even if you want to study, you'll be influenced by them; after all, they play LOL until one or two in the morning every night, making it so you can't even sleep well, so how can you study?

Wang Xiaohua was lucky to have three pretty good roommates.

Although he didn't run in the same circle as the two competition students Wen Lingyun and Wan Zhiyuan, these two brothers were always immersed in learning and research, having a very positive influence on him, even stimulating him, making him not dare to slack off in the slightest, and he worked extremely hard in his studies.

Although Wei Qian wasn't that dedicated to his studies, he didn't play games either; instead, he joined various clubs and did various extracurricular activities in his spare time.

This made Wei Qian the first among the four dorm mates to get a girlfriend.

Not long after military training ended, he was already going out with a female classmate from the same college.

That female classmate was named Yun Shu, she looked quite gentle, and like Wei Qian, she was a member of the Student Union; after getting to know each other and taking a liking to one another, they got together.

After the two officially got together, they also invited Wang Xiaohua and the other three roommates to go out for a meal together.

But during the meal, Wen Lingyun and Wan Zhiyuan talked and talked, and ended up chatting about academic issues, completely ignoring Wei Qian and Yun Shu, this young couple.

And Wang Xiaohua was not good with words; after saying a few dry words of blessing, he didn't say much anymore.

This made Wei Qian a bit embarrassed, and Yun Shu could only sit there reservedly, laughing dryly.

"Wei Qian, your three roommates are quite special!"

Yun Shu said weakly with a laugh.

Wei Qian could only smile bitterly:

"No choice, you don't know; Lingyun and Zhiyuan, these two buddies, even in the dorm they discuss academic issues; I've hardly heard them talk about other topics."

Yun Shu said to Wen Lingyun and Wan Zhiyuan with a laugh:

"You two have the potential to be big shots in academia; who knows, maybe you'll win a Nobel Prize for our country someday!"

Wan Zhiyuan said:

"The Nobel Prize isn't something to consider for now; what needs to be considered now is the issue of chemical batteries. Lingyun and I disagree; I think cars will definitely develop in the direction of electric vehicles in the future, but he thinks they'll develop in the direction of hydrogen energy, and he says electric vehicles actually appeared as early as a hundred years ago and were an eliminated product. Neither of us can convince the other; who do you think is right?"

Wei Qian laughed and said:

"Both have some truth; who knows how things will turn out in the future? The development of the tech tree is full of uncertainty."

Wei Qian's answer was evasive; he didn't want to argue seriously with his two roommates, so he just answered like that.

Yun Shu also chimed in:

"Exactly, there are too many unknowns in the future; no one can be sure; after all, no one can predict the future."

"Xiao Hua, what do you think?" Wan Zhiyuan asked.

They did not hold any prejudice against Wang Xiaohua just because he came from a rural area; when discussing issues, they would also ask Wang Xiaohua for his opinion, after all, brainstorming was what mattered most.

Wan Zhiyuan wanted to specialize in chemical batteries during these four years of university life, hoping to invent a battery with efficient energy storage and safe performance, thereby promoting the development of electric vehicles.

This was the goal he had set for himself now.

And Wen Lingyun felt that electric vehicles were obviously not an easy path; even if an efficient battery were invented, the disposal of used batteries would still be a huge problem.

Wen Lingyun said to Wang Xiaohua:

"Xiao Hua, you should also know that used batteries cause great pollution; if electric cars were to replace fuel cars, the pollution brought by used batteries would probably be far greater than that from gasoline combustion, and the country would certainly not allow such a huge pollution source to appear, am I right? Besides, where does the electricity for so-called electric cars come from? Isn't it from thermal power plants burning coal to generate electricity, then transferred to batteries? The energy consumption during power transmission is a huge waste of energy; the so-called clean energy of batteries is actually not clean at all."

Facing two roommates full of exploration spirit, Wang Xiaohua gave his own opinion after careful consideration.

These days he often stayed in the library, and happened to have flipped through some related books.

The first sentence he spoke was:

"As far as I know, many patents regarding hydrogen energy are on Japan's side..."