Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Princeton's dormitory is downstairs.

A silver-white sedan appeared around the corner and stopped at the front door as the lights flashed.

Qin Yue, who turned his hand and got out of the car key, sat in the driver's seat and glanced beside him and said.

“Here we are.”

Unbuckling her seat belt, Xiaotong politely thanked her and said, "Thank you for picking me up. ”

Qin Yue smiled and said casually: “You're welcome, do you want me to send your luggage? ”

When he was studying in Princeton, he was well taken care of by the Ark, and now it's his turn to repay the mentor. At least in his opinion, this little thing has no teeth at all, and it's all he should do.

However, only a little too much resembles her brother, who is reluctant to bother others with his own business. Therefore, after hearing Qin Yue's offer to help move his luggage, Xiaotong gently declined without even considering it.

“No, I'll do the little thing myself. ”

I didn't insist on helping. Qin Yue nodded to the bottom: “Okay, then I won't bother you. If there's anything I need help with, let me know. ”

“Okay, I'll go first. ”

“Walk slowly. ”

After saying goodbye to the old brother's former student, Professor Qin, who is now a professor in Princeton, Xiaotong first went to the boarding house to collect the keys, then stomped on the stairs and quickly went upstairs with a suitcase containing nothing.

She applied for this student apartment online, all kinds of furniture are fully furnished and basically carry a bag to stay in.

After staying in the room, Xiaotong spent about two hours simply packing up his room and then took his information to Nassau Hall, the administrative building in Princeton, not far from here, to complete the enrollment process.

She's not really a stranger to Princeton, or even more familiar with it.

Years ago, it was probably the summer vacation that she had just completed her college entrance exam, and she had stayed here for two months, until the end of the summer vacation to report to Jinda.

She also remembered her brother, who was a professor at Princeton, and a little assistant who looked cute, spoke softly, and was probably much older than her.

Just because the assistant was too scared of life, she tried several times to make a proactive attack without successfully building a deep friendship with her.

“I don't know if she's still here. ”

After completing the entrance formalities, Xiaotong returned to the apartment, resting on a soft bed and comfortably stretching his lazy waist.

“If it's still there, I wish I could make friends with her... but by the way, she probably doesn't know me anymore? After all these years. ”

The exhaustion of the journey gradually hit the brain, leaving only a steady breath in the room shortly after.

After almost a full day on the plane and another ride, I can finally get some sleep on the bed of Zhengzi.

Thinking about the future of campus life, this night she slept extraordinarily well and didn't get out of bed until 6: 00 or 7: 00 the next morning...

Looking at a new page of calendars in her phone, she went to the bathroom to wash her little toilet, turned on her computer and sent an email to her future mentor, Professor Krugman.

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

“Is Professor Princeton so efficient? ”

I was a little surprised to open this email, and she was ready to report back to her mentor in two days, and I didn't expect to hear back from her in less than an hour.

The content of the message is short and can be summarized simply in a few words. I guess that means welcoming her to Princeton and coming to his office whenever she's ready to start her PhD career.

At the same time, a line of the address of his office was attached to the e-mail.

While seriously considering whether to wait two days for my life to settle in before reporting, thinking that I have completed my enrollment registration, it would be better to go to my mentor as soon as possible, and leave a positive impression on my mentor as well.

So, I wrote down the address, and after a quick breakfast, Little Tong simply packed the tableware, changed into fresh clothes and went out.

With her rather good memory and not much effort, she quickly found her mentor Professor Krugman's office at the Economic Court.

And just as she pushed open the office door, a passionate voice came from behind the door, scaring her with little preparation.

“Welcome to Princeton! Little Tong from China, are you used to living here? ”

She jumped half a step backwards like a frightened little rabbit, confirming that this face matched Professor Krugman in the photograph before she set her mind to it and coughed softly.

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

Professor Krugman asked curiously, "Have you lived for a month? But I remember you were an undergraduate at Jinling University, an M.A. at Oxford University... an exchange student? ”

“Uh, not really... overseas family visits?” I didn't expect the mentor to make his investigation so clear, and Xiaotong didn't know if he should be flattered or surprised for a while.

“Oh," Professor Krugman smiled with a sudden look on his face, “then I don't have to worry about you getting lost on campus, a lot of first-time students will encounter this confusion, there are no obvious boundaries between town and school here, it's easy to hang around actually out of school for a long time... Westle, you take this new guy to get acquainted with the work here, I suddenly have a call to answer, I'll leave it to you first. ”

“Good professor.” A skinny, freckled Ph.D. student walked over, pushed a thick frame of glasses over the nose beam, looked slightly disturbed and stretched out his right hand, "Weasle, reading Ph.D. Nice to meet you. ”

“… nice to meet you, Lu Xiaotong. ”

politely shook his hand, Xiaotong said politely.

“Lu Xiaotong, right? Come with me. ”

Weasle nodded, then took Xiaotong to an empty desk located by the window of the office, "This is where you will learn from your work, if you don't understand anything, ask me, or ask Professor Krugman directly… or anyone else in the office, we will try to help you, but most of the time it will be up to you. ”

Xiaotong: “… thank you. ”

“You really should thank me. Yesterday, I was called back from work by the professor to clean up the job, saying that there was a freshman level report.” After a glance at the professor who answered the phone from the office, Weasle shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless expression. “Generally speaking, cleaning up what the previous master had not taken away was the job of a newcomer, at least here we are… but Professor Krugman seems to take you seriously. ”

When I heard that I accidentally caused so much trouble to others, Xiaotong said with some embarrassment: “Please tell me that I can do this myself in the future. ”

“It's all right, this little thing has no teeth," he waved carelessly, "Weasle said casually,“ I'll introduce you to the others in the office. ”

“Mmm…”

Just as Weasle was about to introduce the rest of the office to the newcomer, the office door opened again and Professor Krugman, who had gone out earlier to call, came back smiling.

“The call is over! I'll take care of this, Weasle. You go do your own thing. ”

“Uh... okay,” said Weasle, "some stunned boss who was really crazy today, looking at the new enthusiasm and Santa early in the morning, but Weasle didn't dare to ask, just nodded, and said to the new guy," I'll take care of the paper first... I'll introduce you later. ”

“Well, trouble. ”

A little forced to light his head on this brother, Xiaotong then looked at Professor Krugman with a passionate smile on his face, a little unclear about the situation.

Is this a special welcome ceremony for Princeton?

How come I haven't heard from you at all...

With a smile on his face, Professor Krugman looked at Xiaotong and asked gently.

“I've read your thesis many times, and it's remarkable, and although there are a few flaws in the theory, it's pretty hard to write a thesis like this at your age, even in places like Princeton. ”

Clearing his voice, he continued.

“Now that you have some theoretical knowledge, I will focus more on developing your abilities in other areas… Speaking of which academic conferences have you attended before, Tin? ”

Xiaotong: “I've been there with my mentor… but I haven't published an article on it. ”

Krugman touched his beard and thought, “Is this a top-level meeting? ”

Xiaotong said with embarrassment: “Not yet...”

Unfortunately, her former mentor, Professor Foster, was not a particularly well-known bull in the field of macroeconomics, and most of the opportunities offered to her were not on the academic side, but focused mainly on internships, as were her brothers and sisters.

At that time, Xiaotong had not made up his mind to move to academia, so he did not pay particular attention to the more famous top-level meetings of the profession, but only followed the mentors to a few more general meetings.

“Never been there? That's perfect! ”

Not at all concerned about Xiaotong's previous experience of not attending the summit, Professor Krugman's eyes lit up, as if he thought of something wonderful and seemed to smile at the shot, and went on to say: “Next week there is an exchange meeting on macroeconomics directions in Shanghai. Attending the summit will be important academic qualifications, even if you don't publish articles on it, it will be very rewarding for you to hear about it, and there are some academic awards for young scholars as well as PHD and master's. If you have not attended the summit before, you should come with me to meet the world. ”

Almost as soon as this phrase is spoken.

Xiaotong noticed that all the doctors and master's students in the office, including the brother named Westle, had obvious envy in their eyes.

As a Nobel Prize scholar who had pioneered an era of macroeconomics bulls, Professor Krugman usually attended meetings and rarely took students with him unless he attached particular importance to them or the student had just published an article at the meeting.

And this guy...

Less than a day after reporting, even less than an hour after walking into this office, he has been treated so “VIP"...

This is so fucking enviable!

Feeling uncomfortable with these sights, Xiaotong exclaimed with some embarrassment.

“But... I'm not ready at all, or you can take someone else...”

“It's okay! It's just a long story from the past, you don't have to prepare," Professor Krugman continued without hesitation, interrupting Xiaotong's words. "One day you'll have to publish an article at such a top-level meeting, and now familiarizing yourself with it, even if it's just familiar with the process of the next meeting, will go a long way towards your future academic journey! ”

Hearing the mentor say that, Xiaotong can't say a word of deduction for a while.

She certainly doesn't want to miss this opportunity.

The only thing that gave her a headache was that she had just flown over from Shanghai. If she followed her mentor to this meeting, it would mean that she would fly back...

When I think about it, I have to toss in the sky for more than 20 hours. For a moment, the whole person is bad...

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I'll try to explode to the 20th. It's too cruel for a QAQ.