Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 136 Professor Watson at MIT
"Damn! Damn, damn, damn!"

A series of English words came out of the old man's mouth, and they were swear words. People who knew him would be surprised if they heard it.

While the foreign old man was cursing in a low voice, Niu Xiaoqiang on the narrow path finally couldn't help shouting: "Who was calling just now? Do you want to help?"

The foreign old man only knew a few simple spoken Chinese, so it was naturally impossible for him to understand Niu Xiaoqiang's yelling with a local accent.He froze for a moment, and said to himself in English: "What is that man shouting?"

As soon as the words were finished, the foreign old man took out a thick English-Chinese dictionary from his backpack as if thinking of something, and quickly flipped through it.

This kind of temporary cramming is obviously not in time for him. Before he could translate what he heard into English, Niu Xiaoqiang on the narrow path whispered: "Maybe I studied too late yesterday and had hallucinations. Wait a minute." When I have time, I need to catch up on a good night's sleep."

After Niu Xiaoqiang finished speaking, he shook his head, turned around, picked up the university mathematics textbooks and continued on his way, and soon disappeared.

"Hello—hello—"

The foreign old man finally realized that it was impossible for him to translate the other party's words. He closed the dictionary and greeted the other party tentatively.Niu Xiaoqiang had already left, how could he hear him?
The foreign old man yelled for a while and no one answered, so he couldn't help swearing again.Recalling his experience during this period, he felt like crying without tears.

The foreign old man's name is Watson, he is from the United States, more precisely, he is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he is a professor of the Computer Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There are two main purposes for Professor Watson to come to China this time. The first is to inspect the students, and the second is to travel along the way to get a better understanding of this mysterious ancient oriental country.

As the world's top science and engineering university, MIT receives applications from students from all over the world every year.Especially for those popular majors, the admission applications received are piled up like a mountain.

The computer industry is an absolutely popular industry in the West, so there are many students applying for this department.In terms of admissions, MIT fully respects the opinions of professors. They hand over the power of inspection to professors of various departments and let them choose the best students by themselves.

There is a consensus in the circle of MIT professors, and this consensus is mainly for students.

Through years of practical teaching experience, the professors give their own judgments on the quality of the students.In their eyes, the first grade is not the students from the United States, nor the students from other western developed countries, but the students from China.

Chinese students have many advantages, for example, they are very diligent and hardworking, they are very rigorous in their work style, they are able to bear hardships and stand hard work, and they are also first-class smart.Which teacher doesn't like such a student?
Of course, Chinese students also have some obvious shortcomings. For example, their thinking is relatively conservative and rigid.

This kind of shortcoming can be improved after being taught. Because of this, the professors of MIT are still very satisfied with Chinese students and want to recruit Chinese students.

The reason why Chinese students are so good is mainly because the entire population of China is more than one billion. Those who can be admitted to universities are basically the proud ones, and those who have the confidence to apply for admission to the world's top universities are even the most favored ones. proud son.

At present, due to the limitation of enrollment quota, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology only recruits no more than [-] students from China every year. If such a few people are selected from the top-notch people, can the quality of the students be bad?
Now China's economic development is relatively backward, and communication is not so smooth. Many students cannot send faxes, let alone afford expensive calls overseas, and can only communicate by letter.

If this is the case, it would be too time-consuming. It may not be possible to complete the enrollment work until the end of MIT's enrollment. Therefore, Professor Watson decided to take a trip to China to inspect those outstanding students who are not economically well-off.

In addition, there is another very crucial reason that contributed to Watson's trip to China.This reason is ridiculous and infuriating.

Just last year, Professor Watson took a fancy to a Chinese student with excellent conditions in many applications. Because he was worried that this student would be taken away by other schools, Professor Watson immediately contacted this student through official channels. The school got in touch.

With the assistance of the Chinese education department, Professor Watson successfully got his wish and snatched the student he valued very much.

But what happened next was a little bit wrong.First of all, he found that the student looked different from the photo.

Generally, Westerners will experience face blindness when they look at Easterners. As long as two people are of the same gender and the difference in appearance is not too big, they will generally not be able to tell who is who.

Professor Watson is different. He has taught some students from the East. After a long time of exposure, he naturally learned the skills to distinguish Orientals.When he found that there was a difference between the student and the photo on the admission application, he couldn't help asking a few questions.As a result, the other party told him that the photo was taken two years ago, and it is normal for there to be differences.

Professor Watson accepts this explanation, that young people are growing and that two years is enough time for many changes in their appearance.

After dispelling this doubt, Professor Watson was relieved.But it didn't take long before he discovered another strange place.According to the student's statement on the admission application, he should have a very good foundation in mathematics, but this is not the case.

Mathematics is the foundation of all science and engineering subjects. As long as you learn mathematics well, your grades in other science and engineering subjects should not be bad.

The basis of computers is also mathematics, so when recruiting students every year, Professor Watson attaches great importance to those applicants with better mathematics scores.

The top math student he was expecting was obviously not right, such as calculus, the other party could indeed do less profound calculus, but as long as the difficulty was raised a little, this student would not be able to do it.

Professor Watson was dumbfounded at the time. Didn't this student say in the application materials that he was a top student in mathematics?And once represented the school to participate in the mathematics league held by Chinese universities, have you won any prizes?According to the Chinese students I have taught in the past, if this is the case, then this student is fully capable of solving more in-depth calculus problems, how could he not be able to solve even slightly difficult ones?

　Thanks to the book friend "Appreciating Flowers and Pinning Jade" for the generous 3000 rewards!bow!Thanks to the book friends "Where is the road to life" and "37033" for their reward and support!bow!Today is still three more!By the way, this foreigner is very important to the protagonist, so there will be more descriptions about him, please be patient, and finally, as always, please collect and recommend tickets, please support, thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)