In October, the summer heat in Wuhan had not completely dissipated, making every outsider who was there sigh that Wuhan truly deserved its reputation as a "furnace city".
In a large classroom in the fifth teaching building of Jiangcheng University, the teacher was lecturing while the students whispered among themselves.
"By the way, why did you choose this course? I've never heard of any of my classmates taking a general elective course ahead of time."
The girl, who looked slightly immature but was still quite pretty, raised an eyebrow and said:
“My sister also studied at Jiangcheng University before. “College Students’ Mental Health” is a typical elective course with many credits and good grades. Basically, as long as you are not absent from roll call once, you can get more than 90 points. The teacher will not deliberately control your GPA. I managed to get the course by choosing it as soon as possible.”
Jiangcheng University implements a credit system. Undergraduates, except for those from Hongyi Academy, need to complete 150 credits to graduate. These 150 credits are divided into required courses for their major, elective courses for their major, required general courses, and elective general courses. Courses like English and Physical Education are required general courses, while "College Students' Mental Health," which Zheng Li and Li Miaomiao are currently listening to, is an elective general course.
Freshmen typically only choose required courses for their major and required general education courses.
"What does 'holding GPA' mean?" Zheng Li felt that the other person knew far more than he did, even though they were both freshmen.
Li Miaomiao said in a low voice, "GPA control means that some teachers only give 20% of students a score of 90 or above. Even if you get 90, the teacher will only give you 89. That's called GPA control. GPA is very useful after graduation for postgraduate recommendation, postgraduate entrance examination or studying abroad. Of course, the main thing is your GPA in your major courses. The GPA in general elective courses is at most a reference."
"However, if you want to apply to top universities, or if you want to get into Tsinghua or Peking University for graduate school, your GPA in general elective courses can be of some use."
"Your math department is alright, there are fewer people studying math and the competition isn't fierce. But the economics and management department has a lot of people, and everyone is a test-taking king. Every credit is very important. I don't want to end up like my sister, still having to retake courses to improve my GPA in my junior year."
"Did you know that if you do well in your sophomore and junior years, you still have a chance to get into the Hongyi Program? The Mathematics Department's Hongyi Program has two fully funded spots to go to Pennsylvania State University every year. Penn State may not be as good as Penn University, but it's a direct PhD program..."
Li Miaomiao loves chatting. In the short three days that she met Zheng Li through a couples' activity, she felt that he was a very good listener and his replies were always just right.
Zheng Li's concluding remarks often impressed her. It was because they got along well that she brought Zheng Li to take the elective course with her.
Li Miaomiao stared straight ahead, pretending to listen attentively, while her mouth moved slightly on the other side as she spoke.
"The School of Mathematical Sciences has very good benefits. About half of the students in the special program are recommended for graduate school. In addition, some students give up their recommendation to go abroad. It can be said that as long as you don't fail any courses, you can be recommended for graduate school. However, if you want to stay at this university and pursue a research career, you should try not to choose a professor who has been away from front-line research for a long time. Purely neglecting students is very painful for people who want to make something of themselves."
"If I weren't so bad at math, I would have studied math as an undergraduate and then switched to finance in graduate school."
"However, I heard that some leaders in the School of Mathematical Sciences send their talented graduate students abroad, ostensibly as a joint training program between China and foreign countries. In reality, they just send you abroad so that foreign professors can choose topics for you to publish papers, and then credit them for those papers."
"Otherwise, how could he publish so many papers in a year? Even professors in their prime at the mathematics department aren't that productive."
"However, this is something that is tacitly understood internally. It is reasonable, legal, and no one will meddle in it."
Li Miaomiao chatted for a long time, sharing gossip about the School of Mathematics she had heard from her sister. Zheng Li usually responded with thoughtful comments. This time, however, Zheng Li didn't respond to her for a long time after she finished speaking.
"Could it be that I brought up the unspoken rules of the mathematics department, and Zheng Li felt he shouldn't say anything to avoid suspicion? He doesn't seem like such a conservative person," Li Miaomiao thought to herself.
She turned her head and saw that Zheng Li was slumped over the table, his head buried between his arms. The veins on his forehead, which wasn't completely submerged in his arms, were bulging, and sweat was constantly dripping down his face.
Li Miaomiao glanced at the two standing air conditioners at the front and back of the classroom with some panic. The buzzing sound of the air conditioners' blowers proved that they were not slacking off, and her body also told her that the indoor temperature was no more than 26 degrees Celsius.
The large classroom is crowded, mostly with young people who like to set the air conditioning to a very low temperature.
But why was Zheng Li covered in sweat and trembling from time to time? It couldn't be from the heat.
"Hey? Are you alright? If you're not feeling well, we can sneak out from the back. The elective course teacher won't bother us."
The wind was calm that day, and meeting Zheng Li was just like making a new friend. The little incident in life couldn't change the dullness and ordinariness of the day.
On this ordinary day, in this classroom, Zheng Li's soul was replaced by Clark, a mage from an unknown dimension.
Clark, a mage of the Holy Mage Alliance, was contributing to his longtime friend's research project on how to create a black hole as he was being promoted to mage. In their latest experiment, they successfully created a black hole.
However, the immense gravitational field inside the black hole prevented them from escaping, rendering their previous preparations useless.
Clark was thankful that his soul had survived, and the soul, wrapped in his memories, entered the body of an ordinary student on an unknown planet.
Trying to match a human body with memories spanning thousands of years and a completely transformed soul is like trying to match a Windows 10 system with an IBM computer with a Pentium processor—the computer would freeze.
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