"Damn! Damn, shit, shit!"

The old man's mouth was full of English words, and it was still a swear word, and if someone who knew him heard it, he would surely be surprised.

When the foreign old man was cursing in a whisper, Niu Xiaoqiang on the sheep intestine trail finally couldn't help but shout: "Who was calling just now?

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

As soon as the words fell, the foreign old man took out a thick English-Chinese dictionary from the backpack he was carrying, and quickly flipped through it.

Before he could translate what he heard into English, Niu Xiaoqiang on the sheep intestine trail muttered in a low voice: "Maybe I studied too late yesterday and hallucinated, and I have to make up for it when I have time." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang shook his head after speaking, turned around and picked up the university's math textbook and continued to hurry, and soon disappeared.

"Hello—Hello—"

The old man finally realized that he was unlikely to be able to translate the other man's words, so he closed the dictionary and tentatively greeted the other man. Niu Xiaoqiang has long since left, where can I hear it?

The foreign old man shouted for a while and no one answered, and he couldn't help but curse again again. Recalling his experience during this time, he felt like crying without tears.

The foreign old man's name is Watson, from the United States, to be precise, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he is a professor in the computer department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Watson's main purpose in coming to China this time is twofold, the first is to inspect the students, and the second is to take a trip to get to know this mysterious ancient oriental country.

As one of the world's top science and engineering universities, MIT receives applications from students from all over the world every year. Especially for those popular majors, the number of applications received is piling up.

The computer industry is an absolutely popular industry in the West, so there are many students who apply for this department. When it comes to admissions, MIT fully respects the opinions of professors, who give the authority to the professors of each department and let them select the best students themselves.

There is a consensus among MIT professors that is primarily student-oriented.

Through years of practical teaching experience, the professors gave their own judgment on the quality of the students. In their eyes, the first class is not students from the United States, nor students from other developed Western countries, but students from China.

Chinese students have many advantages, such as being very diligent, very rigorous, very hard-working, and first-class smart. What teacher doesn't like such a student?

Of course, Chinese students also have some obvious shortcomings, such as relatively conservative and rigid thinking, only studying to the death, not learning and applying, and on the whole are not as open-minded as students in Western countries.

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

The reason why Chinese students are so good is mainly because of the more than one billion people in China, and those who can be admitted to universities are basically the pride of heaven, and those who can have the confidence to submit admission applications to the world's top universities are the pride of the sky.

At present, due to the limitation of enrollment quotas, MIT only recruits no more than 20 students from China every year.

At present, China's economic development is relatively backward, and communication is not so smooth, many students cannot send faxes, and they cannot afford the expensive cost of making transatlantic phone calls, so they can only communicate through letters.

If this is the case, it will be too much time, and it may not be possible to complete the enrollment process by the time MIT closes its enrollment, so Professor Watson decided to come to China to visit the outstanding students who are not in good financial conditions in person.

In addition to this, there was another very key 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 very good Chinese student in many applications, and because he was worried that the student would be snatched away by other schools, Professor Watson immediately contacted the student's school through official channels.

With the assistance of China's education department, Professor Watson was able to get his hands on the student he held in high esteem.

But something went wrong with what happened next. First he noticed that the student didn't look like the photo.

Generally, Westerners will have 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, and after a long period of contact, he naturally learned the skills of distinguishing Orientals. When he found out that there was a discrepancy between the student and the photo on the application form, he couldn't help but ask two 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 discrepancies.

Professor Watson accepted the explanation that young people were growing their bodies, and two years was enough time for them to undergo many changes in their appearance.

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

Mathematics is the foundation of all science and engineering disciplines, and as long as you learn mathematics well, you should not be bad at other science and engineering disciplines.

The foundation of computer science is also mathematics, so every year when recruiting students, Professor Watson pays great attention to applicants who have good math scores.

The top math student he was expecting was obviously very wrong, such as calculus, the other party would do calculus that was not too esoteric, but as long as the difficulty was slightly increased, this student would not be able to.

Professor Watson was dumbfounded at that time, didn't this student say in his application materials that he was a top student in mathematics? And had he also represented the school in a mathematics league held by a Chinese university and won a prize? According to the Chinese students he had taught in the past, if this was the case, then this student was fully capable of solving a relatively in-depth calculus problem, how could he not even be able to solve a slightly difficult one?