Deep Space Fleet

Five days passed quickly, and finally the written test results came out.

Some are happy, some are sad.

The two universities only enroll 6,000 graduate students, which is only one-fiftieth of the 300,000 undergraduate students in the entire spaceship.

With a little apprehension, Zhang Yuan clicked on his test report card.

He regrets it now, he fell asleep during the exam...

But soon, when I saw the grades, the trace of regret disappeared. The scores of the three professional courses were "149, 148, 147", sorted by arithmetic progression.

He didn't know how many points were deducted.

"Maybe it's roll noodles?"

There is also the last "Politics and History", which is based on a 100-point system. He really didn't prepare seriously. He just flipped through the outline before the exam, so he only scored 81 points.

"Total points add up, how many places should be ranked..."

Continue to look at the small words below, [Space Mechanics Major Ranking: 3].

Zhang Yuan felt happy.

The result of the third place was better than expected. I don't know who the top two are.

With such professional grades, plus the bonus for that paper, theoretically, it is already possible to choose a very good teacher.

For the next interview, he is naturally worthy.

He immediately made a phone call to report to Professor Wang Zhong on Earth. At present, the spacecraft has just started, and the signal delay is within a few seconds, which is acceptable.

"Very good, you did well in the exam!" In the video, Professor Wang Zhong was very happy, even happier than he won the award.

Immediately afterwards, his expression became serious: "Do you want to continue your studies in space mechanics? Have you decided?"

"Yes." Zhang Yuan nodded.

Professor Wang nodded: "Then, in the future, we need to learn more physics knowledge, including mechanics, informatics and integrated circuits. There are many good professors on the spacecraft, but if we choose, we must choose the best!"

"Let me help you find out who..." Wang Zhong looked at a list.

"Academician Ding Zhaodong from the Wild Wolf Design Bureau, one of the chief designers of the 'Earth Times', what do you think?"

Zhang Yuan was taken aback. He had been in contact with several professors, but those teachers were not at the same level as Academician Ding.

Well, just the title of the chief designer of the "Earth Age" can crush people to death, let alone other messy academic achievements...

Moreover, Ding Zhaodong is the only academician in the spacecraft. The academicians here are not like on earth, they have real status and real power.

Zhang Yuan hesitated for a moment: "That's good, academician Dante shouldn't recruit students, right? He is very busy every day, and I have never met or communicated with him."

"Don't be afraid."

Professor Wang saw what he was thinking and waved his hand, "Everyone came from a young age. Who would dare to say that your future achievements will be lower than that of Ding Zhaodong? So there is nothing to belittle yourself."

"I'll say hello to him first, and you have to do the specific interview matters yourself. If you are inferior to others, you can only blame yourself!"

Zhang Yuan smiled and nodded: "Okay, then trouble Professor Wang."

He turned off the video, walked out the gate, and took a deep breath of fresh air.

He raised his head and saw Wang Xin, the team leader, hurried over.

"How did you do in the exam? Judging from the expressions of other people, I reckon that it's impossible for them to do better than you...I'll give you this little gift."

With a 2% admission rate, it is normal for the rest of the students to fail the exam.

Zhang Yuan thought Wang Xin was talking casually, but he took the pen and saw that it was plated with gold, so he returned it, "Brother Wang, your gift is too expensive, I can't accept it."

"Where is it so valuable? On board the spaceship, can gold be used as currency? It's just a small souvenir." Wang Xin said with a smile: "Which place did you get in the test, tell me!"

"Third, there are two great gods pressing down on it."

"Don't be so discouraged, as long as the score is enough, you can get it back in the interview." Wang Xin nodded to himself and said.

"Wait a minute...the...third?"

After a long time, Wang Xin came back to his senses and took a deep breath. Space Mechanics is a big major, and there are many applicants.

The third place is not easy!

He quickly changed his tone: "Little brother, you are very promising. I have a peerless cheat book here, which can kill a lot of difficult problems in seconds after mastering it—"P Jin Teichmüller Theory", the author is Mochizuki Shinichi, paper. Do you want to buy it? I’ll sell it to you for only five hundred Singapore dollars.”

There are a bunch of question marks in Zhang Yuan's head, why does this big brother Wang Xin have this kind of book in his hand, and it is still a paper book. Everyone's carrying share is limited, so it is wasted.

"Brought it up for a fight..." As if seeing his doubts, Wang Xin sneakily said, "Whenever my wife wants to use her advanced education to despise me, I will pick up this book and spit out some words..."

"As long as you talk about Far Abelian geometry, Grothendieck-universe, and perfectoid space, you can make her shut up immediately."

Zhang Yuan was speechless for a moment.

It turned out to be like this.

The 500 SGD paper book is actually not expensive, because the Earth Times does not produce such things at all, but his current level of mathematics may not be able to eat this book.

"Buy, buy, buy, it's not bad! It's only 500 yuan."

The two walked to the restaurant, and the other six people in the same group were already waiting. When they heard that he got the third place in the exam, everyone was very envious.

"Hey, Zhang Yuan, you are admitted to graduate school, and you can finally get rid of the sweeping career. We will be miserable, and we will have to sweep the floor for another year, and then go into hibernation." One of the friends said.

Wang Xin interjected: "Sweeping the floor is also a job, and doing research and management is also a job. Is there any difference between superior and inferior? Although the job of sweeping the floor is not important, it can be handed over to robots, but..."

"But" for a long time, he couldn't tell why.

The overall atmosphere was not very good. Many students worked hard to prepare for a long time, but in the end they found that this road was a dead end. Nine times out of ten, life is unsatisfactory. Life is like this, and there will be no change just because of changing the environment.

"Okay, I'm treating guests today, everyone can eat whatever they want!" Zhang Yuan hurriedly smoothed things over.

"What can we eat in this kind of place?" Wang Xin asked with a wry smile.

I ordered dishes for half a day, and there was nothing delicious. Vegetables are okay, but meat dishes are all synthetic meat. In addition, in order to reduce kitchen pollution, the cooking method of the robot is basically steaming and boiling, without frying or stir-frying, so the taste of the dishes is not very good, and even the smell of oily smoke is very little.

"Isn't there 3D organ printing now? We can clone a few chicken legs and eat them." One of the girls got rid of the mentality of failing the exam and forced herself to smile.

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "3D organ printing? The cost of a chicken leg is 100,000 yuan, and I can only afford one chicken leg with all my belongings. Jing Xuan, if you sneak into the biology laboratory in the future, you can steal a few out." Give us a taste."

"Do you also want the one soaked in formalin?!" The girl surnamed Jing said with a smile.

"How is it possible? The biological organs are all cultivated in the sterile room, the pure ones can't be more pure!"

"Oh, I really want to eat the chicken drumsticks my mother roasted!"

"So, that's what drives you as a biologist?"

Everyone laughed.