Brainoid

Qi Min felt more at ease since there was no risk of running into his former boss at the meeting.

Although Qi Min’s doctoral student boss is actually a good person, even if her article was rejected N times, she did not stop her from graduating, and even gave her an article from someone else in order to allow her to graduate. However, this may also be because Qi Min did not make any particularly commendable results when she was studying for her PhD, and she was not the type to work very hard. Her former boss felt that keeping her in his laboratory would not be of much use, so it was better to let her graduate and return to China normally. .

These days, outstanding doctoral students are often stuck in graduation, while ordinary people can probably graduate normally as long as they don't make any serious mistakes. In fact, this is the same as at the grassroots level of enterprises and institutions. Ordinary people are promoted who should be promoted, while particularly capable people are kept in front-line positions.

But often important work is done while studying for a PhD or working as a postdoc. If you don't make any important results during this period, then I'm afraid you can only go to an ordinary school to be a PI, such as Qi Min is now. At least in China, the distribution of scientific research resources among many universities is so uneven, and the name of the school will also affect the research group's application for funding. This has led to the fact that most of the first-rate results are produced in first-rate schools, and those in second-rate schools. Most research groups can only produce second-rate results all the time.

Qi Min, a small PI from a second-rate school, can continue to work on the topics she brought from the first-rate school where she studied for a Ph.D., which is actually an opportunity.

It’s just that if she can’t do it in two or three years, and the laboratory hasn’t accumulated experience in doing microbial experiments, then she may not be able to complete her newly applied soil microbial analysis project in the remaining two years. I guess TENURE may be blind.

Therefore, there are advantages and disadvantages to doing a first-class project. The advantage is that you can do something of real value and you can publish a few superficial articles. The disadvantage is that if you cannot do it or if you do it to verify that the hypothesis is wrong, you may not even be able to do it. No water articles are allowed to be published.

Fortunately, Qi Min is now able to use a 256×256×256 miniature brain-like body for machine learning testing, and the test result is still a Positive Result. If animal experiments really couldn't be done, she would just post the results of machine learning and downgrade the article by a few levels. But now that she is attending this international conference, all she sees are top-notch project reports from high-level academic research groups, and she can't help but feel unwilling to downgrade such things.

The more I listened to the big boss’s report, the more frustrated I became. I couldn’t help but ask myself: Why didn’t I think of such a clever method? Why doesn’t our group have such a good subject? Why can't our department and school provide that XX device that is very expensive but very easy to use and can save time and publish articles before others? It's so irritating that people are so different from each other.

The PI from a first-class university was very inspired after listening to the reports of the big guys. He came up with new ideas after lunch. As for the little PIs who come from second-rate schools in third-world countries and have no money or resources, they only feel envious after hearing this.

Qi Min listened to the last report with all kinds of envy. After returning to the hotel, she thought for a long time and felt that her academic future was probably the same, but her personal relationship issues had to be resolved.

Lying on the bed in the hotel room, she thought for a long time, how should she meet Anton? How she goes to see her is another matter. First, Anton must be willing to see her. To be fair, if Mimi was permanently injured due to Anton's mistake, Qi Min would have been so angry that he stabbed him. Anton did not retaliate against her, and Qi Min felt that he had restrained himself. It's been more than half a year since she returned to China, and she hasn't had a single video call with Mimi on Skype. This shows that Anton probably doesn't want Mimi to see her again.

If Anton was told directly that she was here, he would probably not come to see her. And Qi Min didn't know where to look for him. After all, he was leaving by plane in the evening, and Anton's takeout delivery should only get off work at night. He might not be able to go home immediately after get off work. What's more, Qi Min doesn't even know if they have moved, so he might not gain much if he rushes to find them.

But when she thought about it carefully, Anton should deliver takeout now. If she ordered takeout, wouldn't he have to come over? But it can't be Qi Min's fault. Anton can still hear her accent even if he can't hear her voice. So someone should order takeout for her.

Qi Min thought about it for a while, and found that it was actually easy to find someone who would order takeout on his behalf. They have many young PIs here this time, because they are all peers with relatively junior qualifications and are easy to talk to. Living next door to Qi Min is a young man named Zhang Zhiyong, a PI of the Department of Chemistry who just arrived at the University of Science and Technology of China last year. Qi Min remembers his name very clearly because his "Zhiyong" is not "Zhiyong" which means "wisdom and courage", but "Wisdom springs up like a spring". Perhaps because of this well-chosen name, this top student in the Department of Chemistry at a Top 2 university published SCIENCE at the age of 25, and became a PI after graduating with a Ph.D. in the second year.

Of course, in terms of age, Qi Min seems to be ahead of his peers. However, she went to school to become a PI without any good articles, which is not very beneficial from a career development perspective. But no matter what, she and Zhang Zhiyong were considered to be the same kind of people, so they had a good chat along the way.

Now it should be okay to ask Zhang Zhiyong to order takeout for her, right? And if there was a male voice on the phone, even if it had a Chinese accent, Anton would definitely not think of her.

So Qi Min left the room and knocked on the door of Zhang Zhiyong's room.

After a while, the door opened. Zhang Zhiyong had changed from the formal attire for the meeting to casual attire: "Qi Min, what's wrong?"

"Zhiyong, can your mobile phone be used in the United States?" Qi Min asked.

"I had an American SIM card before, it should still be usable." Zhang Zhiyong asked, "Who do you want to call?"

"Well... I want to order takeout." Qi Min said hesitantly, "To be precise... I want you to order takeout for me."

"Some takeout?" Zhang Zhiyong was a little surprised, but it was just a small matter, and there was no need to refuse, "Where can I order takeout?"

Qi Min took out the note she had written, which had the phone number of the Chinese fast food restaurant and the name of the dish she wanted to order.

Zhang Zhiyong went back inside to get his cell phone, switched to his American SIM card, and then dialed the number according to Qi Min's note.

It looked like the call was dialed quickly. Zhang Zhiyong ordered the food in English and then said it would be delivered to Qi Min's room in the hotel where they were staying. The surname of the contact person left was his own.

"Okay." Zhang Zhiyong said to Qi Min after hanging up the phone, "They said it would be delivered in about half an hour."

"Thank you so much." Qi Min thanked him immediately.

"Nothing to thank." Zhang Zhiyong smiled and asked, "But I'm a little curious, why should someone else take the order?"

"Uh... this is a bit complicated..." Qi Min was a little embarrassed and made up an excuse on the spot, "That's... I often ordered this takeaway when I was studying for a Ph.D. here, and the payment was settled monthly, but I didn't have it in the last month. I'm going back to my country after paying the bill, so I'm afraid they won't deliver it if I order it now."

This sounds reasonable, Zhang Zhiyong just smiled and said: "Then you should pay for the meal quickly this time."

Although I am a severe procrastinator, the signing was finally completed... Although I don’t know the purpose of signing the contract, I can probably understand it as if I recognize Party A’s father. With the supervision of Party A’s father, I have to update it (wrong)