Brainoid

Although he had drank at least five cups of coffee before falling asleep, Qi Min still went to get another cup of coffee as soon as he stood up from the chair.

Seeing the computer screen showing that the code had entered the second of her six major loops, Qi Min thought to herself that the computing power of her school's supercomputer team was really strong - without realizing that this was because of her. At this time, one person occupied nearly half of the school's computing resources.

I glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the screen, it was already two thirty in the afternoon. Qi Min found that he not only missed yesterday's dinner, but also missed today's breakfast and lunch.

What to eat? She frowned and glanced at the coffee in the paper cup. The coffee produced by the coffee machine in the Department of Biology does not taste very good.

Let's go have a normal meal. Qi Min walked out of the department door happily, picked up a small yellow car and rode to the cafeteria.

When she arrived at the canteen, she found that there were no dishes left at this time, and only the window for making pancakes was still open. At this time, there was a boy who liked this baseball shirt standing in front of the window, seemingly waiting for his pancakes.

Qi Min walked over and found that he was waiting for grilled cold noodles, which did not conflict with the pancakes.

The man at the window asked her, "Classmate, do you want pancakes or cold noodles?"

Qi Min did not correct his mistake, but said: "Pancakes...please add two eggs."

"Eight and a half dollars." The pancake seller pressed three times on the credit card machine.

Qi Min took out her newly obtained staff card from her pocket, swiped it but it showed "ERROR".

The old man selling pancakes told the very shameful fact: "Classmate, you don't have enough money in your card."

I didn’t pay much attention to the remaining money in the card when I was drinking coffee, but now I don’t even have enough money for eighty-five dollars...

Qi Min asked sheepishly: "Can I pay with WeChat?"

"The cafeteria is not available for use," the pancake seller replied.

"Then if I transfer the money to you first -" Qi Min didn't give up.

At this time, the boy waiting for the cold noodles next to him took the initiative and said: "How about I pay for you first, and then just transfer the money to me via WeChat."

"Thank you so much." Qi Min turned to look at him. The young man was not bad looking. Sure enough, kind people are born from the heart.

Because the other party paid for it, Qi Min followed the boy to an empty table after getting her pancakes.

She put down the pancakes and added the boy's WeChat account first. His WeChat name is "Hua Ruiming", which looks like his real name. After transferring the money for the pancakes to someone, he took another look at the empty canteen except for the two of them, and chose to sit across from him.

I finally found a teaching position, and I wanted to get to know other people in the school anyway. Why not meet random people who missed their lunch time just like her?

Qi Min is not an acquaintance, but she can still talk to a stranger who borrows her card: "Hey, classmate? Do you know where the place to recharge the card is?"

"Just turn left after exiting that door." Hua Ruiming swallowed a mouthful of grilled cold noodles, smiled at her and asked, "What, have you just come to school this semester?"

"Yes." Qi Min continued the conversation, "And I didn't expect that there would be nothing else to eat in the cafeteria so early."

"The cafeteria on the school's main road is almost empty at one o'clock. The cafeterias in the surrounding areas are better, and they close at half past one." Hua Ruiming took the initiative to introduce, "Generally, after two o'clock, don't even think about eating in the cafeteria. It’s time to eat in the cafeteria, and only the pancake and drink window will be open at this time. The reason why I came so late today is because the power in the laboratory suddenly went out at noon, and I had to do the experiment again."

It sounds like he is also working in a laboratory, and he is doing a separate experiment by himself. He is probably a major in biology, chemistry, materials science, etc.

"Why did the laboratory suddenly lose power at noon?" Qi Min asked with a smile.

However, this young man who had been working hard on experiments since the beginning of school said with a grimace: "I don't know, I heard that the supercomputer room was overloaded, causing the entire building to trip. Someone must be running excessive amounts of data."

Qi Min thought about it. She had just seen the allocation of computing resources on the supercomputer. Everyone except her was running some short codes that didn't take much time. It seemed that no one else was particularly consuming computing resources.

Wait, is she the person who caused the entire circuit breaker in their building to trip? Then she was really very sorry.

Qi Min didn't say much about this, but turned the topic to his major: "Are you from the chemistry department?"

"Oh, I'm from the Department of Medicine." Hua Ruiming said.

The school's Department of Medicine not only has clinical-oriented majors, but also specializes in medical theoretical research. In fact, it has many things in common with the laboratories of the Department of Biology.

"So our majors are somewhat similar." Qi Min said with a smile, "I'm in the Department of Biology, doing bioinformatics."

"Is the biology department also out of power?" Hua Ruiming asked jokingly.

"Probably not, after all, it is still far away from the supercomputer room." Qi Min shrugged and defended himself, "But the weather is so hot now, and the laboratory is prone to power outages. It may not be because the computer room is overloaded. .”

The two of them left the cafeteria together after eating. Hua Ruiming found his bicycle parked in the shed outside, while Qi Min was still looking for the yellow bicycle everywhere.

"Why don't you go to the car repair shop over there and buy a bicycle? It's usually more convenient to ride a bicycle in school anyway." Hua Ruiming suggested to her.

This is true. Qi Min originally thought that as a laboratory PI, she should be different from the poor students and should drive to work. But now it seems that she may be poorer than those doctoral students who only get two to three thousand yuan a month. After all, students can still rely on their parents to support them, and she is really embarrassed to feed her old age.

Qi Min bought a refurbished 28-inch bumper for just over 300 yuan. She rode back to her office in the Department of Biology and saw on the computer screen that the code had entered the third cycle.

This progress is really gratifying.

Qi Min actually wanted to do something that could sell patents, but she had no choice but to continue researching this theoretical topic based on her experience. When she first returned to China, she was eager to make money. With the money, Mimi might be able to receive better treatment - even though her spinal nerves were so severely damaged, the prognosis would not be good even if she took surgery.

Thinking of Mimi, Qi Min couldn't help but open Skype again and saw that the conversation time with Anton in the list was still eight months ago.

She typed one line in her conversation with Anton: "I found a teaching position."

Then this line was deleted.

What about finding a teaching position? No matter what, Mimi cannot be completely restored to normal, and her current salary is not enough to pay for the high cost of surgery.

Qi Min felt that maybe she had to put down this heavy burden of guilt and move forward. She now has a teaching position and her own lab, and everything will be fine.

Some time ago, there were frequent power outages in the laboratory... Actually, it was just because of the intensive experiments in summer, and the fact that the air conditioner and refrigerator consumed a lot of power. It had nothing to do with the computer room downstairs. So the computer room is not necessarily to blame for the power outage_(:з」∠)_