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There is still one week before the official start of school. According to the practice of Shanghai Comprehensive University, this week is also called "week zero".

Xu Qiu's new counselor during his graduate studies, Bao Wei, has already started working, chatting in groups, sending emails...

The number of counselors in the Department of Materials is relatively scarce, so doctoral students, master students, direct doctoral students, and combined master and doctoral students at the same level share one counselor, usually a student from the "Talent Project".

Sometimes it even happens that first-year Ph.D. students act as their own counselors.

Of course, Xu Qiu did not encounter such a special situation. Bao Wei is currently a young associate researcher employed by the Materials Department.

Xu Qiu deliberately checked Bao Wei's resume and found that he graduated with a Ph. He worked as a senior engineer at Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute for three years, and now he is working as a young associate researcher at Shanghai General University.

The title of "Youth Associate Researcher" sounds pretty nice, but in fact this kind of title is not official, it is not a common creation, and it may be recognized in the current school. If you go out, other universities will not accept it. It must be recognized that the level is theoretically equal to that of an associate professor, but it is not an associate professor after all, so it can be considered that it is approximately equal to a lecturer, and the next level of promotion is an associate professor.

This also shows how difficult it is to get into the comprehensive university in Shanghai now:

First of all, Bao Wei is a Ph.D. student at Shanghai University;

Secondly, he has two years of foreign exchange experience, three years of experience as a senior engineer, and a bonus of party and government work experience;

Again, he has more than ten SCI first-authored works;

In the end, the big boss Bao Wei defected to was also one of the few "Yangtze Rivers" in the Department of Materials, Yang Zhenhua.

All kinds of factors add up, and Bao Wei has to work as a counselor for three years before he has a chance to get the title of associate professor.

Of course, in this case, Bao Wei is basically going through a process. After the three-year counselor is done, there is not much suspense about the "young associate researcher" being directly promoted to an associate professor.

After all, Yang Zhenhua is now 60+ years old, and he most likely brought Bao Wei over to take over his class. Bao Weiping's qualifications for associate professors are basically up to the standard, and the departments will definitely not hinder him too much.

Yang Zhenhua's main research direction is "Material Failure Analysis". Xu Qiu took his "Material Failure Analysis" course in his junior year.

This teacher's lectures are quite interesting, and his accent is more recognizable, similar to Modu dialect mixed with Mandarin.

In the class, Yang Zhenhua introduced a project they did: "Carry out a material failure analysis on a rubber gasket in a nuclear power plant, and then develop a new type of rubber gasket based on the analysis results, which can last for a long time without failure" Generally speaking, their research is more inclined to practical application, which is different from Wei Xingsi's relatively conceptual field.

Xu Qiu checked the mailbox of the new student number, and there were only a few emails in it, including the welcome new students sent by the school's Student Affairs Office, and the "School Start Precautions" email sent by the counselor Bao Wei.

After enrolling, Xu Qiu's new student number is 1x11030001, and the initial password of the mailbox is the last six digits of the ID number. After seeing this student number, he committed another occupational disease again, so he couldn't help but study the group emails sent by the counselor. The student numbers of other students.

After careful deduction, it was concluded that:

The first two digits are the year of admission, the third digit "1" refers to a doctoral student, if it is a master student, the third digit is "2", and the fourth to lower six digits "103" are materials physics and In chemical codes, the last four digits "0001" are number one.

Xu Qiu didn't know how this number came about. Anyway, it was definitely not arranged according to the pinyin of the surname, but anyway, it felt pretty cool to get the student number 0001, at least it was easy to remember.

In the counselor's email, there are many and complicated things related to the start of school, including training plans, course selection, tutor selection after the start of the school, class meetings at the start of the term, submission of materials, registration at the start of the term, physical examination at the start of the term, dormitory allocation, etc...

There are so many...

However, as a student, these things cannot be avoided, and you must handle everything patiently.

We are all adults, and it is the basic principle of life not to trouble others.

training program. Xu Qiu had a preliminary understanding before that direct Ph.D. students need to take about 40 credits of courses. After 8 credits for English courses, he still has 32 credits. He plans to complete all courses within two years. In this way, About 8 credits of courses are taken each semester, which is like three or four courses.

Several seniors in the research group, Tian Qing, Chen Wanqing, Wu Feifei, have already helped Xu Qiu to step on the thunder, and compiled a list of postgraduate "water courses". The so-called "water courses" are not Need roll call, end-of-term open-book exam, or the kind that only needs to do a PPT speech without an exam.

Xu Qiu naturally accepted this list of "water courses". It's not that he didn't want to take the courses, it's that the knowledge density of these basic courses is too low for him at present.

Because the teacher needs to consider all the students, it is impossible to give too in-depth explanation of a certain field, and more of the simple science popularization. If you want to obtain cutting-edge and professional knowledge, you might as well read the literature yourself.

For example, with the idea of ​​broadening his horizons, Xu Qiu will read a few new CNS main journals every week, which can be regarded as accumulation for himself. After all, if he wants to impact CNS in the future, the quality of his own work is one aspect, language expression, drawing The same goes for near-perfection.

Select courses. As a freshman, there is only one round of course selection, that is, free course selection and withdrawal in the first two weeks after the start of the semester, and the number of graduate students is relatively small, so there is almost no case that the course cannot be selected. Even if you cannot choose, please talk to the instructor It is also possible to let the teacher directly import the student ID of the student in the background, which is not a big problem.

The choice of tutor after the semester begins. Doctoral students, direct doctoral students, and combined master-doctoral students have already confirmed their supervisors when they are admitted, and there is no need to take this step.

This item is mainly for master students, including two-year professional master and three-year master of science. They need to conduct two-way mutual selection between students and tutors after one month of admission, and students are not encouraged to enter the research group in advance ...

If you really foolishly follow the path of the school, you can only play soy sauce one month before the start of school.

The tutor selected in the end was either an associate professor with little funding, or a BT tutor who was so distasteful.

In fact, from the school's policies, Xu Qiu can also roughly see the future trend. Master students do not aim to cultivate their scientific research capabilities. Maybe they will expand their enrollment in the future. The gold content of doctorates may not drop too much, but the status of master students It may be almost the same as undergraduate students a few years ago, especially like a two-year professional master's degree, which is basically two years of classes.

The trend in this area is more obvious for liberal arts majors. For example, the professional master degree of the School of Economics and the School of Management is directly marked with a price, and the tuition fee is very expensive. In conversion, it is equivalent to spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a degree.

But even so, many people are still flocking to it. After all, the School of Economics and School of Management of Shanghai Metropolitan University are still very famous. Although hundreds of thousands is a bit expensive, the effect is similar to going abroad for gold plating, and it is more convenient. If you work in Shanghai, you can also study part-time.

The class meeting is scheduled for the first week after the official start of school, so it is probably a normal process.

submit material. Direct doctoral students, doctoral students, and combined master and doctoral students need to submit a research proposal, which is similar to the opening report. As a direct doctoral student of our school, Xu Qiu has already completed this step.

physical examination. Just in the school hospital, according to several senior sisters, it is just some routine tests, such as taking blood, taking X-rays, testing vision under glasses, and so on.

Finally, the dormitory issue.

The dormitory allocation results were just updated today, so Xu Qiu logged on to the school's URP website to check.

His dormitory is assigned to 402A, Building 16, North District, Handan Campus. Freshmen do not have a card for the time being, so they need to go directly to the North District property to collect the dormitory key with the admission notice.

Because the school system only prompts the room number and does not display roommates, after the dormitory news was announced, the new class group became active, and one after another used the room number as a "password" to find roommates.

Xu Qiu glanced at the group chat and stopped paying attention. Anyway, he will know in a week at most, so it's better to keep some suspense for himself.

In addition, Tao Yan deliberately sent a message to report his dormitory number, but unfortunately the new dormitories of the two were not divided together this time.

According to Xu Qiu's inference, the school should divide the dormitories of several direct doctoral students into one, because the accommodation treatment for direct doctoral students in the first two years is the same as that of a master's degree. In the third to fifth years, the accommodation conditions will be upgraded to the level of doctoral students , In this way, when it comes to changing dormitories in the third year of the doctoral degree, adjustments can be made uniformly. If direct doctoral students and master's students are mixed together, then you will find that there is one less pit here and one less pit there, and the adjustment will be more troublesome.

In material 1 216, Tian Qing was responsible for the charge transport test alone, and Mo Wenlin was responsible for the preparation of the device, so Han Jiaying was free to sit at the desk and type.

After reading the email, Xu Qiu decided to go to the North District to see the situation in the dormitory.

So, he got up and wrapped his arms around Xuemei's waist from behind, and whispered in her ear: "Xiaomei~"

"Ah~" Han Jiaying responded softly with a slight tremolo: "Brother, what's the matter?"

Xu Qiurou said: "Help me test the DSC of IDIC-4F material later, I have an appointment for this afternoon, okay?"

Han Jiaying was expressionless: "Oh, I see." After she finished speaking, she shook her body, trying to break away from Xu Qiu's embrace in a symbolic way, but she stopped after trying for three seconds and found that breaking free was fruitless. Come down, pout and act like I need to be coaxed.

Xu Qiu patted the hair on the junior girl's head, "Hey, I'll treat you to milk tea when I come back."