Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 182 - 100 Those Genius Rivals and the Unpredictable Youth_5

Xue Song spoke without much patience.

When he published his first paper back in the day, receiving the sample issue from the journal was truly a moment of ecstatic joy for him. The sense of accomplishment from that time remains vividly in his memory.

Who knew Qiao Yu would actually complain about the journal’s editorial office not putting him on the cover...

As Xue Song was talking, Qiao Yu had already opened the magazine, found the page with his paper, and snapped several photos with his phone. Especially the author section under the title...

Then he opened WeChat and first sent one photo to a friends’ group.

Good news is always worth sharing with friends first. Even though there’s no time to chat now, at least he can let them envy his achievements for a bit.

He didn’t forget to reply while snapping photos: "Alright, it’s a deal, Mr. Xue. Don’t back out if you can’t keep your promise."

Xue Song ignored this guy’s sarcasm and instructed: "Alright, open your computer."

Qiao Yu paused, looking at Xue Song, feeling a bit apprehensive that this professor might also go through his records.

Impatiently, Xue Song urged: "Hurry up, I’m not going to look at your stuff. Just setting up an internal library account for you, giving you access to download quality papers from around the world for free."

"Oh, I see. Thank you, Mr. Xue."

This time Qiao Yu quickly opened his computer.

Watching Xue Song operate on his computer, Xue Song gave him a sidelong glance: "Alright, from now on you can log in with this account and download directly. Take some time in the next few days to download and read Professor Robert’s papers."

After saying that, Xue Song stood up and said: "Let’s go, I’ll take you for a tour around the campus and have dinner in the meantime. After this, it’s all on you."

...

Qiao Yu took a stroll around Yanbei University.

I have to say, Director Tian was indeed honest.

The Mathematics Center is indeed quite close to the Boya Tower and Weiming Lake, and yes, also quite close to the School of Arts, which has some rather beautiful, antique wooden structures.

The only pity is that school hasn’t officially started yet, so the campus is somewhat deserted.

It’s not like what they say online, where during good weather, senior students throng around Weiming Lake either in groups or sitting on the ground.

The absence of people takes away some of the charm from the scenery.

However, the preserved residences of famous people on campus kept Qiao Yu lingering.

He wondered if, years from now, the little room he stayed in today might also become a preserved famous residence.

Apart from those quadrangles filled with historical sediments, the famous residences and wooden buildings, there are many modern teaching buildings, easily recognizable by their contemporary features, with quite a few bearing personal names.

For instance, the teaching and research building of the Life Sciences College named after Lv; the Li building shared by social and humanities disciplines... so many, a single tour reveals all this history.

It also made Qiao Yu realize that a university is indeed different from a high school, especially regarding the vast land it covers. Even a shallow tour left his feet feeling a bit sore without having seen it all.

After dinner, both he and Xue Song each rode a shared bicycle back to the Mathematics Research Center.

Upon returning to the room, Qiao Yu had two additional cards in hand.

One was a meal card, and the other for accessing the public bath.

As Xue Song was about to leave, he hesitated for a moment but decided to say something: "I didn’t want to dampen your enthusiasm, but there are a few things I should say."

"Hmm?" Qiao Yu looked at Xue Song and said earnestly: "Please, go ahead."

"Don’t underestimate the heroes of the world. Take for instance our neighbors at Huaqing, they also have prodigious talents. You probably haven’t heard of Zheng Zhiqiang; he also entered Huaqing without exams after participating in the international informatics competition in his first year of high school.

Moreover, he independently completed his first paper during his freshman military training and published it at an international computer vision conference. Don’t underestimate this conference; unlike mathematics, computer science moves quickly, so conference papers are more valued than journals.

The conference he submitted to is one of the top conferences in the world for computer vision research. By his sophomore year, he was able to attend another top conference in computer vision, the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, as an award presenter, presenting the award for Best Paper at that conference.

Besides that, the face recognition registration system that Huaqing currently uses was designed by him during his undergraduate years. In other words, the doctoral students at Huaqing have to use a system developed by an undergraduate to register their faces.

Similarly, there are many other geniuses achieving remarkable feats during their undergraduate years. Yanbei University too has many outstanding talents, didn’t a student from your prestigious Star City school solve the Sita Pan Conjecture by their junior year?

And this is just within China; once you look worldwide, there are innumerable prodigies, like the mathematician Peter Schultz, whose achievements are worth looking up. He won the Fields Medal at just 30! And before that, he had almost swept all possible mathematics awards!

So be confident, but don’t get cocky! You’re just starting at a higher point than others now, and your talent is indeed acknowledged by us, but if you waste it due to arrogance, then...

Xue Song didn’t finish his sentence.

After all, when talking with smart people, leaving some things unsaid is actually better.

Old Xue was so serious that Qiao Yu immediately became serious too, responding: "Mr. Xue, actually I’m not arrogant, I just habitually set my goals a little higher so I don’t slack off before I achieve them, right? Besides, I mean no disrespect to the heroes of the world, I’m just motivating myself!"