Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 216 - 106 He’s Really Good At..._2

"Oh, okay!" Qiao Yu agreed, then stood there swiftly typing on the phone. Five minutes later, Qiao Yu raised his head, put the phone back in his pocket, and said to Xue Song, "Done."

"Hmm, let’s go." Xue Song silently led Qiao Yu back on the road, unable to resist asking, "Is this something Professor Tian asked you to do in his office yesterday?"

"No!"

Qiao Yu shook his head, looked at Xue Song with confusion, and replied, "Does this need Director Tian to request it? He specially booked me a ticket on the eighth and asked me to come here to attend Professor Robert’s lecture, obviously hoping I would gain something.

Director Tian was present yesterday, so there was no need for me to report. Today he’s not here, so of course, I should take the initiative to report. Let the teacher know that his painstaking efforts weren’t wasted, he’ll probably be quite happy, right?

Um... Mr. Xue, haven’t the students you supervise ever sent you similar insights or reflections when they participate in such activities?

Xue Song shook his head blankly. Generally, if he doesn’t ask, no one takes the initiative to report these things to him. Students rarely reach out to him for chats without reason. Who bothers the advisor with this stuff? Of course, except when PhD students need to confirm a topic or have revisions in their paper...

When he was doing his PhD at Princeton, he seldom did such things. On one hand, he didn’t feel that studying was something very autonomous and never thought of doing it; on the other hand, he thought the advisor was quite busy, and it’s best not to bother them if there’s no reason.

"Huh? Then how do you find joy in teaching students? Don’t people want to see results after putting in effort? Do you just see supervising other students as completing a task?" Qiao Yu asked, somewhat puzzled.

Xue Song pursed his lips and said, "Advisors are usually very busy; especially yours. How do you know you won’t be interrupting them?"

Qiao Yu glanced at Xue Song, answering without any mental burden, "I didn’t require Director Tian to reply immediately, did I? Besides, whether or not I report is my business, and whether Director Tian responds is his business! I’m just a student; if Director Tian doesn’t think it’s necessary, he would surely tell me, right? Then I just won’t report next time.

Moreover, Director Tian isn’t busy all the time; people need to rest, right? When he’s free, he’ll check his phone. I’m just sharing some insights and reflections. If he agrees, he doesn’t need to reply; if he sees errors, he can pick a time to call me.

Most importantly, yesterday when Director Tian gave me the book list, I said I would voluntarily report my weekly reading progress before every Monday. He didn’t oppose, right? This shows that Director Tian doesn’t mind me proactively reporting my academic progress, isn’t it?"

After hearing Qiao Yu’s explanation, Xue Song was silent for a while, putting himself in Tian Yanzhen’s shoes to imagine what it would be like to have such a student. Then he asked, "So why are you reporting to your grandmaster then? These resources weren’t arranged by your grandmaster, were they?"

This question left Qiao Yu a bit bewildered, looking at Xue Song with a strange gaze and asking back, "No, Mr. Xue, you’re an adult. You should understand these matters better than me, right? My grandmaster is across the way; I can’t just visit every day, so I need to keep in contact often, or the hard-earned relationship would fade.

And if I don’t chat about these things with my grandmaster, should I just send a daily greeting message? That’s purely flattery. Plus, reporting my daily insights to my grandmaster can boost his confidence in me, right? The same logic applies: though he may be busy, I don’t need my grandmaster to reply to everything either!

The most important thing is that the content only needs to be edited once; sending a message to grandmaster is just about copying it, with only the salutation changed. It’s a few seconds of work; not doing so would be brainless, right?"

For some reason, after listening to Qiao Yu’s explanation, Xue Song suddenly felt like crying.

Back then, his advisor at Princeton was a big shot too, but every time he sent an email to his advisor, it took him a long time to summon the courage. Moreover, each email was meticulously crafted, word by word.

Unlike Qiao Yu, who does it so casually, without thinking, he can edit and send a message using instant messaging in about ten minutes.

Handling both teacher and grandmaster with the same document, getting double the results...

Indeed, to maintain relationships, one has to stay in touch. After all those years of graduation, it seems he’s hardly emailed his former advisor. Whenever he has questions, he still hesitates and overthinks...

It’s true; compared to Qiao Yu, Xue Song suddenly felt like an idiot! freēwēbnovel.com

And the kid is only fifteen! When he was fifteen...

Forget it!

Just as Xue Song felt a tangle of emotions, Qiao Yu took out his phone again and said, "Oh no, grandmaster replied, ugh... it’s over, it’s over, grandmaster has no martial ethics. I shared my ideas with him, and he even started testing me. Mr. Xue, please wait a moment; I need to reply to grandmaster first.

Oh, right, Mr. Xue, I remember the Riemann-Roch theorem can be used independently from other tools to calculate the dimension of specific divisors on a curve, right?"

Xue Song thought for a moment and then nodded.

He then looked dazedly at Qiao Yu standing in the early spring sunlight, typing rapidly on his phone, unable to help being mesmerized.