1349: Being Abused to the Point of Walking and Fluttering (2 More)
15 hours left?
15 hours is enough!
Professor Wen didn't seem to be joking.
The "Structural Elements" in Xia Xiaolan's hand is the work of Professor McCarthy. This is very common in the United States. The price of textbooks is high, and the cost of writing textbooks is naturally high. Their teaching content is organized into professional textbooks and published. When they teach, they do not choose their own works, why do they choose others?
Like Professor McCarthy's "Structural Elements", it has been tested by teaching and can be used as a textbook for architecture majors at Cornell University. Many architecture majors in other universities in the United States also use this version of Professor McCarthy... The page number is 395 pages, Wen The professor asked Xia Xiaolan to preview in 15 hours!
Xia Xiaolan still has a lot to watch. Everyone else has started school for a month, and Xia Xiaolan has to catch up with the progress.
As soon as she opened "Structural Elements", she felt dizzy. She felt that her English proficiency was very good, but the textbook involved a lot of professional vocabulary, which Xia Xiaolan had never encountered in China.
The professional books she can borrow from Huaqing Library have not yet involved the original English version!
Seeing her pale face, Hu Ying made her a cup of coffee, and blamed Professor Wen for being too harsh, frightening Xia Xiaolan.
Professor Wen hummed in a wheelchair:
"That's McCarthy! Of all my colleagues, you're the least favorite, and I'm not lying!"
Hu Ying remembered that McCarthy had only been a guest at home once, and couldn't help showing a look of resistance.
"...difficult to get along with."
It is difficult to get along with colleagues, how do you say warmth to students?
Xia Xiaolan became more and more desperate.
At the beginning, she could also ask Professor Wen, although Professor Wen did not teach this course, he was also a professor of the Department of Architecture after all, and the professional vocabulary was difficult for Professor Wen, and he took Xia Xiaolan to preview.
This may be the benefit of living in the professor's house. Xia Xiaolan is grateful for Teacher Mao's wise decision.
However, Professor Wen had just recovered from a serious illness, so he took Xia Xiaolan with him for more than an hour, and was obviously in a bad mood.
It's not that Xia Xiaolan's EQ is so low, how can she let Professor Wen stay up late with her?
He quickly persuaded Professor Wen to rest, and asked Hu Ying to make a large pot of coffee for her, and Xia Xiaolan fought alone.
It is a little troublesome for those whose native language is not English. When reading English textbooks, they must first convert the content into Chinese, and then try to understand. Xia Xiaolan's English level has always been good. In the past, this process was shortened infinitely. Read a newspaper Or the magazine can think very fluently, and when she encounters professional teaching materials, she also gets stuck from time to time.
Don't want to sleep at night.
She squinted for about half an hour and played through the first few chapters of "Structural Elements".
The next day she was flabbergasted when she walked. Hu Ying thought that her condition was even difficult to ride a bicycle, and insisted on driving her to school.
There was no way but to leave Professor Wen at home alone.
Seeing Xia Xiaolan yawning, Hu Ying sympathized with her:
"Poor little, this is the daily life of Cornell University."
American universities seem to be freer than those in China. University life can be very exciting. The school doesn't care whether students are in love or not, whether they live in dormitories... But people have similar energy, and there is no reason for nothing. People of the race have to be smarter and more energetic than people of the yellow race. If you want to live a wonderful life, you also want to get an A in your schoolwork. How can you not stay up late?
In a group of outstanding students, to stand out, you have to work harder than others.
Hu Ying told Xia Xiaolan that this was the norm. Xia Xiaolan tried her best to pat her face and looked for the classroom with her book in her arms.
The arc-shaped amphitheater is very large, and it is no problem to seat two or three hundred people, but at this time there are only twenty or thirty people in the classroom, Xia Xiaolan is late, Ning Xue and others have already arrived.
Sitting together in twos and threes, I also wanted to finalize the completion of an assignment before Professor McCarthy arrived.
In front of Ning Xue and others, there are various models, which should be the homework that Professor McCarthy left last time.
Xia Xiaolan was empty-handed and didn't know anyone, so she just found a place to sit down.
She is so beautiful that she was warmly accepted by hotel alumni yesterday, but when she walked into this classroom, the air pressure was too low, and everyone was poor under the high-pressure rule of Professor McCarthy. These architecture students who met for the first time, I really don't have the mood to pay attention to Xia Xiaolan's beauty.
Pretty Asian face... heh, it's like a crime to look at it, and the face of Professor McCarthy immediately pops up in my mind!
Xia Xiaolan is also rarely treated coldly.
When Ning Xue saw her alone, she probably remembered the scene when she first arrived at school. She ignored her yesterday, but talked to her today:
"Did you prep?"
Ning Xue pointed to the textbook.
Xia Xiaolan's face turned blue, "Is 15 hours enough?"
Ning Xue shook her head, "It will take at least a week to thoroughly read "The Elements of Structure", but you should have just arrived in the United States, and it is too late... Then I wish you good luck."
Ning Xue said that Xia Xiaolan was even more guilty.
There was a sound of footsteps, the large classroom was silent, and a short white professor stepped into the classroom.
He can toss only half of the students' hair volume in one semester, but his hair is very thick and curly. He is meticulously dressed in a suit, carrying a briefcase in his hand, and the most prominent features on his face are the hooked nose.
"One more person today."
Professor McCarthy said that the briefcase was placed on the desk, "What's going on this year, there are so many countries in China
Students come here, new students, introduce yourself! "
Xia Xiaolan tried her best to keep her smiling face, and quickly introduced herself.
The name can be introduced casually, and the face of the alma mater cannot be lost.
"hua-tsinguniversity", when Xia Xiaolan said it, her words were round.
McCarthy pointed to Ning Xue, as if he couldn't remember Ning Xue's name for a long time, "A school."
Just talking about Ning Xue, McCarthy simply walked directly in front of Ning Xue and began to check the homework.
After all, Ning Xue is also a leader in the Department of Architecture of Huaqing. She is an undergraduate student who can publish papers in China. With Professor McCarthy, she is not qualified to be remembered by name?
Xia Xiaolan didn't feel gloating at all, which only showed that Professor McCarthy was really scary.
She thought it was mean, but she immediately saw something even meaner.
In the eyes of Professor McCarthy, there is probably no word "will be ready". All assignments are only qualified and unqualified. He picks out all kinds of faults for qualified ones. , There was more than one student with tears in his eyes.
Except for her and Ning Xue, these were all confident American students, and they couldn't bear the pressure.
Although Ning Xue's group's homework was picked up by a lot of faults, it still hasn't been pushed to the ground.
Xia Xiaolan couldn't care less about the self-esteem of poor others, McCarthy's perversion immediately came to her, this class was definitely Xia Xiaolan's nightmare. Throughout the class, McCarthy was looking for her, a freshly enrolled exchange student, to answer questions——
After Xia Xiaolan's rebirth, she met gods to kill gods, and met ghosts to destroy ghosts. It was the first time she was asked to stammer, hang up and abuse her!