Free Web NovelChapter 515: Chapter 307: Teaching is a Troublesome Matter
After Lu Youhuan had finished up with issues at hand, he began to speak about matters related to the school. He expressed his concern about the work being done in the medical laboratory, the problems encountered during project implementation, and so forth.
The two chatted leisurely for a good ten minutes or so before Lu Youhuan, grinning from ear to ear, took his leave.
Zhao Yi saw Lu Youhuan off, then returned to his sofa where he lay down and began to think.
Becoming a teacher? Teaching a class?
He’d never even thought that far ahead!
Across both his past life and his current one, the only time he had ever actually taught something was when he was in high school, explaining problems to his classmates. He had no experience teaching as a professional.
Although he didn’t feel particularly pressured when confronted with having to make a speech or give a report in front of a large crowd, there was something slightly uneasy about actually teaching a class and becoming a teacher.
"Should I accept this offer?" Zhao Yi wondered, not coming up with any reasons to refuse.
Academician Lu must have come prepared.
He had clearly laid out everything about the teaching arrangements, assistance, course outline, including salary and benefits. Refusing by reasoning that the student didn’t want to be a teacher seemed hardly fair, given that he was a professor at the university. Even if he was currently an undergraduate student, there’s no conflict between being a professor and a student in two different faculties at the same time.
Besides, there was something within him that was truly looking forward to it.
Working as a university professor?
Across both his past life and his current one, it had always been a admirable profession. Stable and relaxed work, good pay, and the appeal of teaching university students made the idea seem quite attractive. Establishing a course of his own, based on a theory he came up with himself, didn’t sound too bad either and might be a good way to promote his theory?
Zhao Yi suddenly thought of his dorm mates who were worried about not having enough elective credit points.
"Perhaps, I should offer them a helping hand by allowing them to take my course?"
"Teaching class alongside Li Renzhe and Fan Lei, coming to class late with them and then deducting marking points from them...Being the teacher sure is a dominating role!"
"Keeping a close eye on them to make sure they attend classes!"
"Or else they’ll fail..."
"Cough."
Shaking his head and laughing at the thoughts running through his mind, Zhao Yi decided not to ponder on it anymore and proceeded to unveil the gifts instead.
"What is this..."
"A car model that comes in separate parts?" In the larger box, numerous parts could be found. The packaging showed an impressive sports car, which indicated that it was likely a car model.
It was exquisite!
According to the pictures in the instructions, it was a very realistic miniature version of a famous sports car.
"Academician Lu really is grand! The gift he thoughtfully picked out is a big investment!" Zhao Yi figured that the model in front of his eyes must have cost several thousand dollars. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
The other box was relatively smaller and upon opening it contained a PSP gaming console.
That one was not as interesting.
Zhao Yi wasn’t interested in the PSP but appreciatively began to assemble the car model. Once he started going about assembling the pieces, to him it was not challenging at all. Just by picking up a part and using the "Correlation Law", he would immediately know what it was, even without having to expend much effort.
It was also simple to assemble the tiny components. If it was not immediately clear how to assemble the pieces, he could just use the "Connection Law" and would instantly understand how to go about it.
Zhao Yi shook his head and laughed at himself, "So my abilities are to be used for assembling models?"
At the same time.
Lu Youhuan breathed a small sigh of relief as he walked along the campus grounds – persuading Zhao Yi to become a teacher was quite a hefty task, not to mention a difficult one at that.
Zhao Yi’s achievements were truly too high.
Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, and more... In every one of these fields, he had achieved world-class results. The school, too, was considering deepening their relationship with Zhao Yi - To brand him fully with the tag of "Yanhua University", rather than giving the impression of someone who might be poached at any time.
Zhao Yi was a student at Yanhua University, he had a laboratory at the Biomedical Research Institute, and was also signed on as a professor by the school. However, his current position at the Biomedical Research Institute was merely an intern researcher, and his professorship was a special application and didn’t involve teaching students normally.
The school hoped Zhao Yi could carry out the responsibilities that a regular professor would.
Offering a course was part of that.
The university decided to offer a course on "Particle Boundary Theory", not purely for its potential for publicity and impact, but as a way of giving support to Zhao Yi.
Think about it.
If a researcher published a new theory, the university would give them the opportunity to publicize their finding, even going so far as to allow them to teach that course, thus granting them a platform to spread their theory...
This was definitely not something a common professor or researcher could enjoy.
However, persuading Zhao Yi to take on the role of a teacher posed a significant challenge, everyone who knew Zhao Yi shared the same perspective--
"There’s no way Zhao Yi would agree!"
"That youngster just wants to coast through his four years at university, he’d rather remain a student, and he doesn’t want to add work to his plate at all!"
"Teaching? Not a chance!"
"Even if Zhao Yi stays at the university in the future, he’d definitely switch to the research sector. He’d probably say something like ’I’m just a student, it’s too soon for me to become a teacher’."
"Salary, benefits, that guy Zhao Yi couldn’t care less!"
"He’s not like us. We’re in research and work as professors for a fixed salary, he’s already received a windfall from the awards he’s won, totalling over ten million!"
"..."
The pressure was immense for Lu Youhuan, he had talked to so many people to get a better understanding of Zhao Yi, prepared extensively and had made the decision to go and talk to Zhao Yi about this.
Luckily, Zhao Yi’s response was that he would consider it, rather than flatly refusing.
"There’s hope in that!"
"Phew!"
Lu Youhuan felt that he had done his utmost, even personally spending over ten thousand dollars to buy two high-end gifts. If this didn’t work, then there was nothing else he could do.</p<
