Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 860: Chapter 450 Shocking! God Zhao is Actually Going to Take an Exam!_2

That was normal.

But there were some discussions and comments about theoretical physics, Boundary Theory, and string theory that he felt could still be debated and replied to.

Everyone has the right to express their opinions, and everyone hopes their views can be recognized.

Zhao Yi was like that.

So were the anonymous users on the internet.

Then, Zhao Yi engaged in a heated discussion with a few commenters. As the discussion went on, some replies were truly infuriating, and he immediately hammered out responses on his keyboard.

Back and forth.

After more than half an hour had passed.

Zhao Yi felt somewhat exhausted and realized that what he was doing was meaningless, trying to convince others through the screen...

It was too hard!

It was an impossible task.

There’s a psychological concept known as the "Dunning-Kruger effect", where if people with lower abilities receive appropriate training, they can significantly improve their skill levels, to the extent that they eventually recognize their own deficiencies and ultimately admit their previous ignorance.

Moreover, the less competent people are, the more capable they think they are, while the more capable individuals tend to be more humble.

In summary, the less knowledgeable people are, the more unfounded confidence they have in themselves, which is very true when reflected on the internet.

Zhao Yi put forth a lot of theories and perspectives in an attempt to convince the online commenters, but even if some were rendered speechless by his professional knowledge, they could still switch to other angles to continue their arguments.

In a nutshell, they firmly believed in their own cognition, and even if rendered speechless, they had to find something else to argue back.

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How do you even argue with that?

Zhao Yi also felt a bit depressed, but found it rather amusing because, essentially, those arguing with him were his supporters, which felt very contradictory when he thought about it.

All right then!

Time for bed!

Zhao Yi fell asleep with a mix of odd emotions, only to wake up to a loud exclamation.

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"What?"

Groggily, Zhao Yi turned his head to see Li Renzhe pointing at the screen, "You’ve gone viral, trending on Weibo!"

"I know, saw it yesterday."

"Not that... It’s... Just look, your Weibo!" Li Renzhe blurted out a lot without making it clear.

Zhao Yi simply got up and took a closer look before he understood the reason. His Weibo account was identified by netizens as being his own, and then it just blew up, even making it onto the hot search list with the topic ’Academician Zhao and netizens debate theoretical physics’.

"???"

Soon.

Zhao Yi figured out why the netizens could identify him. Because he logged in through his blog account, his Weibo was automatically linked to it, and with a little research on his Weibo profile, one could tell it was him.

This was awkward.

Thankfully, online discussions treated the matter as juicy gossip, without delving into other matters, but some of his replies were screenshot and shared, with many joining in on the gossiping—

"Netizens trying to support God Zhao through their keyboards never imagined that the person they were arguing with was God Zhao himself."

"It’s just morning, and I’m already laughing so hard my stomach hurts; I can’t even..."

"Got to follow God Zhao’s Weibo now!"

"Seeing you always saying ’God Zhao, God Zhao’, I just realized it’s Academician Zhao. Academician Zhao has really raised the bar for ’Gods’. Who else would dare to claim that title now?"

At the same time.

Zhao Yi’s Weibo inbox was overflowing with comments and private messages, too many to look through, and a massive influx of new followers. In just a few hours, his Weibo followers had increased by a hundred thousand.

This rate of increase would be nothing a few years later, but considering that Weibo was just becoming popular and the top celebrities invited to join the site had only two or three million followers, it was a big deal.

Zhao Yi scrolled through the messages for a while and sighed helplessly, "This is just pointless, I was meant to be low-profile and lurking."

"Look, my Weibo username is even ’Ordinary College Student’."

"You, ordinary?"

Li Renzhe bit his teeth, "I’m really... dying of envy here. I’ve had my Weibo account for over two months now, updating daily, and I’ve only got a little over a hundred followers."

"A hundred? That’s not bad!" Zhao Yi commended casually.

"Of course."

Li Renzhe said somewhat proudly, "I post about postgraduate entrance examination related stuff every day, and lots of people ask me about exam preparation. They all think I’m a top student."

"Impressive!"

Zhao Yi gave a thumbs up enthusiastically, "You could pretend to be a top student; isn’t establishing a personal brand the trend now? Just create a top student persona for yourself, and if your postgraduate exam scores aren’t up to par, post a Weibo to shock your followers."

"Keep it up!"

"Get lost!"

...

The day started with paying attention to Weibo notifications. After a casual stroll and breakfast, Zhao Yi received some good news. A teacher from the academic affairs office called, saying that his application for the philosophy program had passed the review and went on to provide details about the examination.

For a second major, one must take part in the examinations as usual.

The annual exams would cover all subjects. To complete all the exams for philosophy courses, one would need to attend the exams at the end of the year and next June as well as complete an undergraduate thesis.

Nothing else was needed.

For example, the basic public courses, elective courses, and the requirement for a foreign language. Philosophy has a lot of overlap with other disciplines, so just completing the specialized courses and the thesis was sufficient.