The "Structural Elements" that Xia Xiaolan is holding is the work of Professor McCarthy, which is very common in the United States. The price of textbooks is high, and the publication fee for writing textbooks is naturally high. The content of their own lectures is compiled into professional textbooks and published. When they teach, they don¡¯t choose their own works, do they choose other people¡¯s?
For example, Professor McCarthy's "Structural Elements" has been tested in teaching and can be used as a textbook for the architecture major of 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 it within 15 hours!
Xia Xiaolan still has a lot to read, everyone else has started school for a month, Xia Xiaolan has to catch up with the progress.
She felt dizzy as soon as she opened "Structural Elements". She felt that her English level was pretty 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 the Huaqing Library have not involved the original English version yet!
Seeing her pale face, Hu Ying made her a cup of coffee, and blamed Professor Wen for being too harsh, scaring Xia Xiaolan.
Professor Wen groaned while sitting in the wheelchair:
"That's McCarthy! Of all my colleagues, the one you dislike the most, and I'm not lying!"
Hu Ying thought of the only time McCarthy came to the house as a guest, and couldn't help but show a resisting expression.
"difficult to get along with."
It is difficult to get along with colleagues, what kind of warmth can you say to students?
Xia Xiaolan became more and more desperate.
In the beginning, she could still ask Professor Wen, even though Professor Wen didn't teach this class, he was still a professor of the Department of Architecture after all, and the professional vocabulary couldn't be difficult for Professor Wen, who took Xia Xiaolan to preview it.
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 her for more than an hour, and she was obviously not in good spirits.
It's not that Xia Xiaolan's EQ is so low, how can she let Professor Wen stay up late with her?
Quickly persuaded Professor Wen to go to rest, and asked Hu Ying to make a large pot of coffee for her, Xia Xiaolan fought alone.
It is a little troublesome for people whose mother tongue is not English. When reading English textbooks, you have to convert the content into Chinese first in your mind, and then try to understand. Xia Xiaolan's English level has always been good. In the past, this process was infinitely shortened. Read a newspaper Or magazines can think fluently, but she gets stuck from time to time when encountering professional textbooks.
Don't even think about sleeping at night.
She squinted for about half an hour, and read the first few chapters of "Structural Elements".
The next day, she felt sluggish when she walked, and Hu Ying thought that her condition was difficult even for riding a bicycle, so she insisted on driving her to school.
There is no other way but to leave Professor Wen alone at home.
Seeing Xia Xiaolan yawning unceasingly, Hu Ying sympathized with her:
"Little poor, this is the daily life of Cornell University."
Universities in the United States seem to be freer than university life in Huaguo. University life can be extremely exciting, and the school doesn't care whether the students are in a relationship or not, or whether they live in the dormitory But people have the same energy, so there is no reason to waste it People of this race must be smarter and more energetic than people of the yellow race. If you want to live a wonderful life and get an A in your studies, what can you do if you don¡¯t stay up late?
In a group of excellent students, if you want to stand out, you have to work harder than others.
Hu Ying told Xia Xiaolan that this was normal, Xia Xiaolan patted her face hard, and looked for the classroom with her book in her arms.
The arc-shaped lecture hall is very large, and it is no problem to seat two or three hundred people. However, there are only twenty or thirty people in the classroom at this time. Xia Xiaolan is late, and Ning Xue and others have already arrived.
Sitting together in twos and threes, I still want to make a final confirmation of the completion of the homework before Professor McCarthy arrives.
In front of Ning Xue and the others, there were various models, which should be the homework left by Professor McCarthy last time.
Xia Xiaolan was empty-handed and didn't know anyone, so she just found a seat and sat down.
She is so beautiful, she was warmly accepted by hotel alumni yesterday, but when she walked into this classroom, the air pressure was too low, and everyone was a poor creature under Professor McCarthy's high-handed rule. These architectural students who met for the first time, I'm really not in the mood to pay attention to Xia Xiaolan's beauty.
Beautiful Asian face Heh, looking at it twice seems like a crime, and the face of Professor McCarthy immediately came to mind!
Xiaolan Xia?It is rare to be treated coldly.
Seeing her alone, Ning Xue probably remembered the scene when she first entered school, ignored her yesterday, but talked to her today:
"Have you previewed?"
Ning Xue pointed to the textbook.
Xia Xiaolan's face turned blue, "15 hours, is it enough?"
Ning Xue shook her head, "It will take at least a week to read "Structural Elements" intensively, but you should have just arrived in the United States, and there is no timethen I wish you good luck."
The Xia Xiaolan that Ning Xue said was even more guilty.
There was a sound of footsteps, the big classroom was silent, and a short white professor stepped into the classroom.
He can reduce the volume of students' hair to only half in one semester, but his own hair is very thick and curly. He wears a suit meticulously and holds a briefcase in his hand. The most prominent feature on his face is the aquiline nose.
"There is one more person today."
Professor McCarthy put the briefcase on the desk, "What's going on this year, there are so many students from Huaguo, new students, please introduce yourself!"
Xia Xiaolan tried her best to keep a smile on her face, and quickly introduced herself.
The name can be introduced casually, and the face of the alma mater cannot be lost.
"Hua-tsing university", when Xia Xiaolan said it, the words were in a round accent.
McCarthy pointed to Ning Xue, seemingly unable to remember what Ning Xue's name was, "from a school."
Just as Ning Xue was mentioned, McCarthy simply walked up to Ning Xue and began to check the homework.
After all, Ning Xue is also a leader in Huaqing's Department of Architecture. She is an undergraduate student who can publish papers in China. With Professor McCarthy, she is not qualified to be remembered?
Xia Xiaolan didn't feel gloating at all, this only shows that Professor McCarthy is really scary.
She thought it was mean, but she immediately saw something more mean.
In the eyes of Professor McCarthy, there is probably no such thing as "sufficient". All assignments are only qualified or unqualified. He picks out all kinds of faults for the qualified ones, and pushes the unqualified ones to the ground. He doesn't even bother to give the evaluation In the classroom , There are more than one student with tears rolling in their eyes.
Except for her and Ning Xue, these are all confident American students, but they can't bear the pressure.
Although Ning Xue's group's homework was picked on a lot of mistakes, they haven't been pushed to the ground anyway.
Xia Xiaolan didn't care about the self-esteem of others, and McCarthy's abnormality immediately fell on her. This class was definitely Xia Xiaolan's nightmare. Throughout the class, McCarthy was looking for her, a new exchange student, to answer questions¡ª¡ª
After Xia Xiaolan was reborn, she met gods and killed gods, met ghosts and exterminated ghosts, and this was the first time she was stumbled when asked, hanged up and tortured! (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com