Xueba's computing system

Chapter 15: Keep it cool
Lin Yuan still received two days of training at the educational institution, but the training in just two days was naturally not about how to teach.

If we were to summarize the content of these two days of training, it would be in one word: we must maintain our quality.

What’s more important is that after looking at his graduate school entrance notes and grades, the educational institution didn’t even ask him for an admission letter.

Lin Yuan then realized that high-end education and training institutions seemed to have their own network of contacts in major universities, and they all seemed to need to do background checks. That is to say, even if he showed the admission letter, the other party would most likely still do a background check.

Lin Yuan was immediately thankful, "Fortunately I didn't add unnecessary details."

Lin Yuan also learned from educational institutions that with the country's crackdown on the education and training industry, large tutoring institutions have been hit hard, which has benefited small institutions like them.

This institution is a talent training institution, and it no longer runs offline centralized tutoring classes, but instead provides small-class home teaching.

For a time, students from several famous local universities in Zijin became popular.

Compared with the immaturity of undergraduates, graduate students who have experienced the baptism of postgraduate entrance examinations are naturally more popular.

The two 985 universities that rank at the top in Zijin City are Zijin University and Xiangfang University.

The study in these schools is very competitive, and the academic work at the graduate level is far from comparable to that at the undergraduate level, so not many graduate students have the energy to come out and work as tutors.

Next are the six 6 universities in Zijin City.

Although they are all 211, there is a chain of contempt within 211.

For example, the third largest school in terms of funding, Zijin Aviation School. Relying on its strong specialty in aerospace, it is always dissatisfied with the two big brothers above it. It seems to be ready to fight with the sky if it dares.

As a prospective graduate student of Zijin Aviation School, Lin Yuan is naturally quite popular.

More importantly, with AI gaining momentum and chatGPT going viral in the news, families with some assets always want their children to be exposed to the latest technological information in society. Therefore, Lin Yuan's computer science background added points to his success.

Lin Yuan heard feedback from the institution that because he was a computer science major, he was much more popular than graduate students from the mathematics or physics departments of Zijin University.

But in fact, Lin Yuan himself knew very well that the graduate students in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics of Zijin University should be much more valuable than himself.

Lin Yuan realized that a person cannot get higher returns just by having high gold content, but ultimately he or she must realize personal value by meeting the needs of society.

Judging from the graduate salaries of various majors, the computer industry has been hot for many years.

Lin Yuan once again felt the correctness of the computing system.

Fortunately, I didn't study the bland major of mathematics.

Reality is often in contrast to people’s imagination. In the minds of many people, they believe that “mathematics is the mother of natural science” and feel that mathematics is very powerful and invincible.

But statistics don't lie.

Lin Yuan was curious and checked the salaries of math department graduates from various universities. Judging from the average value, the math department is really a shoe-in for the computer department. Because I have only heard of people from the math department transferring to the computer department, but I have never heard of people from the computer department transferring to the math department.

So, the whole mathematics department is like this: I recommend you to study it, but I don’t study it if I study it.

Lin Yuan finally understood: the computer major has stronger tool attributes, while the mathematics major is too theoretical.

Only the best of the best, a handful of people at the top of the pyramid, can work on theory. Given my current level, I'd better just focus on application.

As for ordinary people, they don’t understand the ins and outs of these technological things.

Technology is fair to everyone. Whether you understand it or not has little to do with whether you are rich or poor. It depends on whether you are willing to understand it and whether you have a scientific mindset.

Take chatGPT, which has been very popular this year, for example. In fact, 99% of people in society don’t understand it.

According to the original words of the teacher in charge of attracting customers: Even if you explain the principle to the parents, they still don’t understand, so you just put on an attitude of “you still don’t understand even if I tell you”. Do they buy luxury goods such as brand-name bags just for the convenience?

After hearing this, Lin Yuan suddenly understood. It turned out that the "tutoring" industry had also become a part of luxury consumption, and he himself had become the essence of luxury goods.

No wonder the agency emphasizes that you must maintain your status.

To maintain your status, you must not agree with your parents too much. You must not deliberately hide your poverty. You must show the demeanor of a graduate student from a prestigious university.

It doesn’t matter whether you can teach or not. What matters is that you satisfy the customer’s emotional value.

It’s the same principle as buying BBA these days.

So, Lin Yuan began his daily work life in a high-end residential area at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain.

Lin Yuan, who is not nearsighted, even went out to get a pair of glasses for this purpose.

After taking off the yellow robe, Lin Yuan indeed looked like a scholar. As the saying goes, clothes make the man.

Lin Yuan had been to that community several times to deliver food. Every time, the security guard at the door would confirm with the residents before opening the door and letting anyone in. He would also ask for their ID and mobile phone number, take photos of the delivery staff for record, and set a time limit on when they had to come out.

This time, Lin Yuan went in with a different identity and it felt magical.

He still remembered the security guard at the door, but the other party didn't remember him at all.

Lin Yuan was assigned to teach science to three fifth- and sixth-grade children in a small class. The class location was randomly changed among the three children's homes.

It was not yet the end of summer vacation, but to Lin Yuan's surprise, the families of these three children did not take the final exam seriously at all. To them, it was as if the exam did not exist.

The content taught was not just mathematics, physics and chemistry as Lin Yuan had originally thought.

On the first day of class, three parents showed up specially. The first request they made was, "Teacher Xiaolin, please tell the children more about your study experience and college life. Also, tell them about the history of science and technology development. Just pick out the key points in the textbooks."

Based on the principle of customer first, Lin Yuan let himself go in the first class.

Just because after he looked at the elementary school test paper, Lin Yuan thought: What the hell is this?

Considering the guidance of the computing system and Lin Yuan's personal interests, he loves hands-on practice. And computer science is a subject that emphasizes practice. Therefore, Lin Yuan's view on the questions on the elementary school math test paper is to make a fool of himself.

"This question is a deliberate trap for you. How many flights of stairs do you have to climb from the first floor to the third floor? In the computer world, there is no such thing as starting from 1. We are used to calling the first floor: 0 floor. Then the question becomes: How many flights of stairs do you have to climb from the 0 floor to the 2 floor? That's two flights. Isn't the original question just forcing difficulty on itself?"

"And this question is a trick. The real purpose of question analysis is to cultivate your ability to extract abstract rules from real things, rather than deliberately complicating simple problems or deliberately kneading a clear and logical yarn into a ball and throwing it to you to unravel.

Don't worry. Anyone who dares to do this when writing code will be kicked out. "

Although Lin Yuan has not participated in any large-scale software projects, he has read the codes of many excellent open source projects. He knows that a good design must be well-organized.

Lin Yuan could only sigh, "After so many years, why are you still going through everything we went through back then?"

He finally understood why these parents didn't attach so much importance to the final exams.

Anyway, we are still a long way off from the far-reaching college entrance examinations, so why bother with the primary school curriculum?

Lin Yuan came to take half-day classes every Saturday or Sunday. The course lasted four hours, including the time for going to the toilet and eating snacks. These parents had even made an appointment for Lin Yuan's summer tutoring class.

Thanks to his unconventional teaching style, Lin Yuan's hourly wage easily reached 200 yuan.

After two classes, Lin Yuan also had some insights from chatting with these parents. They were not completely out of money, but just wanted their children to get in touch with some knowledge outside the classroom.

This made Lin Yuan more aware that the biggest difference between people may lie in the environment and guidance.

(End of this chapter)