I'm a scientist, why can't I have faith?

An office in the Yenching University administration building.

Su Tiangong is talking to an elderly man with gray hair.

"Teacher, do you mean... the government has approved it?"

"That's right, the plan you missed back then has been restarted."

The old man looked at his student with regret, thinking that the student should be standing in a higher and farther position now.

Su Tiangong sensed the regret in his teacher's voice, and he smiled helplessly:

"Then what's the point of telling me all this? I'm way too old now."

Qian Xiuyuan felt a pang of sadness as he looked at the forlorn figures of his students.

"I've nominated you to be in charge of the selection process at Yenching University. Do a good job and don't embarrass me."

...

"Sir, wake up, we've arrived."

Su Tiangong opened his eyes and realized that he had fallen asleep in the car without realizing it, and even dreamed about the scene of going to see his teacher yesterday.

He shook his head, paid the driver, and walked into a classroom according to the address in his mind.

"Everyone, please welcome our senior, Su Tiangong, to share his experience studying at Yuanpei University."

Amidst the applause of the new students, Su Tiangong walked onto the podium.

"Hello everyone, I'm Su Tiangong, a student from Yuanpei College ten years ago..."

Wang Dong listened to his senior's experience sharing from the audience and was greatly shocked.

From his first day at university to his studies, life, and career planning, Wang Dong had only ever seen Su Tiangong's resume in novels.

The senior student in front of him was only in his early thirties, yet he was already at the level of deputy chief designer of the First Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology. Wang Dong didn't know exactly how impressive that was.

But he knew that the rockets used in current space launches were designed by this man.

Anyone who has built rockets knows how complex and intricate the process is.

This means that he not only needs to graduate with a doctorate before the age of 27, but also needs to enter major national missions such as the Long March series, manned spaceflight, and Mars and lunar exploration as soon as he graduates, and also needs to independently solve key technical problems.

Only then can one become the deputy chief designer.

His peers at this age were generally just getting out of the menial jobs and becoming engineers, able to perform specific tasks.

He is already one of the candidates to lead the country's aerospace industry in the future.

It's a truly magical feeling to have such a legendary figure standing alive in front of Wang Dong, giving a speech.

It's like you go out to buy groceries and run into the head of the family; someone you might never see in your entire life suddenly appears in front of you.

There is only a strong sense of disconnect.

And this is only a part of the resources that Yenching University can provide to its students.

"This concludes my sharing of my academic journey at Peking University. I hope it will be helpful to you."

"Oh, the school also assigned me a task: to ask everyone to fill out this questionnaire to help the school understand you all."

Wang Dong took out his phone and scanned the QR code; an anonymous survey popped up.

The questions were all about his personality and habits, and Wang Dong answered them truthfully.

"Senior Su is really amazing. Even though we are both students at Yenching University, I never imagined that I could become such an amazing person."

Gong Zhan expressed his feelings, and the others all agreed.

"Classes officially start tomorrow. Have you all arranged your schedules?"

Qiu Zhe raised his question, mainly wanting to know the intensity of his roommates' studies, fearing that he would fall behind.

Unlike other departments, Yuanpei College does not have a fixed curriculum. For the first two years of university life, apart from the required public courses and general education courses, students can freely arrange their timetables across all departments and majors in the university.

The only requirement is that you need to earn a certain number of credits to graduate.

"I've already made my choices. Tomorrow, I'll have a class on mathematical analysis from the School of Mathematical Sciences, followed by an introduction to artificial intelligence from the School of Information Science and Technology. In the evening, I'll also have a class on mechanics from the School of Physics."

"Wang Dong and I are about the same age."

"You guys also chose AI in the School of Information Science and Technology?"

Although Qiu Zhe's course selection leans more towards biology and chemistry, he also chose the Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in the School of Information Science.

"Of course, AI is developing so rapidly now, we definitely have to keep up with the times. Oh, of course, Tang Xiu probably didn't choose it."

"Stop making baseless accusations; we liberal arts students also need to learn about AI, okay?"

Tang Xiu cleared his throat and righteously corrected Gong Zhan.

In the past two years, there have been continuous reports about artificial intelligence, and even a three-year-old knows that the era of AI is coming.

As students of Yenching University, we should be at the forefront of the times, and regardless of whether we are in the humanities or sciences, we should have some understanding of AI.

Wang Dong didn't participate much in his roommates' discussions, but he enjoyed the atmosphere.

Although his social skills are average, he enjoys the lively atmosphere, which is one of the reasons why he wants to change himself.

Classes will officially start tomorrow, and to be honest, he's quite looking forward to it.

He was also quite curious to see who would prevail between himself, upgraded by the [Believer System], and these big shots from all over the country.

...

"Teacher, this is the initial list I've selected."

Su Tiangong placed the documents he had just compiled on Qian Xiuyuan's desk.

This is the list he selected based on questionnaires filled out by students of Yuanpei College.

While the questionnaires appear anonymous, they are actually matched one-to-one with each student, which is technically not difficult.

Anonymity is simply to allow students to express their true thoughts.

"The questionnaire is the initial screening, and the background check is the second screening. Although we don't know how capable they are, there shouldn't be any problems from the political background check."

Qian Xiuyuan picked up the list and glanced through it. This year, Yuanpei College recruited a total of 316 students, but after Su Tiangong's screening, there were fewer than 100 names on the list.

Two-thirds of the students were eliminated.

"Are you sure there won't be any problems after filtering out so many?"

Su Tiangong adjusted his glasses and said in an extremely rational tone:

"The only possibility is that there's a problem with the background check."

The implication is that there couldn't possibly be a problem with his questionnaire.

Even when facing his favorite student, Qian Xiuyuan did not slack off in the slightest.

"How can you be sure that the information the students filled out on the questionnaire was all true?"

"Whether it's true or not doesn't matter, as long as the result he filled in meets my requirements."

Su Tiangong revealed his extremely confident aura, something he hadn't done in a long time.

"If you can't even do this, you're not a genius, and you'll never be able to get into the final plan."

Qian Xiuyuan was very pleased; Su Tiangong was finally showing the genius he had shown in the past few years.

"Okay, I will pay close attention to these students."

"While we wait for them to prove themselves, you should finish your tasks at the First Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology so you can fully dedicate yourself to this place as soon as possible."

"I will try my best to persuade others."

Su Tiangong bowed deeply to his teacher, then returned to the First Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology without hesitation. The project he was working on was nearing completion and would be finished in six months at most.

Qian Xiuyuan watched his student's departing figure from the window and sighed silently:

"As expected, geniuses truly understand geniuses..."