You said you failed your college entrance exam and are now crowdfunding to build a university?

The next day, they continued their meetings to discuss and advance the research findings.

The 100 students who participated in the research project went to the base in their spare time to perform auxiliary tasks, such as helping to assemble devices, operate ignition, and take notes during meetings.

During the process, everyone deeply experienced the hard work of researchers and sincerely admired teachers such as Qi Limin. The seeds of scientific research were quietly planted in everyone's heart.

One month later, at the Qinglong Campus, in the principal's office.

Wei Ying opened his email and looked at the teaching progress reports submitted by various colleges.

This includes the teaching progress of teachers in each subject, as well as the status of academic research papers. Teaching is progressing smoothly, and students are required to write a research paper on the content of each professional course, which greatly promotes students' mastery and understanding of the textbook knowledge.

In terms of academic papers, teachers from 197 majors across 27 colleges successfully published 42 SCI papers.

"Good progress." After reading the report, Wei Ying nodded slightly, quite satisfied.

The textbooks he compiled are all derived from top knowledge in various fields, and are condensed versions of the essence, so they will be difficult to learn at first.

Using essays to learn from textbooks is indeed a good method, although it is inhumane and extremely cruel. However, the benefits to students are obvious, equivalent to completing the second year of a regular university course.

Furthermore, these courses also include many cutting-edge theoretical achievements. According to his estimate, by the end of the first semester, students at Haichuan University will be able to learn all the undergraduate knowledge of other universities, and the overall level of teachers and students across the university is improving rapidly.

"It's time to prepare for the midterm exams," Wei Ying murmured, his eyes gleaming.

Now that two months have passed since the start of the school year, an exam is urgently needed to assess students' grasp of the knowledge and the true effectiveness of teaching.

Midterm exams do exist in universities, but many universities are quite lenient about them, even allowing students to bring their phones to the exam.

"Let the subject teachers set the questions," Wei Ying said after some deliberation. He finally decided to hand over the task of setting the exam questions to the subject teachers.

The exam is scheduled for a week from now. The research project at the experimental base has reached a crucial stage, and he cannot leave his post.

Half a day later, the news of the midterm exams spread throughout the university, leaving the eight thousand students somewhat taken aback.

"Holy crap?! Midterms in college? This is completely different from what my high school teachers told me."

"That's right. My high school teacher once said that if you work hard in your senior year of high school, college will be easy and you can play around as much as you want."

"Can you trust your high school teacher? He didn't tell you that college assignments are papers."

"Oh no, midterms are next week, I need to start studying now."

Despite their frustration, students from all majors did not dare to slack off and immediately began reviewing the textbook content from the past two months.

Their figures could be seen everywhere in the dormitories and study rooms. It was during this review that they discovered that they had actually mastered the profound and obscure knowledge in the textbooks!

And I remember it very clearly! It's called a review, but it's really just a reinforcement.

Yenching University, President's Office.

Yu Tianzhou stared at Xu Yan, his face extremely gloomy.

"In just one month, Haichuan University has published another 42 SCI-indexed papers!"

"Where did he get these unpublished, top-tier academic papers?!"

His face was full of doubt and confusion. He couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried. For the past month, academic research papers from Haichuan University had been coming out in large quantities, almost one a day, and every single one of them was indexed by SCI.

In contrast, Yenching University only published two papers during this period! A difference of forty times! Logically speaking, even if Haichuan University has connections and resources to obtain unpublished top-level academic papers, it shouldn't have been able to get so many.

After all, top-tier academic papers aren't like cabbages that you can just buy in bulk!

"Principal, I've spoken with many leading figures in academia these past few days, and they all say they've never heard of anyone buying academic papers," Xu Yan said cautiously, swallowing hard.

"Is it possible that these are all papers researched by professors at Haichuan University?" In his view, if Haichuan University really bought these papers, there must be someone in the academic community who knew about it.

However, after visiting many leading figures in academia, he found that none of them had ever heard of buying academic papers.

"They did the research themselves?" Yu Tianzhou frowned. He had looked into the faculty team at Haichuan University, and only Lu Jianhua among them was truly influential.

Although the others all started with professorships, their overall achievements were far inferior to those of Yenching University!

Why is it that Yenching University published two papers, while Haichuan University published forty-two?!

"Forget it, let's not worry about it." He waved his hand, deciding to put this troublesome matter aside. The foundation of a university cannot be built simply by publishing a few academic papers.

Why is it that Yenching University published two papers, while Haichuan University published forty-two?!

"Forget it, let's not worry about it." He waved his hand, deciding to put this troublesome matter aside. The foundation of a university cannot be built simply by publishing a few academic papers.

"By the way, isn't Haichuan University working on controlled nuclear fusion? It's been a month, have they released any progress reports yet?" He then looked at Xu Yan, suddenly raising an eyebrow and asking with a hint of sarcasm on his face.

"I haven't heard anything about that." Xu Yan thought for a moment and shook his head.

Generally speaking, research projects have a long cycle, and the progress of the project is announced every once in a while.

But now a month has passed, and Haichuan University has suddenly gone silent, without any activity whatsoever. It's even disappeared from the trending topics list.

"Do they think they can get away with it after bragging and fading from public view?" Yu Tianzhou sneered and said quietly.

"Think of a way to get some momentum going for Haichuan University. I'm sure many netizens are also curious about the progress of this project at Haichuan University."

He remembered very clearly that when Haichuan University announced its controlled nuclear fusion research plan, it caused quite a stir across the internet. The internet may not have a memory of that, but he did.

Half a day later, a topic titled "Research Progress of Haichuan University" suddenly appeared on the Internet and was widely forwarded.

The topic is gaining popularity as many people are asking about controlled nuclear fusion.

"I almost forgot if you hadn't mentioned it. How's the controlled nuclear fusion research at Haichuan University going?"

"A third of the three months have already passed, why haven't we heard anything from Haichuan University during this time?"

"Haichuan University, come out and say something."

"I thought this research plan was unrealistic from the beginning, and now it seems to be just a gimmick."

More and more netizens have joined in, asking about the progress of controlled nuclear fusion and wanting to know the research progress.