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In the first week of school, after eight months, Xu Qiu will start class again.

Direct Ph.D. students have to take a total of 42 credits. Except for the exempted English courses and 4 credits of academic activities and teaching practice, there are not many remaining credits. He plans to spend two years to complete the study.

This semester, Xu Qiu took a total of 9 credits of courses, a 3-credit degree basic course "Functional Materials", a 3-credit degree professional course "Polymer Physics II", a 2-credit professional elective course "Composite Materials ", there is also a 1-credit compulsory "Materials Engineering Laboratory Safety and Management".

"Materials Engineering Laboratory Safety and Management" is a new compulsory course for graduate students this year.

According to the counselor, the reason for offering this course is that the country has begun to attach importance to laboratory safety. The general form is to first pull students together to learn laboratory safety knowledge, and learn about the tragic situation after accidents in other schools’ laboratories through PPT. The department arranges a unified assessment of their respective learning materials.

As for how to conduct the assessment, the departments are still discussing.

In principle, students who fail the assessment will not be allowed to conduct experiments until they pass the make-up examination.

Looking at it this way, Xu Qiu's freshmen have been regarded as "guinea pigs" for a while. The school plans to use them as a pilot to formulate a set of effective laboratory safety education testing and evaluation methods, and then implement this policy to senior graduate students.

The starting point is indeed good. As for the specific effect, it is difficult to say, because after thinking about it, we know that this kind of assessment is mostly in the form of an exam, with a bunch of questions and then answering them.

However, this kind of assessment is not difficult for the graduate students of Shanghai Comprehensive University. After all, the students who can come here have a strong test-taking ability. assessment.

Then one month after the assessment, and two months later, I will forget about it. When I really encounter an emergency, 80% of them will not think of the questions I answered before.

Unless you have to take the test every month, but that is unrealistic, it is too much trouble, and it also means giving up eating because of choking.

Moreover, although the students are performing experimental operations on the front line, the source of this safety problem is actually the instructor, not the students.

If the instructor has a strong sense of security, then most likely he will require the same from his students, and vice versa.

However, compared with students, tutors are much less malleable. Most of them are close to 40 or even 40+ when they can become tutors. Many concepts have been fixed and difficult to change. For example: some old professors enter the laboratory I don't like wearing gloves, and then fumble around, nothing...

Many times, you will face an embarrassing situation, that is, you know there is a problem, but it is not easy to use the knife.

This is also a major feature of the country: "If you control it, you will die, and if you release it, you will be chaotic."

But in any case, the construction of laboratory safety education is correct from a long-term perspective, so it must be done, no matter how difficult it is, no matter how slow the effect is.

The other three courses, according to the information of Chen Wanqing, Tian Qing, Wu Feifei and other seniors, are not named, and the teaching time is on Thursday, with two sessions in the morning and four consecutive sessions in the afternoon, which just takes up one day. Xu Qiu thought it was good, and it was more convenient for him to arrange experiments.

Specifically, the teacher of "Functional Materials" is the professor who taught "Inorganic Functional Materials" when he was an undergraduate. He can only read PPT without thinking, and he runs outside the classroom to play with his mobile phone after class. Doing a PPT is the kind that does not require a speech as long as you do PTT. Therefore, this course was unanimously selected as "the best course in the Department of Materials" by the three seniors. It is not one of them, and it is still 3 credits. arrive;

Although "Polymer Physics II" is a compulsory course, this course is an extension of the undergraduate "Polymer Condensed Matter Physics", and only about 20% more advanced content is added, which is basically not difficult for Xu Qiu;

"Composite Materials", Xu Qiu took a course with the same name, and the teacher was Yu Qiang, an undergraduate counselor. The postgraduate course arranged by Yu Qiang only changed the courseware into English, adding about 20% of the advanced content, but it was to reduce the burden on graduate students. In consideration of this, Yu Qiang changed the final exam from closed-book to open-book, which actually reduced the energy required.

Judging from the arrangement of these courses, the advantages of the students in the school's department and department are still very large.

On the one hand, there are only a few teachers who come and go, and they all offer both undergraduate courses and graduate courses, so when they offer graduate courses, there is a high probability that they will change the undergraduate courses and add some content to them. For the students of our school, compared with re-studying once;

On the other hand, students from this school's department can more or less get acquainted with the teacher. Under the same performance, the probability of getting good grades is much higher than that of students from other schools.

On Wednesday, Xu Qiu has basically completed the article on the IDIC system. The only difference is the two characterizations of the light source and the third-party performance test of NIM.

For the articles in the material mouth, there is one advantage of submitting to AM, that is, even if it is rejected and transferred to AEM or AFM, it can be accepted, at least it will eventually fall into the journals of the first district.

If you are rejected for JACS, you may have to transfer to CM, and if you are rejected for EES, you may be transferred to JMCA, and JMCA and CM are journals in the first division of the major category and the second division of the minor category. Compared with AEM in terms of article division , AFM is worse.

In the evening, counselor Bao Wei organized the first class meeting after the start of school, and the location was chosen to be in the conference room on the second floor of Xiancai.

On the one hand, this class meeting is for the students to get to know each other and choose a class leader; Personal information form, student ID card, etc.

Xu Qiu couldn't figure out the way this new counselor would go, and wondered if he was the nagging type like Yu Qiang, the undergraduate counselor.

So, carrying his computer on his back, he came to the meeting room fifteen minutes earlier and found a corner to sit down.

After a while, Sun Yifan passed by Xu Qiu and said hello to Xu Qiu, but he did not choose to sit next to Xu Qiu, but walked to the front row of the classroom and sat down.

The choice of seats can also reflect the personalities of different people. Xu Qiu is more introverted, while Sun Yifan is more extroverted.

As the appointed time approached, more people came to the class meeting one after another. The counselor Bao Wei had already arrived, standing on the podium to collect materials.

Xu Qiu has a general understanding of the students of this year's material department.

There are 30 Ph.D. students, including 5 direct Ph.D. students, 8 combined Master and Ph.D students, and 16 of the remaining 17 are three-year Ph.

In fact, those who want to study directly in this school basically take the path of direct master-doctoral studies, and rarely go to the doctoral exam, because the difficulty of transferring from a master's degree to a doctorate in our school is not high, and basically one or two SCI second districts are enough. .

That unlucky guy didn't succeed in transferring from a master's degree to a Ph.D. because the competition pressure of the last year's combined master's and doctoral program was relatively high. Originally, there were only 6 places for the combined master's and doctoral program, but the department had 8 applicants, and finally the department gave extra I got a place in our school, and 7 were admitted, leaving him alone...

In the end, he chose to continue studying for a doctorate. He took the route of graduating from a master's degree and then taking a doctoral exam. It would take an extra year to study, which was a disadvantage.

Moreover, he was one grade younger than his fellow students who were studying in the same year for both Master and Ph.D. They all had their second Ph.

Just like Xu Qiu’s roommate, Ren Bin, chose to join the army and return to school, and after two years, he came back to study in graduate school.

In addition, this year there are 34 students for Master of Science and 15 for Professional Masters. Among the masters, 23 people are admitted by the school, 15 people are admitted by other schools, and the remaining 11 are admitted by the postgraduate entrance examination. It is biased towards recruiting those who are directly researched by the school and the department.

Xu Qiu handed in the written materials, returned to his seat, a little bored, took out the computer, and started writing the article on J2: IDIC-4F while charging and typing.

He plans to submit this article to the major sub-journal of "Nature", "Nature·Energy", the template can just use the template of the previous submission to NC, and the typesetting of the "Nature" series of articles is relatively similar, so you can directly refer to it.

While Xu Qiu was typing, a female voice came from the side: "Is there anyone here?"

Xu Qiu didn't stop typing on the keyboard, and responded casually: "No one."

The other party's voice was quite nice, Xu Qiu couldn't help turning his head to take a look.

'Oh, strange girl, she looks rich. '

'Since you don't know each other, it means that you are either from a foreign school, or you are a combined master and doctoral student. '

‘Of course, the specifics are not very important, and most likely there will be no intersection. '

'Sister or something, it can't affect the speed of my coding at all. '

Xu Qiu continued to concentrate on writing articles.

He didn't choose to play acrobatics, and honestly followed the idea of ​​"surrounding the city from the countryside", starting with the experimental part, and finally writing the abstract and introduction part, although he is very concerned about the highlights of the J2:IDIC-4F system, as well as the article The writing ideas and so on are already very familiar.

After all, when writing, all kinds of inspiration will burst out, and it is possible to fine-tune the previously thought-out writing ideas at any time.

If you write out the abstract and introduction first, then you will be in trouble if you need to revise the text.

When the time came to 6:00 p.m., the counselor Bao Wei collected the materials and began to preside over the class meeting.

He first made a simple self-introduction: "Hello everyone, I am Bao Wei, the counselor of the graduate students of the 1x-level materials department. Welcome new students to join the materials department. My office is in room 511 of Handan Xiancai. You can send me WeChat, call me or come to the office to find me at any time..."

"Some of the students are from the school's department, some are from other schools, and some are from the postgraduate entrance examination.

"In addition, some are master's students and some are doctoral students, and they may not be very familiar with each other.

"Then let each student make a brief self-introduction. In about a minute, everyone is an adult, so don't be too shy.

"Let's start from this side first, one at a time in the order of the snake." After finishing speaking, Bao Wei casually pointed to the students sitting in the first row near the door.

Xu Qiu looked up, and Bao Wei happened to be referring to his own row. ‘It’s just that, after introducing myself earlier, I can concentrate on coding earlier, which is not bad. '

Soon, when it was Xu Qiu's turn, he got up in a regular manner and introduced it. He didn't mention any articles he had posted or anything. He just chatted awkwardly for a long time, and talked for a full minute:

"Xu Qiu, a native of X province, undergraduate is Magic City Comprehensive University, a direct Ph. ..."

Because Xu Qiu was sitting in the corner, the girl next to him introduced him after he finished speaking.

Although he said in his heart that he didn't care, he still involuntarily raised his ears.

"My name is Mu Xue. I'm from Shanghai. My undergraduate degree is Qingbei University. I'm a direct Ph.D. student in Baoyan. My advisor is Mu Zhengchuan..."

Hearing this, many people looked back curiously.

Xu Qiu couldn't help complaining in his heart: "An undergraduate from Qingbei University, a direct Ph.D. graduate from Baoyan University, unexpectedly went to Shanghai University of Magic City. This wave of operations is in place." '

However, he thought about it carefully: "Mu Xue is from Shanghai, and it's normal for a graduate student to return to Shanghai, just like a school girl who could have gone abroad, but because her family didn't want her to go too far, so she stayed in China." . '

'In addition, Mu Zhengchuan is a professor in the Materials Department, and he seems to produce a lot of articles, but he is relatively low-key. Mu Xue and Mu Zhengchuan don't have any relationship, after all, the surname Mu is relatively rare. '

‘Why do you think about this, let’s continue to code. '

Afterwards, everyone introduced one by one, and Xu Qiu occasionally listened to a few sentences while typing.

There are quite a few names of acquaintances, Sun Yifan, Tao Yan, Sun Wo...

After a round of introductions, Bao Wei continued to host: "Next, we will vote for the class cadres. Students who are interested in being elected as class cadres please raise your hands."

There were not many people responding in the audience, only five or six. Mu Xue was one of them, Tao Yan also raised his hand, but Sun Yifan and Sun Wo did not raise their hands.

If the class cadres of undergraduates still have such a slight role, the class cadres of graduate students are basically purely serving others, and at most they can gain a wave of goodwill from their classmates.

It is not very useful for scholarship evaluation, job hunting, further study, etc., and it will squeeze the time for scientific research to a certain extent.

Just like in Wei Xingsi's group, there is no one who is a class leader, which can explain the situation...

But no matter what, there are always some people who like to do student work.

Seeing that there were not many people responding, Bao Wei temporarily revised the plan, saying: "Since there are not many people participating in the election, we will not set up an election. I know that everyone's time is precious. Then please be willing to be a cadre on duty. The people who stay here, let's discuss the distribution of duties together, and the others can leave."

"It's over? The young counselor is really more efficient and doesn't procrastinate." Xu Qiu muttered, closed the computer, picked up his backpack and returned to Material One.

PS: The 3rd 4D is over today, ask for a monthly pass.