Time Travel: 2014

The response receipt from MIT was a notification letter:

"Dear classmate Lin Hui

On behalf of the Admissions Committee, I am pleased to offer you admission to MIT for 2014…

… When you join MIT, you join a community of like-minded people: scholars, builders, entrepreneurs, and humanitarians.

We believe you and MIT are a great match for each other..."

There was a lot written in the email, and the general idea was to warmly welcome Lin Hui, a student from Lin Hui, to study computer science at MIT.

It is worth mentioning that the computer science major Lin Hui studied at MIT is somewhat different from the computer science and technology major he studied in his previous life.

Computer majors in top foreign universities are generally divided into two majors: computer science and computer engineering.

It sounds like these two majors are very close, but in fact they are different.

Computer science (CS for short) studies algorithms, computability, programming languages, etc. from the perspective of computer computing.

It is more like a science, focusing on theoretical studies such as computational principles and algorithms.

Mathematics and logic are more important in this project.

Computer Engineering (CE) studies circuits, electronics, VLSI design, etc. from the perspective of computer engineering design.

It is an applied discipline, essentially an engineering discipline.

Domestic universities generally do not deliberately distinguish between computer science and computer engineering, and often mix the two together.

Judging from his past life experience, Lin Hui is obviously better at computer science than computer engineering.

When it comes to computer engineering, it drives people crazy every minute.

It's simply not something people learn.

The notification letter also informed Lin Hui of the start time of school.

What surprised Lin Hui a little was that in this time and space, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology officially opened in late July.

Lin Hui remembered that in his previous life, American universities basically started at the end of August, and the second semester started at the beginning of January.

Things seem to be a little different in this time and space.

But that’s fine, it’s really too late to start school.

With Lin Hui's growth rate, Lin Hui might have to hesitate again.

Officially received admission notice.

Well, so I'm almost a freshman at MIT.

At this time, Lin Hui was truly happy.

It is different from stealing names in the college entrance examination.

Although the current Lin Hui is a bit similar to stealing the light.

But it's still a little different from the previous ones.

In addition to Lin Hui from the previous papers, there are tens of thousands of people in this time and space who can do the questions on the papers.

But Lin Hui was able to obtain the generative text summarization algorithm that qualified for MIT admission.

It seemed that only Lin Hui could clearly explain what was going on in this time and space.

Therefore, even Lin Hui who stole the name deserves it.

After receiving the MIT CS admission notice, what does Lin Hui want to do?

It seems that I can post it on Moments to celebrate.

Although this is very pretentious.

Uh, but it seems too hateful.

Wait, it seems like we can publish a paper!

Lin Hui suddenly thought of this.

In fact, Lin Hui had thought about publishing a paper before.

But at that time, Lin Hui felt that publishing a paper as a high school student might be a bit shocking, so he shelved the idea.

But things are different now. Now Lin Hui has transformed into a prospective freshman majoring in computer science at MIT.

With this level of status, it seems that Lin Hui is not too much to poke a hole in the sky at an academic level.

Is MIT good at computer science?

Of course it’s cool!

Take, for example, the content of professional courses learned by computer majors around the world.

Almost half of the content is inextricably related to the computer science major at MIT.

At this point in time, MIT’s computer science major is well-deserved to be number one in the world.

Of course, it’s the same as having two top universities in the country.

There are also two universities with the world's number one computer science major.

The other one besides MIT is Stanford University.

The two schools can be said to be evenly matched in computer science.

(Generally speaking, UC Berkeley computers are not weak either.

However, in the eyes of Chinese people, branch schools generally have little sense of existence)

Despite this, MIT remains one of the most competitive universities in the world.

The threshold for such an institution is naturally extremely high.

After receiving my admission offer from MIT.

Lin Hui saw the announcement from MIT on the official website of MIT:

This year, MIT received a total of 18,356 undergraduate and 19,446 graduate applications for the 2014-15 academic year.

Only 1447 (7.9%) and 2991 (15.4%) applicants were admitted respectively.

The number of students who actually study may be even less. After all, the choice is two-way.

Although some people can be admitted, they willfully choose not to go.

This is of course very feasible, but Lin Hui still can't do this willfully in a short period of time.

There is no need to be too willful, steady development is the last word.

At this time, I was very happy to be one of the 1,447 lucky people.

After all, Lin Hui was currently at a level that many people would find difficult to reach in their lifetimes.

As far as this time is concerned.

It is truly an honor to be a member of MIT’s computer science program.

But at the same time, Lin Hui also knew clearly.

It won't be long before he becomes the pride of MIT.

Studying at MIT is just the beginning for Lin Hui, and there is still a long way to go.

In addition, thinking about the future is still a bit far away now, and the most important thing is to grasp the present.

A thousand miles begins with a single step.

In the short term, Lin Hui still needs to move forward step by step.

You may not be able to go very fast this way.

But it will definitely go smoothly.

Lin Hui must also walk very steadily!

Even though Lin Hui is not involved in politics, he is still burdened with the big secret of traveling across time and space.

The path Lin Hui wants to take has no room for missteps.

At this point, Lin Hui’s most secure way forward academically is to publish a few papers.

Even publishing a paper is not something that comes out of nowhere.

After all, Lin Hui had already obtained patents related to generative text summarization.

After applying for a patent, it is also common sense to publish several papers as supplementary explanations for the previous patent.

But which specific field of research should be published?

This is a problem.

This shouldn't have been a problem originally.

According to Lin Hui's original idea, it would be good if the entire generative text summary could be published as a paper in a journal with a relatively high impact factor.

But Lin Hui never expected that in this time and space, people's research on natural language processing would be really slow.

At least that's the case based on the previous email Eve Carly sent to Lin Hui.