Chapter 340 The People in the Next Dormitory Are Really Funny
Cecilia wiped the sweat from her forehead and suppressed the resentment in her eyes. When she looked at Jasmine and the others again, she had already put on a smile. "I've helped you move all your stuff."
Jasmine, Hestia, and Selene didn't even glance at her and went straight upstairs.
The smile on Cecilia's face froze slightly. She stood there for two seconds before returning to dorm 112.
Isabella and Kennedy had already finished dinner and were sitting on the couch watching a TV series.
Cecilia frowned when she saw how relaxed Isabella and Kennedy looked.
"Do you know that because you didn't help, I moved all those boxes by myself? I'm exhausted!"
"Weren't you willing to do it yourself?" Isabella glanced at her and said with a cold laugh, "Who's to blame?"
Cecilia was speechless for a moment, then snorted coldly. "You think I'm as stupid as you? This time I helped Jasmine, she'll definitely remember my kindness. When I need her help later, she'll be there for me!"
"And you? Not only did you miss the chance to get close to Jasmine, but you also offended her. You'll regret it later."
In her view, Isabella and Kennedy were really incredibly stupid.
Who was Jasmine? How could anyone not want to be on good terms with Jasmine?
Cecilia went upstairs in a huff.
Isabella watched Cecilia's retreating figure and curved her lips dismissively.
Just from Jasmine's attitude earlier—making them move things while she stood by doing nothing—if Cecilia really needed something in the future, Jasmine would just stand by and watch too.
Jasmine and her friends had no intention of being friends with Cecilia at all.
Cecilia's deliberate flattery was probably just a joke in their eyes.
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Meanwhile, in dorm 111.
"Is that Cecilia girl brain-damaged or something?"
Hestia was eating snacks with a mocking expression. "Someone from a family ranked at the bottom actually wants to suck up to our Jasmine. What a joke."
"Look at how cheap she acts..." Selene curled her lip. "So disgusting."
"Who would want to hang out with trash like her?"
"The people in the dorm next door are really funny. One from a bottom-ranked family, one who got in through a recommendation letter, and one who's about to be kicked out of the Hope family. The three of them living together is actually quite fitting."
"It's just unfortunate that we're so close to them. Really bad luck."
"But why not use a doormat like Cecilia who comes to us willingly?" Jasmine said mockingly. "She's right next door anyway, so it's convenient to have her do things for us."
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Over the next three days, Cecilia frequently went to dorm 111.
Isabella and Kennedy got used to it.
Kennedy spent most of her time in her room reading physics books or doing practice problems, while Isabella sometimes studied with her and sometimes wandered around the academy.
During these three days, all the physics freshmen in the class of '89 were gradually added to the class group chat.
There was a notice pinned in the group.
【All freshmen please gather at the entrance of the Physics Lab Building at 7:30 on Monday.】
On Monday, Isabella and Kennedy arrived at the lab building.
Over the past few days, Isabella had learned a lot about graduation requirements from Kennedy.
In summary, to graduate from this academy and get a diploma, you needed to meet four requirements:
First, achieve a score of 80 or above in all major courses.
Second, earn the required physics lab credits.
Third, publish three or more papers in S-tier academic journals.
Fourth, participate in a major research project and be responsible for core research within it.
Among these four requirements, the most difficult part was the papers.
The second most difficult was the physics lab credits.
Supposedly, the ratio between physics labs and major courses was 7:3, meaning physics labs were most important, while major course exams actually made up a small proportion.
Arriving at the lab building entrance, Isabella saw other freshmen she hadn't met before.
A tall, thin middle-aged man wearing glasses stood at the main entrance.
"Hello everyone, I'm the lab professor in charge of this year's class of '89 physics freshmen. My name is Jerald McClellan. We'll be seeing each other often over the next three years."
Everyone's eyes turned to Jerald in unison.
Then Jerald led the group into the first-floor lobby of the lab building. In the center of the lobby was a bulletin board.
The bulletin board listed various lab project tasks from top to bottom, large and small.
Jerald pointed at the task board and introduced it to everyone: "This contains hundreds of lab tasks. Each task has a corresponding lab credit score marked after it. Complete the experiment and you can earn the corresponding lab credits. Over three years, you need to earn 120 lab credits to meet the standard."
After hearing Jerald's words, the freshmen immediately started discussing among themselves.
"We need to get 120 lab credits to meet the standard? Are you kidding? Some of these lab tasks only give 0.5 credits. By that calculation, wouldn't we have to complete one or two hundred experiments to graduate?"
They knew before coming that graduation wouldn't be easy, but they didn't expect it to be this hard!
"And this is just the physics lab part, not counting the physics major courses, papers, and research projects."
"How is three years enough time?"
Jerald listened to the freshmen's discussions, adjusted his glasses, and said:
"If you don't want to do 0.5-credit experiments, you can choose high-value experiments. The highest-value experiments can earn you a full 10 credits at once!"
"What? You can get 10 credits at once?"
"Doesn't that mean we only need to complete twelve experiments?"
Isabella looked and saw that these lab tasks decreased in value from top to bottom. The experiments at the top had higher values, with the highest indeed being 10 credits. There were about seven or eight such experiments.
Next were 9-credit experiments, 8-credit experiments, 7-credit experiments... all the way down to 0.5-credit experiments at the bottom.
Jerald reminded them: "There's a reason why 10-credit experiments have such high values."
He pointed at the several 10-credit lab tasks at the front and raised his eyebrows. "These experiments are so difficult that no student at the academy has ever completed them."
"You can choose high-value tasks or low-value ones, but I need to remind you that if you're not ambitious and only want to do simple 0.5 and 1-credit experiments, you won't be able to graduate. Because you only have three years, and even if you work day and night, you can't finish all these tasks."
"So if you want to graduate successfully within three years, challenging high-difficulty experiments is a necessary step."
Finally, Jerald added: "Starting today, you can take on lab tasks. However, eighty percent of these lab tasks require teamwork to complete, so I suggest that those of you who want to do the same experiment project form a group and complete it together."