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[A little insider tip for all those participating in the math challenge selection process!]

—Attention all those who participated in the recent school-wide selection process! As an assistant to a professor in the mathematics department, I can tell you that the results of this selection competition are in! Unsurprisingly, mathematics students dominated the top spots, but some dark horses emerged. Of course, I know you don't care about that, but what I want to say is that this competition was a little different from previous ones! In the past, exams consisted of answering a whole paper and then seeing the score, but not this time! This time, it was about how many questions you answered correctly within a set time!

In the past, top students would say I got a 99 because that was my only ability, and I got a 100 because the test was only worth 100 points. But this time it's different! As long as you're fast enough, there's no limit to the score you can get! (I'll be impressed if you can finish all the questions!)

This challenge is based on the team's total score, with teams ranked from highest to lowest. First, second, and third place are each awarded one spot.

So that means the pressure this time is quite high! Everyone should think it through carefully~

—Why does it seem to me that the original poster is trying to discourage people from posting?

—(OP's reply) That's the idea. Since I'll also be an assistant on the team, I hope the players have a good mentality and can handle pressure. If they're just treating this as a regular competition to test the waters, they shouldn't come; it's a waste of their spots.

So how many people were selected?

—(OP's reply) About fifteen, then five more will be selected after intensive training.

—6666 The organizers this year really went all out!

—The School of Foreign Languages ​​looks up to the big shots

—The School of Humanities looks up to the big shots

—Art schools look up to the big shots

……

The reason the results of the school's selection process came out so quickly was mainly because the teacher in charge was Professor Pan from the Department of Mathematics. He came specifically to guide this selection process, hoping to find out if there were any promising candidates. Of course, students from the Department of Mathematics were the first choice.

"Ah Jiang! We've all made it in!!" Li Xiangyue was extremely excited.

“Mmm!” Jiang Lai replied.

"What went in?" Tang Li and Zhao Ying asked, leaning closer.

Li Xiangyue showed them her phone screen: "A teaching assistant just messaged me, asking me to join a group to participate in the school's math competition training."

"Doesn't that mean we have to have math class and do homework after school?" Zhao Ying was very puzzled. "I'm a mediocre student, sorry to bother you."

“Ah Jiang, I’ve added you to the group too.”

Jiang Lai was brushing her teeth when she managed to utter a single word: "Okay."

The list of candidates was posted on the school's intranet, sparking another wave of discussion on the school forum.

[The newly released list of candidates selected for the math competition!]

—Song Jun (Department of Mathematics), Chen Lijian (Department of Mathematics), Lin Lu (Department of Physics), Zhang Xinjing (Department of Mathematics)... Jiang Lai (Department of Finance), Li Xiangyue (Department of Finance), Zhou Yunyun (Department of Architecture)...

—Some of them look familiar; as expected, a master is a master!

—I have to give a huge shout-out to the math department's top students!

Ah~ it's Jiang Lai, the beauty of our Finance Department! Long time no see, she's back on the forum again!

—Hilarious! I can't tell if the person upstairs is being sarcastic or genuinely feeling something.

—It seems like whenever there's a thread about Jiang, the thread gets pulled. I seriously suspect that Jiang from our department is being targeted by the forum.

—A senior reporting in! Wishing all the juniors continued success this year!

—We've captured Fang the Great!!!

……

"Hurry, hurry!" Li Xiangyue grabbed Jiang Lai and ran all the way. "We're late! We're late!"

"Slow down!!" Jiang Lai shouted from behind, "This isn't something we wanted to do; it's an objective problem that couldn't be avoided, and the responsibility isn't ours! We just need to explain it to the teacher properly! Stop running! What's the difference between being ten minutes late and being fifteen minutes late?"

"That won't work either!!!"

It was right when class started, and there were hardly any people on the road outside the teaching building, except for two girls who were running and panting.

"Report!!" Jiang Lai and Li Xiangyue shouted in unison.

The teacher on the podium looked at the list. "Jiang Lai, Li Xiangyue?"

"Yes."

"Come in, and don't be late next time."

"Thank you, teacher!"

The two quickly found seats and sat down. Then the teacher handed each of them a test paper and said, "We'll have the test today. Hurry up and finish it, or we'll run out of time."

The two quickly thanked them again and then began to write.

-

"Okay, time's up, put down your pens!" As soon as the bell rang, the teacher immediately told everyone to stop what they were doing. Everyone handed in their papers one by one and then watched the teacher leave the classroom.

This classroom is full of people selected from within the school. Some of them know each other, and as soon as the teacher leaves, they start chatting.

"I bet this exam paper was Old Pan's idea; the question style is definitely his!"

"This is a huge amount of material, like the pie in the sky for the intern supervisor."

"Sister Zhang, my dear sister, what's the last answer to your multiple-choice question?"

"It's mind-bending right from the start. The multiple-choice questions are okay, I can guess, but the fill-in-the-blank questions are insanely difficult!!"

"This is how the test paper is. Old Pan sets the test paper, and the later big questions are actually easier."

"You call this simple??"

"Master Song, could you tell me what the last value of the fill-in-the-blank question is?" "The square root of three," Song Jun said casually.

"Holy crap?? Really? I could never figure this out even if I tried my hardest."

"It still has to be Lord Song!"

Li Xiangyue also complained to Jiang Lai, "There's not enough time..."

Jiang Lai comforted her, "It's alright, this is already good enough, it's not like we're going to be late."

"It's definitely doomed; there's not enough time to finish it."

"That's already great!"

Hearing this, Song Jun, who was sitting in front of them, turned around and said, "If you don't have the ability, you don't have the ability. Don't make excuses for yourself. Even if you hadn't been late, you might not have been able to do it."

Jiang Lai: "?"

Li Xiangyue's face turned red instantly at his words, "You!"

"Furthermore, I believe that as college students, the most basic requirement is to be punctual. Your lack of time to complete the questions is entirely your own problem."

"Mathematics, like time, is precise."

Jiang Lai: "?"

Li Xiangyue: "You!"

After finishing speaking, Song Jun stood up and left, leaving Jiang Lai and Li Xiangyue behind.

A classmate who witnessed the whole thing didn't know how to get a word in edgewise. After Song Jun left, he comforted Li Xiangyue, who looked like she was about to cry, and said, "Don't take Song Jun's words to heart. That's just how he is. He's very principled and doesn't care about anyone else.

"Has he always talked like this?"

"He's always been in the math department. I know him; he's just a bit arrogant and has a sharp tongue."

"This is outrageously arrogant!" Jiang Lai remarked.

"It's okay, just ignore him!" the girl said. "I'm Zhang Xinjing from the Mathematics Department, hello!"

"Jiang Lai." "My name is Li Xiangyue!"

"Hello~"

-

Being late for the first training session wasn't Jiang Lai and Li Xiangyue's idea; it was because the teacher kept them late. Professor Qian's class was always the easiest to fail, and nobody wanted to miss it, so they had no choice but to be late for the math training session.

When the next training session began, Jiang Lai and Li Xiangyue apologized to the teacher from the previous session, and that was the end of it.

However, Li Xiangyue started to dislike Song Jun. Although she was usually quiet and gentle, she would sometimes roll her eyes at Song Jun and would complain about him whenever she had the chance.

"Forget it, the more you think about it, the angrier you get. Don't think about it anymore," Jiang Lai comforted her.

"I'm so angry! We don't even know him, and he just comes up here and starts lecturing us. Seriously! Who does he think he is!"

"You know that's just how people are, don't be angry."

"Humph!"

Song Jun wasn't stupid; he naturally sensed Jiang Lai and Li Xiangyue's dislike for him, but he didn't care.

The school's math training lasted for three weeks, with almost every day being high-intensity training sessions. The training was scheduled for the evenings, involving repeated tests, explanations, and practice problems.

This process of weeding out batches of people continued until the final exam was over.

"Ah Jiang! I feel like I'm doomed." Li Xiangyue's math scores were also quite good, and she stayed until there were only eight people left, basically only from the math, physics, and finance departments.

"It's okay, it's okay. We've come this far, it's enough," Jiang Lai comforted her.

Sitting next to me, Song Jun said, "If you all have the mentality of 'that's good enough,' you won't be able to do anything well."

Jiang Lai: "?"

What's wrong with this person?! Can't they even speak properly?!

"No, I mean, have we offended you?" Jiang Lai couldn't contain her curiosity and asked.

"No. It's just that our attitudes towards life and our ways of handling things are different," Song Jun said.

"Since there isn't one, then you should understand that we should respect each other's differences, and at least there's no need to always speak with barbs, right?"

Song Jun paused for a moment, then nodded: "You're right, I'm sorry."

Jiang Lai: "..." You really are a bit strange.

But she didn't say anything more. There was no point in talking to each other, so she pulled Li Xiangyue, who still wanted to say a few more words, away from the lecture hall.

Another math student behind him, having witnessed the whole thing, said, "It has to be you! Song Jun, why are you so fixated on those two? You can't expect to get their attention by bullying female classmates, can you?"

Song Jun glanced at him with disdain: "You're overthinking it. I just think their attitude towards mathematics is too casual."

"Why? Just because they were late for their first training session?"

Song Jun nodded slightly.

"Well, they didn't want to!"

"Being late is a mistake, and that's that."

"You're awesome!" The classmate gave a thumbs up.

-

The final math challenge was selected from math majors, which is quite reasonable.

Li Xiangyue stared at the report card for a long time, feeling sorry for Jiang Lai: "How come there are other assessment points! A-Jiang, you were just a little bit away from getting in! What a pity!"

"I'm fine!" Jiang Lai wasn't particularly interested in math; she was just trying it out. On the contrary, Li Xiangyue quite liked it. She asked Xiangyue, "Aren't you sad?"

"Oh well, it's good that I tried my best."

"Great! I'll buy you milk tea!"

"Me too!" "+1!"

Jiang Lai waved her hand and said generously, "No problem, everyone who sees it gets a share!"

Tang Li said, "That's great! Even though neither of you participated in the competition, you still got to drink milk tea! But don't be sad! There will be other opportunities to participate in competitions in the future!"

"That's really difficult! This kind of competition is highly prestigious!"

"It's alright! There's no competition, but we have other things! Let's have tea at 3 PM first!!"