giants of the era

Chapter 11 Living With Bill Gates

Li Zetian's three roommates came back very late, and as soon as they came back, they talked about their romantic affairs.After listening for a while, Li Zetian went to sleep, feeling that he was not on the same channel as them.

In the early morning of the next day, while the others were still sleeping, Li Zetian had already woken up. After washing up, he went out alone to familiarize himself with the environment of Harvard University.At the same time, I hope to meet that girl named Chen Ruoxi unexpectedly last night.In fact, Li Zetian never forgot about her, and her thoughts were all in his mind last night!It's a pity that I haven't seen her again for a long time since that farewell.

On the third day, the school officially started. In addition to the compulsory courses of music, literature, history, and economics, Li Zetian took courses such as mathematics, computer, and electronic engineering!

Nietzsche once said: "Only geniuses and madmen can enjoy loneliness!"

Li Zetian is a genius, but also a lunatic. Once he starts to study, he will forget to sleep and eat.From the perspective of others, including his roommates, Li Zetian is a nerd who doesn't know how to enjoy college life, participate in social activities, or date girls.

However, Li Zetian himself enjoys this state very much and enjoys it.And because of this, although Harvard University in the United States is full of geniuses, he can stand out, and even many people have secretly paid attention to him, and Bill Gates is one of them.

Bill Gates is from the law department, but he also signed up for mathematics courses. Sometimes, several classes of mathematics courses will be taught in a large classroom.The professor would ask the students to answer some math problems in class. Bill Gates's math talent is undoubtedly very strong. However, there are always two people in the class whose math ability is better than him.One is called Steve Ballmer, and the other is Li Zetian from China!

Steve Ballmer participated in the mathematics competition in high school and won the top 10 in the United States. He received a scholarship from the Harvard Department of Mathematics. He scored a perfect score of 1600 in the SAT test of the US college entrance examination. He is a mathematics genius.

What surprised Bill Gates was that Li Zetian was a music student, but his attainments in mathematics far surpassed the two of them.

There is a saying, "people of a feather flock together, and things of a feather flock together!"

In less than a month, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Li Zetian came together very quickly.

It was a math class on the morning of September 9, and the math professor gave everyone a set of difficult test papers for the exam.

Li Zetian, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer who were the first to complete were praised by the professor.The three also got acquainted and became friends.

Steve Ballmer is an active member of the school, while Li Zetian and Bill Gates are more like-minded, both nerds.

When Bill Gates learned that Li Zetian was very interested in computer programming, and his skills were not bad, he proposed to move to a dormitory to live together.

He said excitedly to Li Zetian: "Li, you can move here and live together!!!"

When Li Zetian heard this at first, he had goosebumps all over his body. Brother's sexual orientation is normal, so don't be gay!However, looking back, Bill Gates' sexual orientation is normal, no problem, he shouldn't be bent because of me...

"Okay!" Li Zetian nodded and agreed. First, he could get closer to Bill Gates. Second, he couldn't chat with Charles Eleanor and other three roommates.

Bill Gates has two roommates, and they are both willing to change places with Li Zetian. Living with an otaku like Bill Gates has no passion, but living with three boys from the music department is much cooler!There are many beauties in the music department, and dormitory parties are often held!

Just don't be too happy!
And Steve Ballmer learned that Li Zetian moved to Bill Gates' dormitory, and he also moved here.

Except for attending classes, Li Zetian either stayed in the dormitory or spent time in the computer room of the university, and even slept directly in it for several nights.So much so that the students who came to class the next day were shocked to find that there was a snoring sound coming from the computer room.Of course, this incident later became a joke on the Harvard campus.And when Li Zetian became famous, it became an extremely inspirational campus story!

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Time flies.

On October 10th, Li Zetian received a letter from his parents, which stated that after they resigned and handed over the work of the newspaper and school, they left Hong Kong on September 5th and went to Taipei, Taiwan.Father Li Chengzhi took over a small magazine under his uncle's name, and planned to serialize "The Devotion of Suspect X" in the magazine on November 9st, while mother Xiao Zhixuan also found a job in a local school and became a middle school musician. teacher.

"November 11st, which is next month, I don't know how the sales of "The Devotion of Suspect X" will be in Taiwan at that time?" Li Zetian murmured, a little nervous and looking forward to it , but generally speaking, after reading the letter, he knew that his parents had settled down there, so he felt relieved.

In Taiwan, the magazine Li Chengzhi took over is called "Life", which has prose essays, feature photos, women's fashion, etc., and is published once a month.After Li Chengzhi took over, he decided to increase the novel column, delete prose and essays, and at the same time change the monthly magazine into a weekly magazine.After reading the essays and essays, they are finished. People don’t expect anything else. In short, users are not sticky enough!
Weekly magazines have a huge amount of tasks, so the content must be prepared in advance, just like a TV station recording several episodes of variety shows in advance!
At this time, Li Zetian carefully put the letter into the cabinet, then adjusted his clothes and hair in front of the mirror, and prepared to apply for a job in a company later.Li Zetian didn’t have a lot of money on him. The money from selling songs paid for his tuition, and his parents gave him 1000 US dollars for living expenses, but he “spent it all” and bought chips, memory, circuit boards and other hardware.In this era, software engineers and hardware engineers have not been subdivided. A great engineer must be proficient in both software and hardware, but Li Zetian has not been able to do this. Needless to say, he has learned computer programming, and his mind is full of Knowledge beyond this era, but hardware is his shortcoming.Therefore, he spent money to buy a lot of things and came back to do research.

If you don't have money, you can make money by yourself, old men, how can you ask your parents for money?Li Zetian had no intention of calling his parents for money!
The company Li Zetian was going to apply for was called Digital Equipment Corporation of America (DEC Corporation of the United States). On January 1970, 1, DEC Corporation finally launched the PDP-5 computer. The PDP-11 has a series of computing functions, is easy to operate, has a beautiful appearance, and has a longer service life than other computers. It soon became a model for the small computer industry and a model for the design of a generation of small computers. DEC's influence began to spread to every corner of the industry, all over the world, and finally stood out, broke through the shadow of the blue giant, surpassed all other opponents, and became IBM's number one challenger!
DEC has a branch in Boston, and this company is also one of Bill Gates' favorite companies to apply for during college, because they send helicopters to Boston Airport to load applicants to the company headquarters.Of course, Li Zetian learned about this from reading the biography of Bill Gates in his last life.

At this moment, Bill Gates was waiting for him at the door, and the two were going to apply for this company together.

(End of this chapter)