Brainoid

The next day Qi Min came to the laboratory. In the morning, he had been contacting the company doing the cynomolgus monkey research group about the experiment. At noon, he had takeout with Wang Xin and Chen Linyou. As soon as the takeaway was finished, the two hurriedly went to catch up on their experiments. Qi Min came to the office she had not used for a long time and waited for the fourth-year undergraduate student to arrive.

At two o'clock at the appointed time, the senior student named Bai Rong came as expected. This young man seems to have quite a personality. He wears a baseball shirt and jeans in the middle of winter. His hair is permed and curled, but it is too long as if he hasn't had a haircut in months, making him look a bit messy.

Qi Min asked him to sit down, and then asked him about his basic situation.

Department of Biology, senior year, this is all known information. There is no subdivision of majors in the undergraduate science program at the University of Science and Technology of China, but the courses he had taken before were all focused on cells and molecules, and he did not know much about bioinformatics.

Qi Min asked: "Then why do you want to do your graduation project in the bioinformatics laboratory?"

The young man named Bai Rong replied: "I just want to learn about... computer technology."

"Do you want to transfer to CS (Computer Science) as a graduate student?" Qi Min guessed casually.

The young man hesitated for a moment, but nodded.

It is very common and understandable for biology students to want to switch to CS. After all, the biology major is really energy-consuming and not profitable. Qi Min didn't have any other opinions on this, and just said: "I'm not very clear about the requirements for switching to CS, but you have only taken the required course C language. Is it a bit difficult to switch to CS now?"

Bo Rong hesitated for a moment, then said: "I want to get in touch with bioinformatics first... just to see if I can do CS-related research."

Qi Min thought about it. Although he wanted to do a dry experiment, the dry experiment on her subject was the core part, and he really couldn't let others do it. In addition to the core dry experiments, Wang Xin and Chen Linyou already had enough manpower to make EPS cells for the remaining wet experiments. He had never learned animal experiments, so it was difficult to arrange them for him.

So let’s follow the original plan and take this young man for a run around the Nimbus Computing Center.

Qi Min said: "Well... that's it. The informatics experiment part of our research group is relatively complicated now, and it is unlikely that we can teach you how to do it in the short term. But we have cooperation with researcher Zhou Xiaoshan from the 'Yuyun' Computing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and we need Someone has contacted there. I've been working on this recently. You can follow me a few times to take a look. The field of bioinformatics in our school is still relatively weak, but there are many in this field at the 'Nimbus' Center. Project. I think it might be helpful for you to find out."

What Qi Min said was very reasonable, and it was within her authority as the PI to arrange work for undergraduate students. Bai Rong probably also felt that it was not difficult to run the project with the teacher, and he would gain experience after the difficulties, so he agreed.

This matter hit it off immediately, Qi Min added Bai Rong's WeChat account, pulled him into the laboratory group, and then let him go back.

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In the afternoon of the next day, people from the company in Yunnan came to Beijing first to visit the "Nimbus" computing center. Qi Min summoned her new undergraduate student Bai Rong, and then took the senior boy out of school to take the subway.

After coming out of the laboratory, I rode my own bicycle to the school gate, then switched to a shared bicycle and rode to the subway station. This process alone took more than ten minutes.

When we got to the subway station, Qi Min was about to enter the station when Bai Rong said that he didn't have a bus card.

Qi Min couldn't quite understand: "How come you don't have a bus pass?"

For a less famous school like the University of Science and Technology of China, there are generally not many foreign students applying for undergraduate courses, and Bai Rong is also a local. Local students do not have local bus cards, which Qi Min did not expect at all.

"Teacher Qi, I rarely take the bus or subway after graduating from high school." Bai Rong answered honestly.

Qi Min casually wanted to ask why he didn't take the bus or subway, but suddenly realized that it was probably because he didn't have to go to and from school every day to go to college. When he went home, he either lived close to his home and could ride a bike, or there was a car to pick him up. But look at her again, she has become a PI, rents a house more than ten kilometers away, and is reluctant to buy a car.

"I'll lend you my card." Qi Min took the initiative to ignore the question of why he didn't take the bus or subway.

Bai Rong took her card and asked with some confusion: "Then what do you use?"

"You can also swipe the QR code on the APP on the subway." Qi Min took out his mobile phone and opened the Beijing Metro "Yitongxing" APP, and scanned it on the turnstile at the subway station.

(Note: The original "Yitongxing" APP has been updated to "Yitongxing". I only found out today... I usually ignore the update when taking the subway)

She takes the subway every day and naturally knows various ways to buy subway tickets. Bo Rong swiped her card and entered the station, then followed Qi Min down to the platform level.

After finally getting on the subway, naturally there were no seats. Bai Rong stood next to Qi Min and couldn't help but ask: "Teacher Qi, does it take a long time to go to the 'Yuyun' computing center?"

"An hour and a half." Qi Min replied.

"Why can't we drive there?" Bo Rong then asked.

Qi Min didn't have the nerve to say that she didn't have money to buy a car yet, so she just made up: "Driving... is quite troublesome, and I don't know how to drive."

Not being able to drive is a good reason. Even if a young female PI cannot drive, it is not surprising. After all, "scientists", a special group of people, always have some special hobbies in the eyes of ordinary people. Even if Qi Min said that she just likes taking the subway, I'm afraid no one would doubt the authenticity of this.

Bai Rong had no choice but to continue standing and riding the subway. Qi Min didn't know if this young man could drive, but even if he could drive and Qi Min had a car, she wouldn't dare to use the undergraduate as a temporary driver.

The laboratory PI and the undergraduate students took the subway together, which made the atmosphere a bit awkward, especially when they had to sit for such a long time. Qi Min felt that she and Bai Rong were not familiar with each other, and there was nothing to talk about due to the difference in status, so he wanted to find something to do.

She woke up the screen of her mobile phone and clicked on the mobile chicken game by accident. Then she was surprised to find that Zhang Zhiyong was still online. It seems that this young talent from the Department of Chemistry is hiding in the office all day, probably so that he can secretly play with his mobile phone.

Qi Min casually clicked to watch Zhang Zhiyong, and then saw Bai Rong looking at the screen of her mobile phone from the corner of her eye.

The impact of playing games in front of undergraduate students seems not to be good, but if I don’t play games, I have nothing else to do. Qi Min felt that the awkward atmosphere of silence was more harmful than playing games, so he still asked: "Bo Rong, are you playing chicken?"

Perhaps this sounded too much like a fishing question, so the young man replied hesitantly: "Uh... sometimes..."

"If you want to play, let's team up and play a game?" Qi Min suggested calmly.

Bai Rong looked at her in surprise, and then decisively took out his mobile phone from his coat pocket...

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