Super God-Level Top Student

Chapter 212 The Highest Level of Contempt is Indifference

Actually, Qiao Ze's impression of his three roommates wasn't too bad.

Although they hadn't known each other for long, this was, after all, his first foray into communal living.

This should have been an experience during his high school days, but unfortunately, Qiao Ze didn't really adapt well to the school environment back then and was always by Lu Xiuxiu's side.

It wasn't until university that he had the chance to share a room with three roommates.

Although each of these guys had their faults, like Zhang Zhou being a bit of a joker, Gu Zhengliang pretending to be serious and Chen Yiwen always having some strange thoughts, to be honest, Qiao Ze actually found some warmth in this short communal life that his peers should have experienced long ago.

He even felt a hint of friendship, something he had never felt before.

So he was willing to accept the invitation from room 408.

Even though he usually didn't say much during meals, it was nice to take a walk and casually listen to whatever nonsense they felt like spouting after eating.

...

On the way to the canteen for the feast, Su Mucheng had already started giving Qiao Ze a heads up.

"Qiao, is Chen Yiwen up to something good again?"

"Oh?"

"Hehe, he heard that Group Wisdom was recommended for this year's National Science Progress Award. He's definitely treating us to a meal today to find out if his name is on the list for the project submission."

"Is that so?" Qiao Ze was somewhat surprised; he had not heard about this and wasn't even very clear on what kind of award the National Science Progress Award was.

"You don't know it?"

Qiao Ze shook his head.

"It's really happening. Tan has received the notification. He didn't tell you?"

After a moment's thought, Qiao Ze replied, "Maybe Dou Dou filtered out the information."

To finish his doctoral thesis as soon as possible, Qiao Ze had set a rather broad information filtering rule for Dou Dou. Almost everything except topic-related content was filtered out, including internal emails.

...

Even if the Group Wisdom project were led by the college, Xu Dajiang wouldn't be meddling with the team's composition.

He doesn't have the time or inclination to care about these things right now.

Lately, he's been so busy preparing for Qiao Ze's doctoral thesis defense that he hardly has time to touch the ground.

Normally, all universities have set dates for doctoral thesis defenses, but Qiao Ze is obviously an exception, going down a special route.

Of course, the entire defense method is also different from the standard doctoral thesis defense.

The doctoral thesis defense at Xilin University of Technology has Forms A and B.

But now, to make this defense run smoothly, they've introduced Form C. The whole process is completely different from the regular doctoral thesis defense.

It's almost like a report meeting style defense.

Especially the invitations to the defense panel.

Normally, six or seven members for a doctoral defense panel is enough, with five professors from inside the university and two from outside.

But after the invitations for this defense were sent out, too many professors hoped to join the committee.

After all, joining would mean getting their hands on Qiao Ze's original doctoral thesis.

Xu Dajiang had originally only planned to invite fifty people.

That would be the total from both domestic and international invitations.

But now, just the number of domestic professors who want to attend the defense has already exceeded expectations.

The number of international academics confirmed to attend has also been increasing these past few days.

It feels like a painful yet joyful experience to him.

This time, it's not a large-scale report meeting like last time, and it's not possible to mobilize the entire city of Xilin like before.@@@@