Chronicles of Semiconductor Pioneers Chapter 7

There is no such thing as academic god or academic master in the market now.

If there were, Alex Zhou would definitely be crowned the God of Week.

Nowadays, everyone is still relatively simple, or has not experienced the repeated bombardment of Internet language.

Kevin Wang and Tyler Li had only one thought in their minds, that is, it was too fast.

From the time they learned that Alex Zhou was planning to go abroad to the time this matter was accomplished, less than half a month had passed.

Alex Zhou just nodded, and Ryan Cao, who was standing at the door, quickly added: "Alex Zhou went to Berkeley.

The best branch of the entire University of California system.

Especially in the fields of science and engineering, it is comparable to universities such as Harvard and Yale.

At least two levels higher than Santa Barbara where I'm going.

If you have been paying attention, in recent years, no more than five students from Yanda can go to Berkeley every year.

Moreover, transferring to Berkeley to study for an undergraduate degree is more difficult than studying for a doctorate.

I've only heard of graduates going to Berkeley for PhDs, but I've never heard of anyone transferring to Berkeley. "

The data here comes from an interview with Li Guozhong, director of the Yan University Student Career Guidance Service Center in 2002. Harvard University (4 people in 2000) and Stanford University (16 people in 2000) are estimated to have no more than five people from Berkeley.

Kevin Wang interrupted: "Don't we know the value of Berkeley?

A school of the same level as MIT, at most slightly worse than Harvard and Yale.

It’s really amazing that he was able to transfer to Berkeley.

Do you have a scholarship there?"

In order to avoid too many questions from the other party and to leave a little legend for his upcoming departure from Yanda, Alex Zhou simply told his roommates the general situation:

"I sent an email to a professor at Berkeley, mainly discussing one of his papers.

Then the other party wrote back to me and conducted two rounds of telephone interviews and one round of remote written test with me.

Then the other party sent me an offer.

I transferred there and started directly from my senior year, and after graduating from college, I went straight to study for a doctorate under that professor.

I have received scholarships since my undergraduate studies, but I don’t know the exact amount yet.

But the professor told me that he would help me arrange my flight from Yenching to Los Angeles. "

After Alex Zhou finished speaking, the three people present had a common thought in their minds: I’m so jealous.

Kevin Wang was stunned. There is such a thing.

Those who can be admitted to Yanjing University from provinces other than Yanjing City all have extremely strong logical reasoning skills.

The three people present could quickly deduce that Alex Zhou must have performed at a very high level in the interview and written test.

Otherwise, how could I receive such preferential treatment?

You can skip grades, study for a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree, receive a full scholarship, and even have your airfare covered.

Ryan Cao murmured, "I can't think of any other adjective other than 'amazing'.

You should be the top scorer in our class.

How far is UC Santa Barbara from Berkeley?

Alex Zhou said: "It's not very far, about four or five hours by train."

Ryan Cao clapped his hands: "This is a day worth celebrating.

It is not only a celebration for our roommate who successfully transferred from Yanda to Berkeley for a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree program, but also a celebration that our friendship can continue in America.

To celebrate, I'll treat everyone to a meal at Yanjing Hotel tomorrow at noon.

Is this sincerity enough? "

Alex Zhou smiled and nodded.

Back to twenty years ago, when food additives were not so popular, he had too many things to do and had little time to taste the delicacies of Yanjing at that time.

Going to Yanjing Hotel was an opportunity for Alex Zhou to enrich his life experience.

What did the century-old Yanjing Hotel taste like in 1998?

Kevin Wang and Tyler Li said in unison: "That's nice!"

Alex Zhou added: "I am really short of money now, I will go to America later.

Come to Berkeley and see me, I'll treat you to a nice meal."

Alex Zhou is actually a very sociable person, but now he has a sense of mission in his heart that pushes him forward.

He had no time, and he dared not waste any time.

The more people in the industry are, the more they understand the huge gap between China and the Western world in the semiconductor field and even the entire high-tech field.

Even with more than 200 technologies transferred from Samsung, it is still not an easy task to catch up with the entire industrial chain.

Moreover, few of these technologies can be put to use immediately, and most of them require some prerequisite technologies to mature before they can be put to use.

"Haha no problem."

When Alex Zhou told the three people in his dormitory, it was actually the same as telling everyone.

Explosive news like this spreads very quickly.

The first person who came to me was the counselor, hoping that he could share some of his experience with everyone and give everyone a lecture on the topic of studying abroad.

Especially how to attract people.

Alex Zhou agreed. After all, Yanda University is still very valuable, and this is also a preparation for returning to China to start a business and recruit people in the future.

It’s never too late to start building a personal brand.

He could even guess the headlines that the media reporters would use when they dug up this past event:

"Success is no accident. Alex Zhou gave a lecture at Yanda in 1998."

The second person who came to the door was the person in charge of publicity for the study abroad agency Jinjile, who came personally and expressed the hope that Alex Zhou would claim in the lecture that it was under the guidance of Jinjile that he successfully applied for the undergraduate, master's and doctoral qualifications at Berkeley.

If Alex Zhou is willing, they are willing to offer a high price of 50,000 RMB.

Alex Zhou did not comment at first and said he needed to think about it.

Almost at the same time, Brian Wang came to the door.

Brian Wang was one of the three giants in the early days of New Oriental. He graduated from the English Department of Yanjing University and then went to the State University of New York to switch to coding. After working at Bell Labs for two years, he returned to New Oriental as a teacher.

At this time, he had just begun to gain fame in the English training industry.

As Brian Wang had taught at Yanjing University for a period of time, it was easy for him to find Alex Zhou thanks to his connections at Yanjing University.

"Hello, Mr. Zhou, I am Brian Wang from New Oriental.

You have almost exactly the same temperament as I expected.

The state of being fully engaged in the area of   your interest.

No wonder he was able to achieve such great success in his sophomore year. "

If the other party was Yu Minhong or Xu Xiaoping, Alex Zhou would definitely be able to react immediately to who the other party was.

But Brian Wang, although known as one of the Big Three, to be honest, Alex Zhou has no impression of him at all.

He just politely asked back: "Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Wang. May I ask what you want to talk to me about?"

Alex Zhou was annoyed by being disturbed.

I can receive love notes while walking on the street.

Don't even think about it, you are going abroad soon, how can you possibly have a cross-border relationship.

Long-distance relationships are not even worth mentioning, let alone cross-border relationships.

Brian Wang explained: "We at New Oriental hope to run an advertisement.

I hope that when you give a lecture at Yanda University, you will say that you were able to apply to Berkeley under the guidance of New Oriental.

We will subsequently promote this in the media and use you to promote New Oriental.

Your image rights may be required."

Smart people always tend to think alike.

How many people have heard of Jinjili? It seems that it has completely disappeared in recent years.