Chapter 193

The weekend always goes by so fast. Before you know it, it's a new week again. Everyone is slowly getting used to the college schedule. The first class of the new week is still Teacher Wei's Academic English Reading and Writing. The teacher assigned homework last week. Xiao Qi discussed with the class's vice study committee member and decided that she would collect the homework from the girls while Mao Wenshu would collect from the boys. It's quite difficult to gather homework from the whole class at once, so it's more convenient to do it by dormitory.

Because she had to collect homework, Xiao Qi came to class a bit earlier. But then Mao Wenshu ran over and told her that he didn't collect all of them. Looking at his thin stack of homework, it was clearly less than half.

She had collected all of them from the girls. After all there were fewer girls, and they were generally more well-behaved and probably didn't want to lose face by not turning in homework.

When Mao Wenshu saw Su Xiaoqi frown slightly, he immediately felt very ashamed. He had thought this would be a simple matter of just collecting homework, but over the past couple days as he went around to each dorm to urge them, he had only collected homework from half of the students. At first he felt a bit unwilling about why he was the vice study committee member, but now he wished he wasn't the study committee member at all. It was so annoying to have to collect homework. Why couldn't they just voluntarily turn in homework on their own? They were all adults now. Shouldn't they be more self-disciplined about turning in homework?

Moreover, it seemed overkill to make such a big deal over this little matter, taking attendance like they were still in middle school or high school and reporting names to the teacher also seemed odd. But with so many not turning in homework, it also seemed useless that he was the study committee member.

After thinking it over for a long time, Mao Wenshu still pushed the blame onto Su Xiaoqi in the end. After all, she was the one in charge.

Looking at the stack of homework, Xiao Qi also felt a bit frustrated.

"Did you record who didn't turn in homework?" Xiao Qi asked. The class committee members had a roster.

Fortunately Mao Wenshu was still reliable on this point and nodded, "I recorded it."

"Give me the list of names."

Xiao Qi looked over the attendance sheet. There really were a lot of people who didn't turn in homework - half of the boys didn't turn it in, which was equal to half the class. She had thought that since they were in university, everyone would be more proactive adults who understood that they should study diligently. But it turns out many still lacked self-discipline.

She was too lazy to go find each person individually now. The current Xiao Qi felt that time was too precious. Anything outside of studying, unless necessary, was a waste. She directly took a photo of the name list and posted it in the class group chat. "For all classmates who still haven't turned in homework, turn it in to me by the end of the break between the first and second class today at the latest. No exceptions."

Then the class group chat exploded.

To be honest, the group had been quite quiet these past couple days, other than the occasional red packet sent by wealthy students. No one had made a peep.

But suddenly the study committee member popped out with this message and directly posted the list of names of those who didn't turn in homework.

Everyone was stunned.

Some who had left their homework in the dorm rushed back to grab it. Some who really hadn't done it prepared to hastily finish it before class.

And when Li Weijin saw his own name on the list...he remembered that he also hadn't done it. He never did his homework.

He had always felt this was very natural. But he hadn't expected the study committee member to be so strict about this. If it were someone else, he would've felt they were being nosy and meddling too much. But since it was the study committee member Su Xiaoqi, Li Weijin actually felt she was right to be so principled and strict about this as the study committee member.

Then he raced back to his dorm to grab his notebook...

Not only to grab his own, but to urge others who hadn't turned in homework to hurry and do so...

The boys were in a frenzy, halfway through breakfast when they were chased out.

Mao Wenshu looked at the class group chat, pushed his glasses up, and thought to himself that he had wanted to post in the group too but felt it was a bit offensive to list everyone's names openly like that.

He hadn't expected everyone to obediently listen!

He should try posting like this next time too?

Xiao Qi didn't bother with the aftermath. After posting, she started reading her book. She had previewed today's lesson twice already and felt very relaxed. She discovered that if you grasped languages, it was the simplest subject, much easier than calculus, economics, and the like.

As she was reading, Teacher Wei had also arrived. Seeing the sparse students in the classroom, he smiled.

Then he started preparing the courseware, but for some reason today, the teacher's USB drive didn't seem compatible with the computer. He kept getting pop up windows when plugging it in saying the USB device couldn't be recognized... He plugged it in several times as the middle-aged Teacher Wei, whose hair was still thick, awkwardly listened to the computer going bong, bong, bong.

Xiao Qi was also at a loss when it came to computers. She had only started using them after entering university when she bought a laptop. In high school she had only used the school computer lab, so she was completely clueless. At this time Teacher Wei spoke up, "Could a classmate help me figure this out?"

Xiao Qi didn't expect that the one who went up was her dorm mate, Yunshu.

Yunshu was usually a shut-in who spent all day reading novels.

They watched as she brought her own laptop up and tested the USB drive first. The USB drive itself had no issues.

Then she tried all the ports on the classroom computer, but there was still a problem that prevented connecting because the classroom computer was connected to the projector screen so everything she did on it could be seen below.

Xiao Qi watched as Yunshu updated a driver, but it still didn't work.

Then she calmly opened Device Manager, clicked on Universal Serial Bus controllers, then USB Mass Storage Device, and chose Enable Device.

These series of operations were already very professional, at least completely beyond new student Xiao Qi. But the USB still couldn't be recognized normally. Yunshu continued to click on USBRootHub under Universal Serial Bus Controllers, then opened Power Management and unchecked "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power". She confirmed it after that.

This time when the USB was plugged in, the bong bong sounds finally stopped and the USB could be recognized.

Teacher Wei thanked her and Yunshu just smiled and returned to her seat.

Watching this series of operations, Xiao Qi was completely lost. Although it looked simple, she didn't understand any of it at all. Watching Yunshu click around with her mouse, everything was fixed just like that.

People really had different talents. She had thought she was pretty outstanding at Enhua. It seemed great and she felt pretty good about herself. But now she realized her sights had been too narrow. This was just Enhua, a third-rate school, yet there were many outstanding students around her already. If she went to a top university, the competition would be truly fierce with countless people more excellent than her. She hadn't achieved anything yet and had no reason to be arrogant at all. She still needed to keep studying diligently.

Thinking this, Xiao Qi's slightly inflated ego in the past few days deflated back to its original size. She should focus on studying well. She knew too little. The less you know, the easier it is to become conceited.

Moreover, she should set a study goal for herself. If her only benchmark was her classmates, most of whom didn't even do their homework and acted smug just for doing homework, her progress would be too slow.

Young people should use their limited time to learn unlimited knowledge.

Xiao Qi became more solemn thinking this. She read even more attentively.

She continued previewing what was coming up.