When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Chen Jiayi raised his head in a daze, staring at the densely packed mathematical formulas on the blackboard with his dazed eyes, as if he was reading an incomprehensible book.

He shook his head and sighed helplessly.

Although I knew I would not be able to keep up, I did not expect the gap to be so huge.

After all, he has the brain of an ordinary person, unlike his classmates who are all monsters.

Some of them are the top three liberal arts and science geniuses in each province, or they are students recommended by the university through competitions, and there are some foreigners who don’t look very smart but actually have terrifying IQs.

A dense stream of people gathered together and moved towards the nearest cafeteria like ants moving.

Every face around is filled with youthfulness, and Chen Jiayi does not stand out in the crowd.

The cafeteria of Hua Xia University is unique among the top universities in China.

More than two dozen canteens offer more than a thousand different foods in total.

There are eight major cuisines, local snacks, even Korean kimchi, Mexican tacco, and Indian curry chicken rice, which are enough to provide students with the nutritional needs.

In fact, not only students, but also family members of faculty and staff or some off-campus people come to dine.

It’s just that these people cannot enjoy the student discounts offered by the school.

When students top up their meal cards, they get 100 when they top up, but these people only get 80 when they top up 100.

But no one will complain.

After all, even if only 80 yuan is deposited into the account, it is still cheaper than eating out and tastes better.

After hurriedly finishing his lunch, Chen Jiayi had no time to rest and hurried towards the smart library.

Their group had a study discussion there today, which was an assignment assigned by the teacher.

The Qiming Smart Library was completed only a year and a half ago. It is equipped with immersive learning cabins and holographic whiteboards. AI learning assistants and holographic projection teaching equipment are also standard.

It is worth mentioning that the AI ​​learning assistant is connected to the DeepseekR10 reasoning model, and a full-blooded version of the local deployment has been made, which is only available to teachers and students of Hua Xia University.

As soon as he stepped into the library gate, an intelligent robot moved over and used an electronic synthesized voice to remind Chen Jiayi that all the classmates in his group had arrived and he was the only one missing.

“Everyone, why are you so early? Have you had lunch?”

Chen Jiayi put on a smile and greeted everyone as soon as he entered the room, but no one paid any attention to him. At most, they turned around and nodded as a greeting.

The other four students in the classroom, one named Lin Yu, one named Chu Hang, and two named Zhou Hao and Su Li, were currently working on solving the problem.

Chen Jiayi’s gaze lingered on the back of the girl named Lin Yu for a long time, and he gradually became a little dazed.

Wow, the goddess of the mathematics department, how many people dream of her but cannot get her.

“This is a Fourier transform question…” Lin Yu bit the pen. The densely packed formulas on the draft paper were overwhelming. “The original function is a piecewise trigonometric function, and I need to prove its frequency domain expression…”

She pulled her ponytail in annoyance, and suddenly heard the sound of paper rubbing behind her.

“The key to frequency domain conversion lies in the division of the integration interval.” Chu Hang stood behind her without her noticing, pointing to the messy calculations on the draft paper, “Here, when |t|>π, the function value is zero, and your integration limit should be…”

Coincidentally, at this moment, a bunch of cherry blossoms floated in from outside the house and landed on the table not far from the two of them.

Chu Hang thought about it and drew a frequency domain spectrum on the holographic projection screen on the desktop: “Just like the harmonic decomposition of this flower, each petal is a superposition of sine waves of different frequencies.”

Chen Jiayi curled her lips in disdain, thinking that Chu Hang was really cocky and always seemed to be pretending.

Although he admitted that the other party was really awesome!
The IMO full score winner was fiercely sought after by Peking University and Tsinghua University, but was unexpectedly snatched by Hua Xia University, simply because Hua Xia University promised that as long as he was admitted, it would recommend him to the extreme class set up by Fields Medal boss Schultz at Hua Xia University.

In fact, with the complete rise of Hua Xia University in recent years, backed by Jianghe Holdings and Hua Xia University Foundation, the quality of its students is not inferior to those of Peking University and Tsinghua University.

Although Peking University and Tsinghua University are old names with great reputations, Huaxia University is not bad either, with dozens of Nobel Prize winners and nine Fields Medal winners.

Outstanding students will receive full scholarships upon admission, and will be guaranteed job placement upon graduation. They can choose to join any large group such as Orange Technology, Renren, ByteDance, Huawei, Tencent, JD.com, and Jiuzhou Auto. Even well-known multinational companies often come to poach their talents.

Just as Chen Jiayi was in a daze, the crisp sound of keyboard typing suddenly came from the opposite corner.

The boy named Zhou Hao turned his laptop to the other side and said to the girl next to him: “Su Li, look! The recognition rate of the MNIST dataset got stuck at 92%. I tried L2 regularization and Dropout…”

“Early stopping method should be combined with Bayesian optimization.” Su Li, who was wearing glasses, drew a learning curve on the touch screen with her fingertips and frowned: “Your validation set loss began to fluctuate in the 35th epoch. Here–” She called up the parameters of the Adam optimizer in the code, “The learning rate decay is too aggressive. Try adjusting the step_size to 100.”

Chen Jiayi clicked his tongue, feeling that it made no difference whether he was in the study group or not.

The two people who were talking were top students in the Department of Intelligent Science, and the girl named Su Li was studying under a Turing Award winner.

“and many more!”

Suddenly a voice came, and Lin Yu seemed to understand something. He turned around and walked towards Zhou Hao and the others, pointing at Su Li’s screen, “If we regard this weight matrix as a linear operator in Hilbert space…”

“Use meta-learning to build a hyperparameter search space.” Su Li suddenly called out the parameter adjustment module he designed. “Just like Lin Yu said, think of the optimization process as the gradient flow of the function space…”

“Chen Jiayi, why are you standing there? Come over and help.” At this time, Zhou Hao noticed Chen Jiayi, who had been standing there with his schoolbag on his back and not saying anything, and hurriedly urged him.

Chen Jiayi smiled bitterly and thought to himself, I don’t understand what you are discussing, so I can’t be of any help.

He really felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he would have chosen to study business. He blamed his mother for begging his father to put him in the top class.

Even with the private tutoring of the lecturers, he could barely graduate from here, and he would not be able to make any academic achievements.

but……

As long as he can get his diploma, Chen Jiayi will be content and is willing to give up his dream of becoming a scientist.

……

After working for a whole afternoon, Chen Jiayi dragged his tired body back to the dormitory.

The remaining three people in this small four-person room are also freaks. They don’t seem to study much, but they always get high scores in exams.

While others at Hua Xia University are working very hard to keep up with the studies, they, on the other hand, spend most of their evenings playing games.

“Old Four, what have you done until now? If you don’t come back, I’m going to report you missing with my second brother.”

The person who spoke was called Teng Feiyu, a native of Beijing and from Haidian. You can imagine how awesome he was.

In his words, he mastered C++ in elementary school, and he usually won first, second, and third prizes in NOC, Blue Bridge Cup, CSP, NOIP, and Information Olympiad.

Chen Jiayi couldn’t understand some of the English abbreviations at all, and had to ask Deepseek to find out what they meant.

The second brother that Teng Feiyu mentioned is named Ma Chenxi, and he is also a ruthless person.

He passed PET and FCE in the third grade of primary school and won the first prize of Ye Shengtao Cup. His calligraphy skills in both soft and hard pens are level ten. He ranked first in Beijing in shooting and won the gold medal in the HD District Art Festival for wind instrument.

Compared with them, Chen Jiayi felt like a scumbag.

Besides having a good dad…

Later, he finally understood why his father arranged him to such a school, such a class, and such a dormitory.

Doesn’t this mean we need to strike at his arrogance from all sides?

Let him know that there are always people better than you. (End of this chapter)