Back in his office, Schiller began reviewing Charles's file, which had just been transferred over from his original universe.
Many people thought the United States had no identity system and that a driver's license served as an ID card, but that was really only true for ordinary people at the bottom. Those who had received an elite education placed great importance on their educational records. Degrees, academic achievements, outstanding performance, and letters of recommendation were all included in those files. It could be said that they were passports into high society.
Before applying to have a particular instructor serve as their supervisor, students had to submit their educational records. Only after being selected could they become that instructor's student. Schiller's previous twelve interns had all been carefully chosen by him and showed great promise of becoming pillars of the psychology field in the future.
But Charles had gotten on the train before buying a ticket. Schiller knew he had telepathic abilities, so his educational record did not matter much. Still, he had to request it. After all, Charles had eleven senior fellow students ahead of him, and he was the youngest. If his résumé was lacking, the other interns might start having thoughts about it.
When Schiller opened the thick stack of files, he was still taken aback. Good lord, graduating from Harvard at sixteen was actually the least impressive item on his résumé. Charles had published his first journal article at eleven, and it had been in a core journal. Its primary subject was the relationship between psychology and Brain Science.
As everyone knew, Brain Science was still largely a field of wishful thinking for humanity. The vast majority of its arguments came from certain experiments, while there was almost no universally applicable theory capable of linking all mental