But none of that mattered. Schiller could not wait to see Brainiac's results.
He clicked in and saw that all two thousand-plus emails had been marked as read. Opening the sent folder, he found Brainiac's replies clearly listed beneath them.
For greeting emails, he had replied only with polite formalities; for master's or doctoral applications, every response had been, "No openings available. Not under consideration at present." It seemed the guy had looked up his admissions records from recent years.
Then came the main event: paper comments and revisions. Schiller looked over the comments on several of his current graduate students' papers. They were quite well reasoned and extremely detailed, even more detailed than his own replies.
Then again, he currently had three graduate students, and two of them belonged to the Behavioral Science school. Artificial intelligence was best at this sort of work that required no creativity.
Next came the most important part. Several of Bruce's doctoral papers had been sitting unread in Schiller's inbox.
To meet the requirements for his doctorate, Bruce had been constantly writing papers. But whenever Schiller saw his name in the inbox, it basically meant his workday was over—whatever Bruce had written could wait until tomorrow.
And so tomorrow followed tomorrow. Papers Bruce had written half a year ago were still sitting in the inbox, and until yesterday, they had remained unread.
Schiller was truly lacking some great piece of good news that could give him the courage to open those emails. So when he saw that this one had also been marked as read, he was even a little dazed.
Even knowing that the paper had probably already been annotated, Schiller still needed some additional emotional compensation. So he asked, "Brainiac, what do you think of this paper?"
"Do you mean this one?"