Not long after Jiang Xia and the others entered the school, they saw a crowd gathered around the school bulletin board.
Those stuck at the edge asked the people in front, "What are you looking at?"
"Are all the workplaces assigned to the graduates announced here?"
"No. You have to check for yourself which workplace you were assigned to. We're looking at Teacher Jiang Xia's paper."
"Teacher Jiang Xia published a paper? What kind of paper?"
"Her graduation thesis. It's incredibly well-written—just as expected of Teacher Jiang Xia. She's amazing!"
"Graduation thesis? Isn't Teacher Jiang Xia only a freshman? How did she publish a graduation thesis?"
"That's why I said she's amazing! She finished four years' worth of major courses in her first year and graduated. And not only did she take the undergraduate graduation exam, she also took the graduate entrance exam for economics."
"This paper is incredible. I study economics, yet I actually can't understand the paper written by someone majoring in Fashion Design!"
"Did Teacher Jiang Xia also major in economics? I've never seen her attend our classes!"
"I've never seen Teacher Jiang Xia attend classes in our department either, but near the end of the semester, I saw her reading economics books in the library. I sat right beside her then, and she read incredibly fast! In the time it took me to read one passage, she had finished a whole page and turned it over. At the time, I thought she was looking something up. Who would've thought she was preparing for the exam?"
"I also saw Teacher Jiang Xia reading economics books in the library. She read for several days in a row, and I even saw her borrow one or two books every time she left, then return them the next day."
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