Transferring Schools

Attending Wilmott Academy for Gifted Children would clearly be more promising, with better teachers. The teachers there are much more skilled than those in public high schools, and there's more to learn. Even many university-level subjects are taught there.

At the same time, the students there either have above-average intelligence or come from very good families, which will be of significant help to Link in the future. Furthermore, Link's various attributes can be better improved there.

Of course, Link would also feel some reluctance. After all, he had only spent a few months freely enjoying his youth at Lola High School. However, Link believed that he would also have a very good high school career at the new school.

Two days later, Link and Sheldon said goodbye to their familiar friends. Leaving aside how Sheldon said goodbye to his friends, Peggy, while playing chess with Link, said after hearing the news:

"Really? You're going to school in Dallas? That seems a bit far."

"It's not too far. It's about a three-hour drive. So I'll be staying there from Monday to Friday. The school has found a host family, and I'll come back every weekend."

"That sounds good," Peggy said. "But I might miss you. After all, being with you is much more interesting than being at school. There are many topics I can only discuss when I'm talking with you.

In fact, there are many topics I can't discuss with other classmates at school, except for Sheldon."

"I know, you've mentioned it to me. He's also a very smart kid. Speaking of which, I'm also curious about how smart he is, since you said he's as smart as me."

"Perhaps you'll have a chance to meet him in the future," Link said. "Of course, Sheldon is a little different from you in one aspect, and that is he's worse than you in terms of emotional intelligence."

"Emotional intelligence?"

"This concept was just proposed by psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey. It mainly refers to a person's qualities in terms of emotions, willpower, tolerance for frustration, and so on.

It's different from IQ. Simply put, it's the ability to control one's emotions freely, understand others, and get along with others. Generally speaking, there are no significant innate differences in emotional intelligence between people; it's more closely related to nurture."

"This concept is very interesting. I can look up related papers later. Also, is that Sheldon really not good at getting along with people?"

"You could say that. Your emotional intelligence is clearly not a problem, but Sheldon is obviously much worse. I have to say, you are a very perfect girl."

"Thank you. That's an important reason why I like playing with you. I really like the feeling of being smarter than others, but if I show it, my classmates will treat me like a freak. On the other hand, you never do that and even praise me."

Peggy moved a chess piece and said, "Speaking of which, I feel like you've become smarter again. Or rather, since I've known you, you've become smarter every so often. For example, when I play chess with you now, if it were two years ago, I would have checkmated you long ago."

"Really? Perhaps spending time with smart people has increased my intelligence. Otherwise, I wouldn't have received a scholarship to Wilmott Academy for Gifted Children, although it's less than Sheldon's living allowance."

"That's really impressive, but... checkmate! You lost! Hahaha... Perhaps that's why I like being smarter than others."

... Looking at Peggy's snickering expression with some helplessness, Link couldn't help but reach out and press her head, rubbing it hard and saying, "Perhaps I should revise my previous evaluation of you!"

After playing around for a while, Peggy finally said, "Okay, anyway, I'll miss you. After all, I've gotten used to seeing you every day."

"Of course, I'll miss you too."

After completing all the procedures, on this weekend, Link's family and Sheldon's family drove to Flora's house at the same time. They also met her husband, and Link and Sheldon visited Flora's home.

The house was well-decorated, and they could ask Mr. and Mrs. Flora questions at any time. Link was very satisfied with everything, except for the headache of having to discuss bed assignments, bathroom schedules, and so on with Sheldon.

This made Link realize that it was truly not easy for Leonard to tolerate Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory. After just a few hours, Link genuinely felt the urge to give Sheldon a good beating.

So after dinner, Sheldon prepared for bed early according to his schedule, while Link borrowed Principal Flora's study and didn't return to the room to prepare for bed until half past eleven.

But he quickly found that Sheldon wasn't asleep at all; instead, his eyes were wide open. Seeing this, Link asked, "What are you doing, Sheldon? Didn't you say you were going to bed early? You're still not asleep!"

"Because I could be decapitated at any moment!" Sheldon said, pointing to the ceiling fan, and then continued, "Also, there's a dust cover on the bed in the room, which makes me uneasy. A dust cover means there's dust here!"

"Sheldon, I think you're worrying unnecessarily."

"No, do you need me to tell you how many people die each year from ceiling fans falling down? The answer is..."

At this moment, Link felt that perhaps he had made a wrong decision and shouldn't have chosen Sheldon as his roommate. After all, he wasn't Leonard, who had to endure a mother with a similar personality since childhood and was already used to it all.

"Simply worrying won't make things better, and if you feel it's dangerous, you can suggest to Flora tomorrow that this ceiling fan be removed. For now, it's better to sleep peacefully."

After saying that, Link ignored Sheldon and lay down on the bed to sleep. However, he was soon woken up because Coach George came over in the middle of the night, intending to take Sheldon back, the reason being that Mary missed Sheldon too much.

Although this meant losing a useful person in the rest of his school life, Link didn't feel any regret at all at this moment; in fact, he felt extremely fortunate.

Because he truly realized that being roommates with Sheldon was a century-old problem, and Leonard really didn't have it easy at all.

In the following few days, Link adapted to the new school and life at Flora's house. Although he left Lola High School and lost Sheldon, the experience baby, the speed of Link's academic growth not only didn't decrease but slightly increased.

Due to his entrance test scores, Link was placed in Class A, which, according to the saying on the other side of the Pacific, was a gifted class, and he started directly from the eleventh grade.

Considering that the school year was already nearing its end, it meant that after the summer vacation starting in two months, Link could enter the twelfth grade. In just over a year at most, he could graduate from high school.

There weren't many students in Class A, just over twenty in total, but each one was someone with some talent in terms of intelligence, so the courses taught were more in-depth than in regular high schools.

In addition, it was said that after entering the twelfth grade, basic university courses would be directly offered, and the grades from some of these courses were even recognized by many famous universities.

The teachers responsible for teaching were highly skilled. Furthermore, after returning to his residence, he could also ask Flora and her husband for guidance. The principal, who had many years of teaching experience, and her husband were much better at teaching people than Sheldon. Many problems could be explained in a way that was easier for Link to understand.

Of course, as a top private school, the management here was also very strict, completely different from the extremely relaxed public high schools. The academic workload was completely comparable to that on the other side of the Pacific. Studying at such a school, Link actually felt a strange sense of familiarity and closeness.

With so many benefits, Link did not choose to return to Lola High School. Even though Sheldon was the protagonist of The Big Bang Theory, it didn't mean that Link had to revolve around him.