"You child! What's so special about a doctorate? I'd rather you came back a few years earlier," Mom said, pretending to scold him.
Dad, however, seemed thoughtful. "You know, if Wang Ye really gets a doctorate, he'll be the first doctorate holder in our Wang family. That'd bring honor to our ancestors!"
That was true enough.
Even counting all of Wang Ye's paternal and maternal cousins, not a single one had earned a doctorate...
If Wang Ye got a doctoral degree, he would indeed be the first PhD in the entire extended family!
Wang Ye hurriedly agreed. "Exactly, exactly! I'm going to be the first PhD in the Wang family! Besides, doctorates over there are relatively easy. After graduating with a bachelor's degree, another five years should be enough to finish smoothly."
Mom clicked her tongue. "Another five years? That's so long!"
"Two years for a master's and three for a doctorate. That's already considered fast," Dad explained, clearly knowing a little more about it.
In truth, it was not an easy thing for foreign students to earn a doctoral degree in Russia!
Perhaps undergraduate diplomas there were easy enough to coast through. As long as you did not completely screw yourself over, showed your face in class now and then so the teachers knew you, and did not skip your exams, you could basically graduate without issue.
Yet even that was beyond many international students!
There were simply too many oddballs among overseas students...
In Wang Ye's previous life, there had been a Chinese guy in his dorm building, in the same year and class as him. That guy was a true "legend"!
He set a record for not leaving the dormitory building for three straight months!
Wang Ye remembered that World of Warcraft had just launched at the