Dai Lu is a female teacher in the Medical Department of Gusu University.
Besides her daily teaching duties, she spends some time every day writing a diary, recording the little details of her life.
“February 15th, a particularly handsome male teacher came to the Medical Department, his name is Chen Yu.
He graduated from the 8-year Clinical Medicine program at Fudan University Medical School, a true high achiever!
Coincidentally, Chen Yu was assigned to the same office as me.
From our brief interactions, Chen Yu seems like a sunny boy, full of energy!”
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“February 17th, as I passed by the teaching building, I saw Chen Yu giving a lecture to the students of the 10th Clinical Medicine (1) class.
Out of curiosity, I eavesdropped from outside for a while.
I couldn’t believe it!
Little Teacher Chen’s teaching skills are simply phenomenal!
With such a high level of expertise, he could easily become a professor at the senior level, even if he wasn’t a lecturer at the Medical Department.
I wonder, are the teaching skills and medical knowledge of young people nowadays so outrageous?
If all the new teachers could reach Teacher Chen’s level, I’m afraid teachers like me with average skills would be dismissed by the school?
Whew…
Luckily, it was a false alarm.
I also listened to other new teachers’ lectures.
Except for Teacher Chen, they were all just average.
Haha, now I won’t be fired!”
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“February 21st, I noticed that Teacher Chen is constantly on the go, what’s going on?
Newly hired lecturers shouldn’t have such a heavy teaching workload!
After asking around, I discovered that Teacher Chen had volunteered to take over the courses of three teachers who were on leave, to teach the students.
Goodness?!
Does he need to work this hard?!
Teacher Chen is now teaching ten classes, covering four subjects: Clinical Surgery, Clinical Epidemiology, Surgery, and Medical Pathology.
Assuming one class has one lecture per week, that means ten lectures!
Normally, with five days of classes per week, even a full schedule would only allow for twenty lectures.
Young people are full of energy, amazing!”
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“February 23rd, what’s wrong with Teacher Chen?
I heard that besides his own ten lectures, he’s also asking other teachers if they need someone to cover their classes.
Is he not satisfied with his workload?
Unfortunately, the teachers in the Medical Department have research tasks and need to attend lectures, academic seminars, and so on.
They’d be thrilled if someone could cover their classes for them!
Isn’t Teacher Chen just jumping into the line of fire?!”
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“February 25th, Teacher Chen is incredible!
I heard that in addition to his ten lectures, he’s also going to cover classes for Teacher Wang, Teacher Qin, Teacher Sun, Teacher Li, and Teacher Huang this week.
The courses include Histology and Embryology, Medical Psychology, Anesthesiology, Rehabilitation Medicine, and Oncology.
I never imagined that Teacher Chen is so versatile in the medical field!
But he has a full schedule every day, it must be really hard.
Except for morning, midday, and evening when he’s in the office, Teacher Chen is teaching students every day.
He probably needs to prepare for his lectures at night.
If this continues, even an iron man wouldn’t be able to handle it!”
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“February 28th, I learned the real reason behind Teacher Chen’s hard work from my colleagues.
Apparently, Teacher Chen is extremely short of money.
He doesn’t smoke, drink, or date.
He works so hard teaching every day, just to earn that little bit of extra pay.
In Gusu University, lecturers get paid 50 yuan per lecture.
If Teacher Chen teaches twenty lectures a week, his pay would be 1,000 yuan.
That means 4,000 yuan a month.
Generally, a semester has 34 weeks of classes.
If Teacher Chen keeps up this intensity, he can earn 34,000 yuan in class fees on top of his 200,000 yuan annual salary.
Actually, I don’t think it’s very worthwhile.
If he just wants to make money, he could do some research in his spare time.
Once his research makes progress, he’ll be able to make a lot of money.
However, research results aren’t so easy to achieve.
In any case, I hope Teacher Chen’s financial situation improves soon!”
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“March 1st, the Medical Department gave me a task.
They said that in a week, it’ll be the March 8th Women’s Day gala.
The Medical Department asked me to write a piece of copy to pay tribute to all women.
But…
My writing is limited, I can’t write anything at all.
What should I do?
Haha, there’s always hope!
During lunch break, Teacher Chen saw that I was anxious and asked me what was wrong.
I told him about this, truthfully.
Upon learning about my poor writing skills, Teacher Chen took a piece of paper and wrote a piece of copy for me, asking if it was okay.
I took a look and was immediately astonished.
The copy reads:
‘Someone once said that we can’t handle high-intensity pressure, we can’t do intense medical work, having children and getting married will affect hospital operations, we can’t enter the operating room. But, is that really true?
In 1921, Lin Qiaozhi was admitted to Union Medical College, a hundred years ago, she began research on cervical cancer in Xia State, saving the lives of countless women. She delivered over 50,000 babies in her lifetime and was known as the mother of ten thousand babies.
She remained single and childless all her life, because the appointment letter she received stated that if she married and got pregnant during the term of her appointment, she would be automatically dismissed.
… Someone once said that we are incapable of handling logical work, that we lack rationality, that we cannot understand the patterns behind the screens full of characters, that we can’t write code that changes the world. But, is that really true?
The first programmer in human history was a woman, her name was Ada Lovelace. In 1842, she wrote the first ever program design flowchart, and the revolution of information technology began.
… Someone once said that we are shortsighted, that we are only suitable for simple work, that we are not allowed to operate telescopes, that our intelligence cannot understand complex celestial bodies and complex calculations. But, is that really true?
When others were simply classifying and organizing simple photographic plates at the observatory, Henrietta Swan Leavitt wasn’t satisfied with that, she delved into the formula of the change in brightness of stars, and the world learned that the Milky Way is not the entirety of the universe, beyond the Milky Way, there is a wider, larger universe!’
… Remember each of the shining women, so that this world can be changed by more and more of us, together!
I must say, Teacher Chen’s copy is simply a perfect essay.
Haha, I didn’t expect Teacher Chen to be such a treasure boy!
With this copy, I can easily complete the task assigned by the Medical Department, thank you Teacher Chen!”
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“March 3rd, the copy that Teacher Chen wrote for me was chosen to be the opening speech for the Gusu University 2014 March 8th Women’s Day gala, which earned me a commendation from the Medical Department.
I wanted to treat Teacher Chen to dinner as a thank you.
Unfortunately, Teacher Chen politely declined.
He said that he’s been very busy lately.
He teaches during the day, prepares for lectures at night, records teaching videos, writes medical textbooks, and prepares SCI medical papers.
He’s busy until late every night, he doesn’t even have time to eat.
I understand, and I’m very surprised.
Teacher Chen is even more hard-working than I imagined.
Such a young male teacher is truly remarkable!
The stars will not disappoint those who keep moving forward.
He is bound to succeed!
It’s alright, there’s plenty of time.
When Teacher Chen is less busy in the future, I’ll definitely treat him to a nice dinner!”