Opposite the desk is a black leather folding chair, which should be Dong Qiangqiang's seat.
The professor nodded friendly to Dong Qiangqiang: "Good morning, please sit down."
As Dong Qiangqiang sat down, he heard the professor introduce, "I am Professor Thomas Chemnitz from the Department of Economics, this lady is Dr. Mara Weimer from the Trier University Examination Committee, and this man is Trier Professor Andreas Bernstein of the University Examination Board. I will be in charge of today’s conversation with you, and my two colleagues will also participate in the entire process. They will also ask you questions. Please answer carefully and honestly.”
Dong Qiangqiang's only worry before the conversation was that he couldn't understand the professor's German. After all, Trier belongs to the southwest region of Germany and is at the junction of several European countries. It has many accents and dialects, which is completely different from the standard German commonly spoken in Hannover. If you don't understand and answer the question incorrectly, it will definitely affect the result of being exempted from class. Fortunately, Professor Thomas's German was not only standard, but his speaking speed was much lower than that of the preparatory German teacher. It seemed that he was interested in taking care of him, a foreign student.
Professor Thomas left an excellent first impression on Dong Qiangqiang.
"Hello, teachers." Dong Qiangqiang greeted with a smile.
The woman had neat brown shoulder-length hair and a face with sharp edges and strong bones. She immediately told Dong Qiangqiang that she was German.
Her face showed no expression even when the professor introduced her, and she didn't even say hello to Dong Qiangqiang after the introduction, as if Dong Qiangqiang did not exist.
Professor Andreas Bernstein is obviously older than the other two, and has a slicked-back hair that is very incongruous with his status as a teacher. Because he has applied too much hair wax, he has a greasy look. visual sense. The drooping triangular eyes sparkle on the long, horse-like face. He stared at Dong Qiangqiang intently, as if he would attack at any time.
As if he had confirmed with the woman in advance, he did not take the initiative to say hello to Dong Qiangqiang.
Dong Qiangqiang put the original materials he brought on the professor's desk. At this time, Zheng Chunhua also handed Dong Qiangqiang's previously copied materials to the other two people. Before leaving the office, she secretly gave Dong Qiangqiang a thumbs up. Dong Qiangqiang nodded. Indicate that you have received the other person's thoughts.
Professor Thomas went straight to the topic while looking through Dong Qiangqiang's transcript: "Please briefly explain what courses you have taken in Chinese universities?"
Dong Qiangqiang thought to himself: Aren’t the subjects studied and test scores written in the notarial certificates? Why even ask? But after thinking about it, I understood the reason: If it is a person who falsified transcripts, the first question will probably reveal the secret. Even if the secret is not revealed, he will panic, panic will make him lose his temper, and the panic will cause his words and actions to change. Deformation.
He quickly glanced at the two people on the examination committee with his peripheral vision, and saw the two men staring at him eagerly as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
Although Dong Qiangqiang studied at a junior college in China, his domestic grades were solid and without any glimmers of merit. Plus he had a year of preparatory studies, so he didn’t panic at all. He immediately replied in an unarrogant manner: “The subjects I studied in domestic universities are mainly There are three major modules, namely mathematics module, economics module and finance module. In mathematics, I have studied calculus, advanced algebra, probability and mathematical statistics. In the economics module, I have mainly studied Mankiw’s economic principles, macroeconomics and microeconomics. Studies, Western economics, international economics, etc. In the finance module, I have studied securities investment, corporate finance, investment banking..."
His good friends have long warned him: During the interview, he must draw the other person's attention to the courses he has carefully prepared. On the one hand, the results of the courses he listed are relatively good, which can easily arouse the other party's attention (or suspicion). On the other hand, some of the courses he did not actually learn in China, but in the German preparatory school. These recent The knowledge learned is clearer and more solid. As long as the other party is interested and Dong Qiangqiang can freely express himself on any subject, he can easily use all 20 minutes. Especially for knowledge points related to economics, as long as you finish explaining the concepts and give a few examples, time will run out.
The professor's fingers like dry branches followed Dong Qiangqiang's introduction and wandered among the different subjects on his transcript. As soon as Dong Qiangqiang finished speaking, the professor immediately threw a few calculus questions at him.
For Dong Qiangqiang, who has been doing calculus problems for a year, these problems are all small roles that can be easily solved by applying formulas.
Seeing the problem-solving process and answers written by Dong Qiangqiang on the paper, the professor nodded with satisfaction.
Dong Qiangqiang was secretly happy when he saw the professor draw a "√" in the space behind "Advanced Mathematics".
For Dong Qiangqiang, oh, no, to be precise, it should be that for all Chinese students who go abroad based on their ability, mathematics has never been a problem.
Dong Qiangqiang couldn't help but feel secretly happy at his success. The professor followed his introduction and started asking questions from the beginning. The interview process was much the same as he had imagined: the teacher asked questions, the classmates answered, the teacher asked questions based on the students' answers, and finally based on the quality of the answers. Decide whether to exempt students from corresponding subjects. The people from the examination committee only listened to make sure that the teacher did not engage in malpractice for personal gain.
After his own ideas were confirmed, all that was left was to write down and recite. For those concepts that he was familiar with, he didn't even need to recite them. He just talked about his understanding. It seems that the exemption from classes is not as exaggerated as Zheng Chunhua and Du Lan said. He should be able to win it today.
He felt uplifted, even his muscles felt instantly soothed and relaxed.
The professor asked again: "Can you explain the meaning of the prisoner's dilemma and Nash equilibrium? And how people can get out of the prisoner's dilemma?"
The prisoner's dilemma is a typical example of a static game with complete information in economics game theory. Dong Qiangqiang has experienced it twice in college and preparatory school, so he is no stranger to it.
"The Prisoner's Dilemma was first proposed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Drescher of the Rand Corporation in the United States. It was proposed by Albert Tucker in 1950 in the context of a dispute between two arrested prisoners. Taking this special game relationship as an example, he elaborated it more comprehensively and in detail and formed the Prisoner's Theory, which was later officially named the Prisoner's Dilemma..."
He was about to talk when the woman from the examination committee suddenly made a pause gesture towards him. Dong Qiangqiang had to stop for some reason.
"Please answer the question in English." The woman asked expressionlessly.
English? Dong Qiangqiang felt that the muscles that had just been relaxed became tense again.
"Do you mean," Dong Qiangqiang asked deliberately and slowly in German, "should this question be answered in English or should all questions be answered in English?" He wanted to buy himself more time to think.
Seeing that Dong Qiangqiang was puzzled, the woman carefully pinched the lower edge of the copy of his transcript with her left thumb and index finger. She pointed to the results on it with her right index finger and said to Dong Qiangqiang: "The notary certificate shows that your oral English score in college was very good. , so please answer all questions in English."
The woman pronounced "English" and "all questions" very hard, for fear that Dong Qiangqiang would not understand.
Although Dong Qiangqiang's English speaking scores are real, he did not prepare English specifically for what he learned in college, and mainly focused on German. When Professor Thomas came up to communicate with him in German, he also thought that today's conversation must be communicated in German.
Only now did he realize that today's conversation was very different from the script he had imagined.
But the other party's request was reasonable and reasonable. If he insisted on answering in German, it would definitely arouse the other party's doubts about his performance. He suddenly understood why the international friend in front of him was disgraced. Maybe he made a mistake in this place.
He took a deep breath and tried to slow his heartbeat.
Don't panic! Hold on!
Although his English is not as good as German, it is much better than at home. If I had come directly to the University of Trier to talk about exempting classes, I'm afraid the reaction now would be even worse.
He suddenly felt lucky: lucky that he did not get the direct admission notice from the University of Trier in China, lucky that he studied English for another year in the preparatory course, lucky that he had to be exposed to English articles every day, and lucky that Duanmu forced him to read English materials. He didn't get lazy and didn't give up. Fortunately, he still spoke English from time to time when leading tour groups.
He has really sacrificed a lot to get to where he is today, and he doesn't allow himself to give up easily.
"Is there any problem?" "Big Back Head" asked solemnly, squinting his eyes.
Dong Qiangqiang quickly ran through the Chinese content he wanted to express in his mind, then looked at the woman and "Big Back Head" with a smile, and replied categorically in English: "No problem."
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