Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 22: Small Money
Subtitle of this chapter: Half a courtyard house in the capital in exchange for a Ph.D. in New York
Professor Owen Adams immediately responded to Yuan Yan's offer. He turned to his colleague and asked, "Julian, what is your opinion?"
Professor Chandler replied, "Owen, I have no problem with this. However, you need three professors to sign the application for a doctorate by skipping a grade, and we are still short of one."
Professor Adams waved the pipe in his hand and said with rare pride: "I believe that as long as Yuan's paper is written, Stern College will not be unable to find someone willing to co-sign with us..."
It is not uncommon for a PhD to emerge from one of the students under my supervision, but the value of a PhD who can write such a masterpiece of theoretical economics is naturally much different. Who will dare to say that he can only be a bank counter manager in the future?
Professor Chandler nodded and said, "You are right. Then..."
He turned to Yuan Yan and said, "You must complete this paper before March next year. And... you have to pay the money."
It is indeed this evil capitalist society where everything depends on money.
Yuan Yan frowned and said, "But I have already paid the tuition. Doesn't it include the cost of the thesis defense?"
The two professors were stunned when they heard this. This Chinese man must have got the point wrong. Compared with completing a doctoral dissertation of at least 300 to 400 pages within six months, for a "gentleman", paying a little money is nothing?
But the nickname "Good Old Adams"He had a good temper and patiently explained, "Mr. Yuan, you paid for a master's degree, but now you are applying for a Ph.D., which is of course different."
If someone pays two years of master's tuition, but applies for a doctorate when writing the thesis, and if this guy is actually passed, doesn't it mean that he has spent the master's tuition to become a doctor ?
NYU is a private university, not a night school for workers. So you have to pay... so pay it.
Professor Adams stood up and took out a file from the bookshelf, flipped through it, and then said, "The tuition and general fees for the two-year PhD program, excluding room and textbook fees, is a total of $800.. "
Is 800 US dollars a lot? Actually, it is not much. According to purchasing power parity, it is roughly equivalent to 12,000 US dollars in Yuan Hongjian's era. If calculated according to the gold price (22 US dollars/1 ounce of gold), it is equivalent to more than 300,000 RMB. If calculated according to the salary level, it is roughly equivalent to the current annual salary of skilled workers in the United States. Of course, if calculated according to Ms. Ivanovna's "salary", it is 80 times.
However, the account can still be calculated this way. At this time, 800 US dollars can be used to buy a house in Shanghai, and it is not a one-bedroom apartment in the far suburbs, but a duplex of at least 100 square meters in a prosperous area in the city such as the one around the Great World!
If we calculate the housing prices in the imperial capital... In 1919, when the May Fourth Movement took place, Mr. Lu Xun bought a courtyard house in Beijing, with three courtyards and more than 20 rooms, for a total price of 3,500 yuan. According to the exchange rate, it is exactly equivalent to 1,600 US dollars, twice the 800 US dollars. This is a courtyard house within the third ring road of the imperial capital!
But even if the $800 was enough to buy the Forbidden City, Yuan Yanshu still had to pay for it. Of course, he certainly didn't have that much money, so he had to write a letter to his family to ask for it.
Now that he was done with his business, he was about to say goodbye to the two professors when he heard the Master Ball making a strange noise again.
"Ding ding ding, the host is obtaining B coins, the system is calculating..."
"Ding ding ding, the host has received 17B coins, and the current balance is 20B coins."
"Ah, there are only so few this time?!"
"Host, please read the instructions carefully."
The two professors at Stern College are actually unknown in history, but they have a good understanding of the profession. However, since Yuan Yanshu's book "Socialism" is only an outline and a table of contents, I can't say whether I like it or not, I can only say that I am relatively optimistic about it. Moreover, these two are inevitably a bit racist, so their impression score should be greatly discounted.
If we calculate it this way, 13B coins are not considered low based on the base of 5% B coins. Of course, compared with the 10003B coins provided by Anastasia, it is dwarfed.
Yuan Yanshu really couldn't understand why she could get so many B coins by giving "Fifty Shades of Grey" to the "Red Queen of Queens"?
I was fooled by the Master Ball last time, so I must get things clear this time.
"Host, you are asking about this. Didn't I tell you last time that this book greatly accelerated the speed of history moving in the right direction? And the lady who did a lot of popularization work, when calculating the B-coins she provided, she multiplied the variables, so she had so many B-coins."
"SM is also the right direction of history?!"
"Of course . Host, do you know Michel Foucault?"
“Is that the postmodernist master and homosexual?”
"Host, this system has discovered that you are very concerned about the sexual orientation of the masters."
"Tsk, Master Ball, what do you know? Most normal people can't understand the theories of the masters of postmodernism. If they don't do things that normal people don't do, how can a normal person like me remember them?"
"Host, there is no need to keep claiming that you are straight. This is a symbol of feudalism and backwardness in your era."
"Okay, answer the question."
"Michel Foucault believed that the end of the 18th century was the exact time when the SM culture phenomenon appeared. However, in the following hundreds of years, it was just some people's personal behavior, and it was also an activity carried out purely in private occasions outside of social life. It was not until the second half of this century that it gradually became an increasingly eye-catching social and cultural phenomenon, and finally became a real subculture."
"And host, you have promoted this historical process, and have completely harmed the development of the main line of history, so... please keep working hard!"
How can I work so hard?! Is it possible that I will plagiarize "Lolita" next time... Yuan Yan felt a chill down her spine. This is a three-year project.
At this time, Yuan Yan suddenly realized that she had to write the book "Socialism" first. Then she could get some B currency from the academic , and then... how about copying "Brokeback Mountain" or "The Danish Girl"?
He did what he said, and bought typewriter ribbons, standard manuscript paper, food, coffee, and cigarettes from stationery stores and grocery stores on his way home. There was no other way, Master Yuan couldn't keep up without the latter two things to keep him motivated.
