This time my academic-year paper was rated excellent. That was no surprise, really; after all, among ten people I ought to be able to squeeze in somehow.
As expected, Teacher lsl places considerable emphasis on undergraduate research. What he said hit the nail on the head: if problems only surface when it comes to the graduation thesis, then the teachers really have no choice but to “swallow bitter huanglian and stay silent,” because in general no one has the heart to stop a student from graduating just because of the final paper. This is true not only of undergraduates, but of master’s students as well, just as Teacher Liu put it, “a great degree giveaway.” Indeed, there are also a few people who muddle through four years of university and finally scrape by with an unpresentable thesis. But if the graduation thesis is already a disaster, then all one can do is turn a blind eye; only by paying attention to the quality of the academic-year paper can problems be caught in time and treated according to the symptoms. Those who write well should be encouraged, and those whose work reveals problems should be corrected promptly. That really is a good way to do it.
Speaking of how next semester there will also be a research fund for team collaboration, supporting two groups, with 2,000 yuan for each group of three to four people. The requirement is that the leader of each group must have received an excellent rating for the academic-year paper, and the topic cannot stray too far from the academic-year paper—that is, it should be further developed on that basis rather than completely torn down and rebuilt from scratch. That sounds pretty good.
Two thousand yuan doesn’t really matter, but as Mist said, wasn’t I expecting discussion? This is an opportunity.
However, as Teacher Wu said, in philosophy papers, anything coauthored by multiple people usually does not turn out better; that is indeed true, and history has never produced a philosophical classic written jointly by several people. But we undergraduates are just casually doing a topic to sharpen ourselves; we are not trying to write some classic masterpiece, so multi-person collaboration is actually quite nice.
I don’t know what the other excellent academic-year papers are about. If anyone wants to team up with me, I’d be more than happy. If I’m just a participant rather than the leader, I feel I could handle any topic. But looking at the boys’ side, it seems lwz is the only one with the air of a leader? If I were to take the lead, I would probably choose something in philosophy of language. There happens to be a philosophy of language course next semester, so both timing and location are in place; maybe it would be worth a try. But thinking about it, it seems that besides Mist there probably aren’t many people among the boys who might join. I wonder whether lwz would be interested (though he is too “flashy,” and seems more suited to being a chief…
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- mist
2007-06-19 13:20:13 Anonymous 124.17.16.44
If it won’t work on the boys’ side, you could consider pulling in a girl…
- mist
2007-06-19 13:21:10 Anonymous 124.17.16.44
Or there’s no harm in recruiting people in next semester’s class
- Gǔ Chǔ
2007-06-19 16:20:20
Just saying it, not necessarily really doing it; we’ll see then? If you can find a suitable girl, of course that would be great. Actually, if you can bring in one of those legendary students from the Department of Mathematics or the Department of Physics, that would also work, haha… I’m not too sure what topics those girls’ excellent papers are about—maybe some interesting directions? Especially in religious studies. If a girl wants to pull me in, I’d be happy too. Is it okay for one person to hold two topics? …Though the biggest possibility is still that I won’t join any topic at all… But even if I don’t formally join a topic, I can still join the discussions, right.
- mist
2007-06-19 20:07:02 Anonymous 124.17.16.44
No rush now, focus on the exams first~ I’m not familiar with the girls in the class~ Xue Li and Zhu are both members of your six-person group, so you might as well ask them… As for the Department of Mathematics or the Department of Physics, if I successfully get recommended for graduate study next semester, I’ll go and peddle my wares there…
Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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