Li Zetian’s three roommates came back very late, talking about their romantic affairs as soon as they returned.
Li Zetian listened for a while and went to sleep, feeling that he was not on the same channel as them.
Early the next morning, when others were still sleeping, Li Zetian had already gotten up.
After washing up, he went out alone to familiarize himself with the environment of Harvard University.
At the same time, he also hoped to unexpectedly meet the girl named Chen Ruoxi from last night.
In fact, Li Zetian couldn’t forget her; his mind last night was full of her figure!
Unfortunately, since that parting, he hadn’t met her again for a long time.
On the third day, school officially started.
Besides music, literature, history, and economics as compulsory courses, Li Zetian took elective courses in mathematics, computer science, electronic engineering, etc.!
Nietzsche once said: “Only geniuses and madmen can enjoy loneliness!”
Li Zetian was a genius and also a madman.
Once he started studying, he would forget to eat and sleep.
In the eyes of others, including his roommates, Li Zetian was just a bookworm who didn’t know how to enjoy college life, participate in social activities, or chase girls.
However, Li Zetian himself enjoyed this state very much and found pleasure in it.
And precisely because of this, although Harvard University was full of geniuses, he was able to stand out, and many people were even secretly paying attention to him, Bill Gates being one of them.
Bill Gates was from the law department, but he also enrolled in math courses.
Sometimes, several math classes would have lectures together in a large classroom.
The professor would raise some math problems in class and ask students to solve them on the spot.
Bill Gates’ mathematical talent was undoubtedly very strong; however, there were always two people in the class whose mathematical abilities were better than his.
One was Steve Ballmer, and the other was Li Zetian from China!
Steve Ballmer participated in a math competition in high school and achieved a top 10 ranking in the entire United States, getting a scholarship to the Harvard math department.
He scored a perfect 1600 in the American college entrance examination SAT, making him a math genius.
What surprised Bill Gates was that Li Zetian was a student in the music department, but his attainments in mathematics far surpassed the two of them.
As the saying goes, “Birds of a feather flock together, and people of a mind fall into the same group!”
In less than a month, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Li Zetian quickly came together.
That was during a math class on the morning of September 21st, when the math professor gave everyone a set of very difficult test papers for an exam. This chapter is updated first at g.com.
Li Zetian, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer, who finished first, were praised by the professor.
The three got to know each other because of this and became good friends.
Steve Ballmer was an active element in the school, while Li Zetian and Bill Gates were more like-minded, both being homebodies.
When Bill Gates learned that Li Zetian was very interested in computer programming and his skills were not bad, he proposed an invitation to move into the same dorm room and live together.
He excitedly said to Li Zetian: “Li, move over and live together!!!”
When Li Zetian first heard this, he got goosebumps all over.
My sexual orientation is normal, I don’t do gay stuff!
However, on second thought, Bill Gates’ sexual orientation was normal, no problem, he shouldn’t be bent because of me…
“Okay!” Li Zetian nodded and agreed.
For one thing, he could pull closer to Bill Gates; for another, he couldn’t chat well with his three roommates like Charles Elinor.
Bill Gates had two roommates, and they were both very willing to swap places with Li Zetian.
Living with a nerd like Bill Gates had no passion; living with 3 boys from the music department, that was much cooler!
The music department had many beauties, and dorm parties were held frequently!
It was simply too joyful!
When Steve Ballmer learned that Li Zetian had moved into Bill Gates’ dorm, he subsequently moved over as well.
Besides going to class, Li Zetian either stayed in the dorm or soaked in the university’s computer room, and even slept directly in there for several nights.
So much so that students coming to class the next day were astonished to find snoring sounds coming from the computer room.
Of course, this incident later became a joke on the Harvard campus.
But when Li Zetian achieved fame and success, this turned into an extremely inspiring campus story!
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Time passed in a flash.
On October 5th, Li Zetian received a letter sent by his parents.
The letter said that after they resigned and handed over their work at the newspaper and school, they left Hong Kong on September 4th and went to Taipei City, Taiwan.
Father Li Chengzhi took over a small magazine owned by granduncle, and planned to serialize “The Devotion of Suspect X” in the magazine on November 1st.
Mother Xiao Zhixuan also found a job at a local school, becoming a junior high school music teacher.
“November 1st, that’s next month. New chapters come out on g.com first.
I wonder what the sales situation of ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ in Taiwan will be like then?” Li Zetian muttered, a bit nervous and a bit expectant.
But overall, after reading the letter and knowing his parents had settled down there, he felt relieved and at ease.
Over in Taiwan, the magazine Li Chengzhi took over was called “Life”, featuring prose and essays, feature photos, female fashion, and so on.
It was a monthly publication.
After Li Chengzhi took over, he decided to add a novel column, cut down on prose and essays, and at the same time change the monthly publication to a weekly publication.
Once prose and essays are read, they’re read; people wouldn’t look forward to what’s coming next, which simply meant insufficient user stickiness!
The workload for a weekly magazine was huge, so the content must be prepared in advance, just like TV stations recording several episodes of variety shows in advance!
Li Zetian then carefully put the letter into the cabinet, and subsequently tidied his clothes and hair in front of the mirror, preparing to go to a company for a job interview later.
Li Zetian didn’t have much money left.
The money from selling the song paid the tuition, and his parents gave him $1,000 for living expenses, but it was “squandered away” by him, buying chips, memories, circuit boards, and other hardware.
In this era, software engineers and hardware engineers were not finely divided yet.
An awesome engineer must be proficient in both software and hardware.
Li Zetian couldn’t do this yet; needless to say about software, he studied computer programming originally, and his mind was full of knowledge beyond this era, but hardware was his shortcoming.
So, he spent money to buy a lot of things back for research.
If you don’t have money, you go earn it yourself.
As a grown man, how could he reach out his hand to ask his parents for money?
Li Zetian had absolutely no thought of calling his parents to ask for money!
The company Li Zetian was going to apply for was called Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
On January 5, 1970, DEC finally launched the PDP-11 computer.
The PDP-11 possessed a series of computing functions, was easy to operate, had a beautiful appearance, and a longer service life than other computers.
It quickly became an example for the minicomputer industry, and at the same time a model for a generation of minicomputer designs.
DEC’s influence began to spread to every corner of the industrial world, all over the globe, and ultimately stood out, breaking through the shroud of the blue giant’s shadow, surpassing all other opponents, and becoming IBM’s number one challenger!
DEC had a branch in Boston, and this company was also one of the companies Bill Gates liked to apply to the most during his college years because they sent helicopters to Boston airport to carry applicants to the company headquarters.
Of course, Li Zetian learned about this matter from reading Bill Gates’ biography in his previous life.
At this moment, Bill Gates was waiting for him at the door, and the two prepared to go apply to this company together.