Gu Kun felt that he couldn't keep up with the professional courses, which started about the third week after class.
The main reason is that in the first two weeks of professional courses, the main content taught is general outlines, and there are relatively few parts that require quantitative calculations.
Although Gu Kun did not go to college in his previous life, he had more than ten years of maritime experience and had been dealing with ships all his life. Therefore, he learned quickly those things that did not require a thorough explanation. For things that were a little obscure, he could go home and read by himself or find a teacher.
Questions and answers can basically be solved.
In general, among the professional courses he took in his sophomore year, entry-level ones such as "Electrical Technology", "Basics of Electrical Experiments" and "Mechanical Drawing" were very easy for him.
In the other two subjects "Material Mechanics" and "Structural Mechanics", he had no problem understanding each concept. But as he entered the quantitative calculation stage, his shortcomings were exposed because he had not systematically studied them.
High numbers and big things.
"It's better to pay the teacher privately and make up lessons alone. In my previous life, I watched the movie "Partners in China" and in 1994 I hired the teacher as a tutor. It shouldn't be considered a violation of school discipline."
After making up his mind, on the last day of class before the National Day, Gu Kun took advantage of the opportunity for everyone to pack up and leave after class. He followed the lecturer who taught two mechanics courses and called out to him in the corridor:
"Teacher Zhu, I have some trouble and I want to ask you for advice."
The lecturer's name is Zhu Mingbo, a middle-aged man about 30 years old, who has just graduated with a Ph.D. and has only stayed in school for two years.
Professor Zhu stared at Gu Kun for a while: "Oh, you are the new international student who joined the class, right? What's wrong? Just say it."
It is normal for teachers in universities to not fully recognize students who have just been in class for a few weeks.
"I don't understand the stress calculations you talked about today at all. Maybe it's because my foundation in advanced mathematics is so poor that I can't even do simple integrals. Could you please give me a private lesson during your break..."
As soon as Gu Kun said this, Zhu Mingbo's expression changed.
This is too difficult for people. The work of a university lecturer is already so heavy, and they usually have to write their own papers to fight for professional titles.
"That's easy to say. If everyone asked for it, haha..." Zhu Mingbo complained crazily in his heart.
Fortunately, he was more polite and was thinking about how to politely refuse, so he gave Gu Kun a chance to make conditions:
"Mr. Zhu, I know...it's too tacky to talk about money, but the situation is like this. I am the boss of a maritime company. I came here to study because I want to learn some real skills in identifying the quality of ship design and cost.
So if you teach me, it will create great economic benefits for me. So as long as you are willing to make up the lessons, I think I will give you at least 50 yuan per class as a hard-earned fee, and you can treat it as consulting for my maritime company.
Well, what do you think?"
Zhu Mingbo almost spit out a mouthful of tea.
In 1994, the salary level within the system was not high. In places like Donghai Province, lecturers were still getting a salary of 400 to 500 yuan. Hujiang is considered the city with the best salary in China, and Jiaotong University is a high-end school. Zhu Mingbo is a new
A lecturer's salary is only 700 to 800 yuan a month, and extra bonuses are not included.
If you are rated as associate professor or professor, it is possible to reach 1,000.
Fifty yuan a class is definitely a reasonable price. If he takes time to make up one class every afternoon after get off work, the tuition fee in one month will be twice as much as his salary.
"It turns out that you opened a maritime company in Lanfang Country. It's rare that you admire the level of Chinese education and come all the way to learn real skills from us. It's really commendable.
We Chinese people have always been friendly to foreign countries, especially to friendly neighbors who share the same culture and race. We should be eager to help, so I will make an exception and give you private tutoring. Money doesn't matter."
Doesn't a gentleman talk about justice but not profit? How vulgar is it for senior intellectuals to talk about money?
Of course Gu Kun knew what to do. For things like money, just take it and don't talk about it.
However, Gu Kun's money is not that easy to earn, and he has other requirements.
Gu Kun shrewdly suggested: "Teacher Zhu, this is what I plan to do. I wonder if you can teach advanced mathematics at the same time? That is, materials mechanics and structural mechanics. When it comes to parts that require calculations and advanced mathematics knowledge, directly
Start with the most basic mathematical knowledge and teach it consistently from beginning to end.
It doesn’t matter if you’re not good at it. I’ll find an advanced math teacher to work with you, and you’ll teach me one-on-one. When you need to use math knowledge, just take a break and I’ll ask the math teacher for advice first.”
Zhu Mingbo quickly expressed his position: "It's a waste of manpower to teach two people. I can teach you. As for advanced mathematics, I have never taught it, but one-on-one is definitely no problem. If you don't understand, just ask anytime."
Generally speaking, most people who are good at learning may not be able to teach well because they do not understand the students' understanding ability and progress.
"Whether one can quickly and efficiently know the mastery level of one's students" is the main indicator for judging good and bad teachers in the traditional teaching model. As for the knowledge points, the teacher himself can definitely understand them all.
But if it is one-on-one teaching, if you don't understand something immediately and ask questions immediately, the teacher's ability to master the student's level will be greatly reduced. Basically, as long as the teacher knows it well and has the teaching foundation of other classes, he can teach it.
In math classes, the reason why it’s easy to get stuck in big lectures, and you can’t keep up if you’re out of touch, is because the teacher doesn’t know when a student is distracted and falls behind. Or even if the teacher knows, he can’t stop for you alone.
schedule.
Therefore, as long as Zhu Mingbo agreed, Gu Kun would dare to trust him.
"Then don't worry about it. When the lecture is halfway through, if you encounter some areas where you need to use the basic knowledge of advanced mathematics and big objects, please explain it from the beginning. We will give you one hundred yuan for each two classes.
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"Oh! Don't mention money anymore!"
"If you want it, I'll make up for it 30 times first, as a thank you." Without saying anything, Gu Kun stuffed a small red envelope of three thousand yuan directly into Zhu Mingbo's pocket.
Zhu Mingbo clutched his pocket and was lost for a few seconds: "Then... are you free during the National Day? I think your foundation is weak and you should seize the opportunity to focus on the attack during the holiday."
Gu Kun happily agreed.
During the next few days of long vacation, he lived completely like an ascetic, focusing on making up classes every day.
For advanced mathematics and big objects, he never intended to study them thoroughly and systematically. He only needed to learn the parts that would be used in professional courses in his major.
Compared with the confused state of most people who "learn but don't know how to use it", Gu Kun can be said to be rushing to solve specific problems in every class, so the efficiency gap is naturally very huge.
The biggest laziness of people in learning is that they don’t know what to do with what they have learned before “learning”. Most people with work experience will have the same feeling. When you are forced to learn by a task, as long as the teacher
He is knowledgeable enough and his efficiency is much higher than in school.
Zhu Mingbo would take a small notebook where he signed in and kept accounts every day in class. He wished he could cross out 10 class hours a day and earn an extra 500 yuan.
Under such high pressure, Gu Kun made rapid progress. The only drawback is that this learning mode is really tiring, because you have no chance to distract yourself.
Sitting in a large class classroom, even if you sleep for two hours, the teacher may not know, or if he knows, he will not care about you.
But in a one-to-one tutoring class, Gu Kun only had to be distracted for half of the explanation time, and Zhu Mingbo immediately discovered that he was confused.
"This life is really not a life for human beings... However, in order to understand the structural stress calculation table, and in order to understand the design budget, I endured it..." More than once, when he was exhausted mentally and physically, Gu Kun thought in his heart