Chapter 105 - 105: Exam

On Monday, Acheson announced that there would be a midterm exam on Thursday and Friday.

Once the class was over, Acheson asked Sophia to her office, informed her of the second Mathematical Olympiad try this Friday, and asked her to have a good preparation.

In that way, she would be unable to take some of the subjects in the midterm, which meant that she would lose another chance to gain points for her class.

Kevin came to Acheson to ask for leave, indicating that he had to attend a hearing the next day. Earlier, Linda sued Kevin and demanded a redistribution of Sophia's legacy. The court was convening the next day.

Sophia was not worried about it. There was no chance of losing the case with lawyer Williams and her will there.

She just told Kevin not to be nervous, to calm down, and to do what lawyer Williams told him to do.

On Tuesday, Kevin was absent until the end of the afternoon. He came to Sophia before she asked him about the result, looking a little tangled.

"What's wrong?" asked Sophia.

"Linda lost the case."

"Well…" Sophia had expected that, "Then why aren't you happy?"

"I..." Kevin hesitated before saying, "There's something I want to tell my sister. Lawyer Williams was going to help me sue Linda to get the house back and accuse her of abandonment and put her in jail. The other day, I saw Adam wearing old clothes and worn shoes, and I suddenly felt that... It's not easy for her to bring up Adam by herself. Adam is never good to me, but he is still my brother, and we have the same father. So... I dropped the charges."

Sophia wasn't surprised about that. Kevin was so kind that it was normal for him to do that. Anyway, the house Linda lived in was not worth much, and they could give it up. As long as Linda repented and stopped making trouble, Sophia didn't bother to deal with her.

Thinking of the last time she saw Linda, it seemed that she was about to marry another man. That was not a bad thing. If she could find a man who was good to her, at least she would not think about getting Kevin in trouble anymore.

***

On Friday, Sophia came to Glinton University again to take part in the second round of Mathematical Olympiad competition.

Before she came, Director Bull especially gave her another set of stationery and smiley told her not to be nervous during the exam, to work hard, to win honor for the school.

"By the way, our school has signed up for an official microblog, and I'm going to have several good students sign up to promote the image of our school," Director Bull said. "Can I sign up a real-name account for you later?"

Sophia had an account named" Knowing A Person" before, but it wasn't a real-name account. She didn't want others to know who she was.

As for the school's publicity account... They would just use her name. Anyway, others would know her if she won the Olympic Games.

"Okay. But… Don't upload my picture or anything. I'm not used to it." said Sophia.

"Don't worry!" said Director Bull with a smile. "Try your best! Come on!"

Sophia didn't take the blog seriously. She found her examination room according to the information on her admission ticket and sat in her seat, waiting for the exam to start.

Soon, the invigilators walked into the examination room. One of them was a teacher at Glinton University that Sophia had met, whose name she didn't know, and the other she hadn't.

After spending so many years in Glinton University, she knew most of the teachers and professors. Although she had never dealt with some of them, she had a good memory and could remember the person as long as she had seen him or her.

The bell rang, and the invigilators handed out the test paper.

When Sophia got the exam paper, she used to look it over. It was more difficult than the one of the first exam, and there were basically no easy questions. Judging from the style of the last two questions, they were obviously from Professor Wilson. He must be getting better and had the strength to set the questions.

She picked up her pen and began to work.

As there was nothing else to do, Sophia worked slowly. She did not hand in the test paper until the bell rang at the end of the exam.

When Sophia left the examination room, she suddenly heard someone calling her.

Looking back, she saw Wilson smiling at her.

"Professor Wilson, you're out of the hospital so soon!" Sophia greeted him with a smile and gave him a hand.

Wilson smiled and said, "The doctor didn't let me leave the hospital, but I didn't want to stay in the hospital, I wanted to go back to school. I can recuperate in our school hospital, and the conditions there are not bad. I wanted to invigilate, but the principal didn't agree, and I couldn't help it."

Wilson was a workaholic. She had learned that long before. But obviously, she still underestimated him.

Afraid that Wilson was tired, she hurriedly helped him to sit in the classroom.

"Any plans for the future?" Wilson asked. "Are you interested in majoring in math in college? If you get the first place in this Mathematical Olympiad exam, I can guarantee that you will be admitted to Glinton University in advance."

Sophia smiled. "I don't like math very much. Relatively speaking, I prefer chemistry."

Wilson stared at her, "You… don't you like math? You're so good at math, and you tell me you don't like math? You studied liberal arts, didn't you? Do you love chemistry? Are you kidding me?"

Sophia couldn't explain that it wasn't her choice, the liberal arts. She thought about it and came up with an excuse. "I didn't think the chemistry was so interesting before, so I chose liberal arts. Only later did I realize that chemistry was fun."

"You can't get into the chemistry department for you are a liberal arts student. Our chemistry department only recruits science students," said Wilson.

Sophia hadn't thought about this before. She came to realize that as a liberal arts student, she couldn't get into the chemistry department and continue the research she loved. But if transferring to a science class, she would be reluctant to say goodbye to her present teachers and classmates.

She slightly frowned. Suddenly, something occurred to her, "Can the chemistry department take students in advance? When does the Chemistry Olympiad start?"

Professor was surprised.

Was this girl out of her mind? She was good at math, but as for chemistry... A liberal arts student wanted to attend the Chemistry Olympiad competition. Really?

Was she trying to piss off all the science students?

Finally, Wilson unhappily told Sophia that the chemistry department did have an advance enrollment quota. The first round of the Chemistry Olympics competition was about half a month later.

Sophia was very happy, "Thank you, Professor Wilson."

Wilson used to have a good opinion of Sophia. But after the conversation, he considered her an arrogant kid. With some talent, she just thought she could do anything? In his life, he had only met one person who had made great achievements in both mathematics and chemistry.

That girl is also named Sophia. Young as she was, she was the one he admired most, but much more modest. Even the god was jealous of her talent and took her life at such a young age…

Were kids named Sophia all very smart? His daughter happened to marry a Green. Should he advise her to name her daughter Sophia Green if she had one?

Sophia helped Wilson back to the school hospital and asked him to have a good rest before leaving Glinton University.