Cong Nianwei was out of breath from laughing. Qin Guan drove away, humming a song.
They had prepared a thesis in advance, so the training was not that interesting for them. They had originally planned on skipping most courses, but in the end they decided to continue.
Only Qin Guan was worried about his application. Cong Nianwei's tutor had applied for public funding on her behalf. Unless something terrible happened, she would be a postgraduate student at the Department of Civil Engineering at Columbia University.
Qin Guan had to try harder in his courses, as he didn’t want to study at some community college in New York.
On September 11th, 2001, they entered the classroom, expecting to have fun. The course that day was "comprehensive question-spotting cram school before the exams", which sounded necessary and really interesting.