When Shen Ran was calculating in Kellogg's dim office how many Top 5 articles he was still short of permanent employment for the umpteenth time, Chen Tianyu's APSR went online again. They are a magical couple that is envied by everyone in the academic world. From undergraduate to Ph. D., They collaborated on articles spanning economics and political science, but they tacitly suspended a certain business in their bedroom for four years.
Silently thought the problem was with statistical significance - as long as he posted enough, Chen Tianyu would compromise. But Chen Tianyu's troubles are obviously not in the quantitative model: he is good at correcting other people's values, but he cannot correct his partner's bed curtain preferences.
At the same time, on the west coast, Mu Ren was busy turning the office of the Department of Economics at Northwest University into a center for gossip; Yue Liang was developing new sociology paper titles and dating software profiles in Hong Kong; and far away in Guangzhou, an undergraduate named Jin was working as an RA for Ri Shang.
Until an online meeting, Shen Moran didn't turn on the camera, but found that Jin Ming appeared on Rishang's shared screen. And Rishangzheng enthusiastically recommended Jin Ming to study for a Ph. D. At Momoran.
This is a story about academics and ambition, habits and love. They were all running wildly on their own tracks, thinking they had the optimal solution, but they didn't know who was holding the "working paper" that the other was most afraid of making public.
Intention: There is no optimal solution to life. Only by stepping out of the barriers of rational calculation can we solve the "endogenous dilemma" of fame, fortune and emotion with sincerity and responsibility.
