The Years I Mentored a Future Academician

You're a complete novice in scientific research, and your lifelong dream is to become the Nobel laureate's star student and the little boss of the lab. Given the Nobel Prize nomination rules, you first need to boost your advisor's reputation.

1. Publish an SCI paper [Reputation +20]

2. Publish an SCI paper in a top-quartile journal [Reputation +80]

3. Publish in Nature [Reputation +300]

4. Attend a scientific forum [Your advisor is socially anxious and shakes while flipping through slides, Reputation -50]

5. Recruit a postdoc for the lab [Reputation +60]

6. Excel in administrative work [Your advisor cares more about wealth than research, Wealth +500, Reputation -200]

7. Win a grant [Your advisor looks like they're scamming for money, Wealth +5000, Reputation +2000, Peer Reputation -1000]

8. Help your advisor become an academician [Reputation +12000]

Plan your advisor's time wisely, push them to become an academician, and help them advance to the next level. You'll be the next Nobel laureate's star student!

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Hint:

1. This novel sets aside the complications of the advisor not wanting to become an academician or compete for the Nobel Prize.

2. Data and cited references used in this novel will be acknowledged in the author's column.

3. The author has not won a Nobel Prize yet. Interested colleagues, please leave your contact information and become my star student.

Theme: Science is the light of humanity.