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Chapter 40: Get what you want

On the way back, the mother and son were speechless.

When Nina thought of another child about to leave her, she felt empty.

Whether it is Colin or Evan, one by one, it doesn't make people worry.

Back home, Virginia brought a bunch of SAT-related information and threw it on Evan's desk.

Evan said thank you.

Virginia accepted it calmly. She sat beside Evan's bed and asked, "California Polytechnic can accept your situation?"

Evan smiled and said, "No problem, don't you believe my abilities?"

"Big...I'll ask Earl to write me a letter of recommendation!"

"Ha! Just brag, just this sudden attack you made today. Can you please write it for you?"

"Go and go, just talk sarcasticly, I'm going to sleep."

"Bang!"

Virginia was pushed out of the door and the door suddenly closed.

"Oh!" Virginia suddenly sighed, should we tell Linda about this?

Evan retreated into the bed, and before turning off the lights, he took the desk calendar from the head of the bed.

"February 2nd..." Evan touched the numbers on the desk calendar and said to himself in a somewhat unfamiliar Chinese: "It's a pity that I can't celebrate the Spring Festival..."

He covered the desk calendar on his chest, looked at the ceiling, and murmured to himself: "California Polytechnic, Los Angeles, wait, I'm here..."

California Institute of Technology is the top tech university in the United States. It has produced many Nobel Prize winners. Its strength is no less than Stanford and MIT that Evan originally wanted to go to the most.

The reason why Evan did not list him as his first choice is because he grew up in the Internet era and had a special affection for those two universities. Not to mention Stanford University, as a talent center in Silicon Valley, HP, Cisco, Silicon Picture, SUN, Yahoo, Google, and other high-tech companies are closely related to it. MIT has also contributed a lot to the Internet and the digital era, and GNU, the World Wide Web Standard Alliance, etc. were all established on its campus.

Evan changed his mind and chose to join California Polytechnic, not entirely because he didn't want to separate from Audrey.

It was the newspaper that reminded him.

The world's first general electronic computer, ENIAC, was born at the University of Pennsylvania. The next thing to be born will be transistor computers. In the last life, Shockley, who invented transistors, received a bachelor's degree in science from California Polytechnic. In addition, Gordon Moore, the founder of INTEL, also came from California Polytechnic.

Of course, for the Chinese, the most famous person in California Polytechnic is Mr. Qian Xuesen, the "two bombs and one satellite hero" with "five divisions in combat effectiveness".

If you go to California Polytechnic, you will have the opportunity to add a chance to the invention of transistors, and you may be able to meet Mr. Qian!

A smile appeared on the corner of Evan's mouth, who had fallen asleep unconsciously.

The next day, on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, Evan called Audrey out and finalized the details behind them together.

In the days that followed, Audrey became busy. The requirements for the High School of Handicraft Arts in Los Angeles were not low. In order to increase the success rate, Audrey increased her practice.

Evan is also actively preparing application materials and reviewing for the exam. Although he feels that the SAT exam is not difficult, he will not relax easily to be on the safe side.

Time flies by.

Robert's voice change period finally passed. When he found that his voice was no longer harsh and harsh, he excitedly read the dramatic lines in front of his family for an hour.

On February 14, the University of Pennsylvania showed the finished products of ENIAC in public. The computer was completed by four scientists, covering an area of ​​170 square meters, weighing 30 tons, and a power of 150KW. The programmers who programmed this computer were six women. Unfortunately, they didn't remember much of their contributions, but were once despised as "refrigerator ladies."

Evan saw this news in the newspaper the next day and solemnly cut it down as a souvenir.

The news reports collected by Evan also include headlines on March 5 and August 15 last year and September 2 last year.

On March 9, Evan and Virginia both went to the SAT exam room set up in San Francisco to take the exam. Audrey also followed him, waiting outside the exam room like a college entrance examination parent.

When he came out of the examination room, Evan looked relaxed, but Virginia was uneasy.

On the way home, Evan was wise to not mess with Virginia, and asked Audrey to talk to her and divert her attention.

While waiting for his achievements, Evan turned his attention back to his career.

After more than a month of hard work, Carl finally opened up all the joints and obtained the factory's start-up permit.

Magic7's factory is built in Northern Sacramento, which is a large area of ​​100,000 square meters, which is even a bit too much for the production of Rubik's Cubes. Therefore, the area that is really used is only part of it.

According to the scheduled construction period, the factory will be completed in about two months. This type of factory building is simple to construct, so it can be so fast.

If it is put into the hands of the "infrastructure maniac", the construction period will probably be shorter.

Evan was not dissatisfied with this. He just hoped that the factory could be built smoothly and not be affected by the strike wave.

By the end of March, the strike that lasted nearly four months finally ended, and GM and GE workers got what they wanted and their wages rose a lot. However, President Truman had just had a few days off, and in April, hundreds of thousands of railway workers announced that they would strike within 30 days. If this happens, the entire American transportation network will be paralyzed. For this, President Truman was furious.

This incident made Evan a little laugh. You should know that the union and the Democratic Party were intimate in cooperation, but now it has made Truman unable to come to Taiwan. It is really unpredictable.

Evan felt that Republicans must have laughed more happily.

The day the railway workers threatened to strike, Sacramento High School was on holiday, and Evan's second semester ended.

A week later, the third semester will begin. The 21st in the middle is Easter.

Before the holiday, the SAT scores of the siblings came out. Needless to say, Evan almost scored perfectly. Virginia's grades were also good, and the math part improved a lot. Finally, her previous efforts were not in vain.

After getting the results, the siblings immediately seized the time to send out the application materials. Because their younger brother was going to California Polytechnic, Virginia did not want to run far, so she set her main goal for the application as the Department of Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Not long after the new semester started, Audrey received an interview notice from the Handicraft Arts High School. On the day of the interview, Joseph took a special leave to accompany Audrey to Los Angeles. Evan originally wanted to be together, but Joseph said he would not let him go. Two men, one big and one small, glared at me and I, and refused to let each other go. Audrey had no choice but to persuade Evan to stay.

The waiting time is the hardest.

In mid-May, the three of them finally got the admission letters. Evan's OFFER was the last one. On the day he sent it, Evan suddenly received a call from Linda, and what he said made him feel puzzled.
Chapter completed!
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