<b>Chapter </b><b>250 </b>
<b>Jameson </b><b>watched </b>as all the professors immediately epted Shermaine’s invitation and walked off <b>with </b><b>her</b>. His expression <b>grew </bplicated fe <b>curiosity </b>started eating at him: ‘Why are these professors so enthusiastic and respectful when they talk to Shermaine<b>?</b>‘ he <b>wondered</b>.
<b>‘</b>What’s so special about Shermaine that deserves respect<b>?</b>‘ Jameson thought. ‘Did she actually do something that impressive?
Jason had been busting his ass trying to improve himself, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t seem to get ahead of Shermaine. It was driving <b>him </b>
crazy.
While he was lost in thought, Natalie noticed his expression and quickly] jumped in to distract him. “Jarnie, we should grab lunch too. <b>Jason </b>said he <b>was </b>hungry earlier, so let’s get going.”
Her interruption worked. Jameson was still curious, but he didn’t dig any deeper into it.
Since Sermaine was with a group of professors, the cafeteria was obvious
campus instead.
the question. They ended up eating at a private restaurant near <b>the </b>
seems like overkill,” Yoel from the chemistry department said<b>. </b><b>“</b><b>Honestly</b><b>, </b>we
“Shermaine, with your abilities,ing to Basterel University for undergrad don’t have much to teach you. If anything, you should be teaching our students.”
He couldn’t help but think, ‘I mean<b>, </b>why would someone at her level need us to teach her anything?<b>” </b>
“Yeah, I wish you could just graduate right now ande do research with us,<b>” </b>another professor chimed in.
“Our physicsb at Basterel University is always open for you to visit whenever you want.”
“Hey, back off! Shermaine’s in our chemistry department. Quit trying to steal her from
<b><i>us</i></b>”
Shermaine gave them a modest exnation. “I just want to get a domestic master’s degree certificate, that’s all.”
The way she said it made it sound like she’d already been to college before and probably already had a master’s degree–maybe even more than that. The chemistry professor kept going. “That’s easy enough. You can work with me on the lithium battery project, and once we get some research results, I can apply for your master’s degree with the school right away.”
Hell, he’d apply for a doctorate too if needed. Then, he added, “Speaking of which, <i>this </i>is actually a project your
fiancé is funding.”
Joshua stayed quiet, keeping his expression neutral. He had so many investment projects going at Basterel University that it was hard to keep track. Lithium batteries were definitely one of them.
The thing was<b>, </b>they’d been working on this battery project sincest year, and they still hadn’t solved some major technical issues.
Yoel was really stressing out about it. The funding had gone out, but they weren’t seeing any results yet, and he felt like he was letting Joshua down big
time.
Joshua wasn’t sweating <b>it </b>though. He was happy to keep funding the research since money wasn’t exactly tight for him.
Shermaine didn’t want to waste too much time on just getting a master’s degree, but since she was already at Basterel University <b>and </b><b>all </b><b>these </b><b>pr </b>wanted her help, she figured she might as well stick around for a while.
<b>ors </b>
She thought it over for a second. “I’ll consider the lithium battery project,” she smiled slightly. “<b>If </b>any of the other professors have <b>problems </b><b>they </b><b>need </b>help with, they can reach out to me too. I’ll be hanging around Basterel University for a while.”
Yoel let out a sigh of relief, “Great, let’s exchange numbers so we can stay in touch.”
“Sounds good.”
<b>Just </b>like that<b>, </b><b>Shermaine </b>& <b>phone </b>filled <b>up </b><b>with </b><b>professor </b><b>numbers </b>and <b>social </b><b>media</b><b>, </b><b>and </b>their Instagram fends wen fall seateretie st
papers.
<b>After </b><b>lunch</b><b>, </b><b>the </b><b>professors </b>started heading out one by one.
Next up was two weeks of orientation. The upperssmen from Basterel University Department <b>of </b>Defense would <b>be </b>putting all the freshmen through
their <b>paces</b>.
When Shermaine showed up, she realized she’d forgotten to pack some essentials–sunscreen, toiletries<b>, </b>stuff like that. She’d have to buy everything <b>new</b>. So after lunch, she and Joshua headed to the supermarket to stock up.
<b>What </b>Shermaine didn’t know was that she’d caused another huge stir on the Basterel University forums that day. Students were <b>going </b><b>crazy </b><b>talking </b>about her all over again.
Shermaine already had some name recognition at Basterel. She could thank Wendelyn for that mess.
The people who’d originally sided with Wendelyn knew Shermaine wasn’t actually the awful country bumpkin everyone made her out <b>to be</b><b>, </b>and she definitely wasn’t some bully who threw her weight around.
But none of them had any clue that Shermaine was this year’s top scorer in sciences, with grades so incredible that professors were literally <b>fighting </b><b>over </b>her on day one.
Then, someone who knew the real story spilled the tea. It turned out Shermaine was the mystery genius who showed up <b>at </b>this year’s International Technology Conference. Her SAT scores were nothingpared to what she pulled off there.
Shermaine absolutely killed it in every field imaginable and made everyone from the Republic of Wallington’s tech scene look amazing<b>. </b><b>It </b><b>wasn’t </b><b>just </b>domestic professors trying to recruit her, universities abroad were going nuts over her too.
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