Chapter 98
[Seoul National University Everytime]
[Title: Review of Professor Yoo A-yeon's First Functional Analysis Class]
She came into the classroom holding her mom's hand (but her mom is also a student)
During orientation, she told us how far we'd be going.
When explaining Hilbert spaces, operators, and spectral theory, she told stories about how she used this stuff when proving the Riemann Hypothesis~.
She's insanely cute when telling stories or bragging about herself.
But the pace is insanely fast and insanely difficult.
I kept running into things I didn't know, and when she said, “I'll assume you all know this, so let's move on~,” I almost cried.
- Graduate students are cryiiing ㅠㅠ
- Buddy… do you still think graduate students are human?
- Why is Mom a student lol
[Title: A-yeon Climbing onto the Footstool Was So Cute]
The blackboard was too high,
so she brought over a footstool,
“Heave-ho-”
and climbed up while saying that.
Then she stood on tiptoe and wrote on the board.
It was ridiculously cute.
But what she wrote on the blackboard was alien language.
The moment you dare try to understand it, your brain breaks.
- This isn't AI-generated?
- Should I grab it during the add/drop period too…
-ㄴ Please do, I don't want to be the only one failing this class
[Title: I'm Just Going to Class to See the Cute Little Animal]
The content? Don't know.
The notes? Don't know.
The grade? Well, if I fail, so be it lol
I just think of it as paying to watch Yoo A-yeon, the idol of Korean academia, go “Heheheh” up close.
- I felt better after adopting this mindset too
-ㄴ The GOAT of healing lectures
- Wake up! Your grade is what's going to fail!!!
[Title: What Professor Yoo A-yeon's Q&A Sessions Are Like]
Student: “…”
Professor: “Don't feel pressured! You can ask me anything!”
Student: (Doesn't even know what to ask)
I'm sorry, Professor… I want to ask questions so badly, but I don't understand a single thing you're saying…
- You need to understand something before you can ask a question, for real
- I only know that the professor is cute
[Title: With It This Hot, I Should Add Yoo A-yeon's Class During the Add/Drop Period Too]
I'm a humanities student,
but I'm adding Calculus so I can nom-nom Professor Yoo A-yeon's adorable cheeks.
I'll be your GPA floor, so be grateful.
- Thanks…
- Look here. The humanities in Korea aren't dead yet.
- Are you the future of the nation?
- We will never forget the sacrifice of the patriot
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The Departmental Mathematics Gallery mostly talks about math.
But if there's news about Yoo A-yeon, it's also basically a Yoo A-yeon fan gallery, since it's the first place in Korea to spread it.
Among those posts, reviews from SNU Department of Mathematical Sciences students who took Yoo A-yeon's class themselves drew intense interest.
[Departmental Mathematics Gallery]
[Title: Upvote This If You Suddenly Regret Signing Up for the Gallery Queen's Class lol]
Starting with me lol
- Take my upvote lol
- Fuck…
- It's only week one; can I survive…
-ㄴ Looks like a hard drop coming
[Title: Gallery Queen, That's Too Big to Fit…]
That thing is way too big to fit in my brain!!! Aaaagh!!!
- How far did she get for you to say that?
-ㄴ The moment she entered normed spaces, she explained Banach spaces, Sobolev spaces, ℓᵖ, Lᵖ, C(K), and everything else in one day.
-ㄴ The difficulty is completely insane lol
[Title: Why We Mustn't Forget the Gallery Queen Proved the Riemann Hypothesis]
We came to learn Functional Analysis,
but the professor was like, “This is also a perspective that comes in handy for the Riemann Hypothesis…”
and then launched into a live story time.
- Wow, we're getting live anecdotes about the Riemann Hypothesis
-ㄴ Thinking of it that way, I kind of want to keep taking it even if it's hard?
-ㄴ I need to grab it immediately. Well, if my GPA dies, so be it lol
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“Heheheh-.”
I secretly checked the gallery for the first time in a while on the lab computer, and everyone was busy talking about me.
Since it was an academic gallery, a large proportion were graduate students, and those grad-student unnis and oppas had left reviews of the class I'd just taught.
Most of them were along the lines of “Waaah, it's too hard, sob-,” but it seemed some gallery users still remembered what we'd covered, which made me happy.
“I should write a post too!”
[Title: Review of My First Class After Becoming a Professor]
[Author: IQ Genius]
My undergraduate class is Calculus I,
and my graduate class is Functional Analysis.
Those are the two classes I was assigned.
In Calculus, we started with epsilon-delta and got through a few tests for convergence of series,
while in Functional Analysis, we raced through topics covered in normed spaces.
Everyone looked mentally destroyed, but it couldn't be helped.
I'll raise them tough, even if I have to do it through my tears… Sob sob.
Also, I've memorized all the names on the attendance sheet, so I plan to punish anyone caught ditching class.
Oh, right. Getting applause at the end of class felt really good.
- Gasp
- ㄷㄷ Gallery Queen has logged in
- Gasp, it's Yoo A-yeon, the ridiculously cute little girl who proved the Riemann Hypothesis, turned down every offer from American universities, and went to Seoul National University?
“Heheh.”
There was an intense reaction from everyone when I posted again after such a long time.
This is why I hang out in the gallery!
Of course, doing it too often is bad for my brain, so I'll only do it once in a while.
Just then, someone posted a question in the comments on my post.
- Professor, may I ask a question?
-ㄴ (IQ Genius) : Go ahead.
-ㄴ I absolutely don't understand the Calculus assignment, 0.999…=1.
“What… this oppa…”
He's asking through the gallery instead of coming all the way to my lab?
I was starting to feel just a tiny bit disappointed.
-ㄴ (IQ Genius) : ꒰ ⳻ ‸ ⳺ 💢 ꒱
-ㄴ Gasp, I'm sorry.
-ㄴ (IQ Genius) : That's not it—you could've come ask during office hours…
-ㄴ I was worried I'd disturb your research… S-sorry, sorry.
-ㄴ (IQ Genius) : Not at all, and I've even put out Kancho and Pepero as welcome desserts, so come by!
-ㄴ Wow, A-yeon put out Kancho and Pepero and you're still not going? If it were me, I'd visit office hours every single day.
Another gallery oppa replied in agreement.
“Exactly! That's what I'm saying!”
Zoom-zoom-!
I kicked my feet vigorously.
I was sitting on a child-sized chair with my feet planted on the ground, but maybe because of my usual habit, my feet lifted whenever I got excited.
Just then.
Mom stood up from her seat, stretched, and said,
“Hnnngh-! Professor Yoo A-yeon, shall we go eat?”
I checked the clock.
It was lunchtime already.
“Okaaay-!”
Pitter-patter-pitter-patter-.
I held Mom's hand and made my way to the student cafeteria.
Rustle-rustle-.
Then I pulled a neatly wrapped packed lunch from my pink children's bag and happily munched away.
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Wednesday, the second Calculus lecture.
“Huh?”
I opened the classroom door and immediately widened my eyes.
Bustle-bustle~
The number of students had apparently gone over fifty-five!
The classroom was filled to the brim before I knew it.
There had definitely been forty students when I taught on Monday.
What on earth had happened in the two days since?
“Uh… why are there so many more unnis and oppas?”
I hurriedly checked the attendance sheet.
Calculus was a required undergraduate course, so the enrollment limit for the freshmen in our Department of Mathematical Sciences was unchanged.
But instead, students from other departments had swelled in number all at once.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Statistics, College of Economics, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering…
There were even students from the Departments of Philosophy and History!
And among them, I spotted several international unnis and oppas who had come to study abroad.
“Eeeek!”
I cried out in surprise.
Other departments were one thing, but why on earth were humanities students here?!
Why had students from History and Philosophy come to study Calculus?!
“Just a moment before we start class…”
I called over the unnis and oppas who had suddenly increased in number and carefully asked them,
“Unnis and oppas, did you newly register during the add/drop period?”
“Yes!”
“Did you check the conditions for getting credit for it? And this class is taught in Korean—is that all right?”
Chatter-chatter-.
After talking with them, I learned that everyone had looked into it carefully before signing up.
Well, Calculus was a prerequisite course in the natural sciences and engineering, so it made sense that it could count toward their major credits even if it was offered by another department.
“No problem!”
The international student unnis and oppas nodded.
Well, the boardwork was in English anyway, so maybe it didn't matter.
Mathematics is a universal language, after all.
As long as you had a foundation in mathematics, you could take my class without any problems.
But
the humanities students had no such reason; this class would simply be pure suffering for them…
“Oppas from the Departments of Philosophy and History, are you really sure? My class is seriously difficult, you know?”
When I asked worriedly,
an oppa from Philosophy shot to his feet and answered in a booming voice,
“It's no problem! Even if it's difficult, I'll study hard and do my best to win Professor Yoo A-yeon's approval!”
“……!”
It was an unbelievably spirited answer.
His enthusiasm already had me feeling pleased.
They were this proactive!
I might even end up comparing them to the shy freshmen unnis and oppas in our Department of Mathematical Sciences, don't you think?
“Honestly. To think that people from the humanities would come take my class just because I'm popular.”
I gave a modest little shrug.
“Heheh.”
I couldn't possibly hide the corners of my mouth curling upward.
Who knew I was this popular?
Has Yoo A-yeon's charm really crossed over the humanities' walls, or what?
I looked around the classroom and raised my voice.
“Unnis and oppas, you should all follow the example of this oppa from Philosophy!”
I pointed at the Philosophy oppa.
“The essence of philosophy is knowledge! This Philosophy oppa willingly signed up for a difficult class in another department to contemplate knowledge itself! What initiative! I already like this oppa so much!”
I declared, raising my thumb.
“So, especially for you, I'll give you bonus points!”
“Thank you!”
The Philosophy oppa beamed and bowed deeply.
What an excellent proactive attitude!