Your Distance

“Professor, this is an anonymous evaluation.” Ting Shuang couldn’t hold back any longer, finally deciding to overthrow Bai Changyi’s tyranny, “Go away, I’ll fill it out myself.”

Bai Changyi nodded and very graciously walked out of the study, “I won’t disturb you.”

Ting Shuang’s ears pricked up, confirming that Bai Changyi had indeed left before he dared to fill out the questionnaire.

Question 1: For this course, do you usually read up before class?

Never.

Question 2: For this course, do you usually revise after class?

… Occasionally.

…

At the speed of light, Ting Shuang answered a bunch of killer questions, and when doing the subjective questions, praised Bai Changyi to the ends of the earth. Just as he was about to submit the evaluation, he suddenly felt condemnation from his conscience.

Actually, since Bai Laoban wasn’t here now, how about…

Changing the answers to the two questions he had sold out his conscience to answer?

Love was precious, but now that love himself had left, he could answer with righteousness.

Anyway, Bai Laoban was a tenured professor, and would not be affected by the evaluation given by students.

Anyway, it was an anonymous evaluation. There were more than one hundred students taking Robotik, and his answers would be hidden in the pile of answers. When that happened, Bai Laoban wouldn’t even know if he had changed his answers.

Ears pricked up, student Ting Shuang continued paying attention to his surroundings, at the same time quickly returning to the first part of the questionnaire.

Does the professor expect too much from his students?

No → Yes

How difficult is the course?

Moderate →  Too Difficult

Would you like to submit the evaluation questionnaire?

Yes.

At that moment, Ting Shuang’s heart was at peace.

An anonymous evaluation was anonymous because the professor couldn’t see everyone’s answers.

The evaluation results received by the professors were mainly made up of statistical charts.

For example, for multiple-choice questions on the difficulty of the course, Bai Changyi can only see how many people in the class chose ‘Too Difficult’, how many people chose ‘Relatively Difficult’, how many people chose ‘Moderate’, and so on. Each multiple-choice question had a diagram showing the distribution of the number of people who selected each option.

For the subjective questions at the end of the questionnaire, all the students’ answers to the same question were gathered into an excel sheet. All answers were also anonymous.

Indeed, the results of the student evaluation wouldn’t have any impact on Bai Changyi, but he would take it seriously. And he had a very frivolous habit. After the evaluation results were ready, he would not immediately open the file alone. He would open it in front of all the students during the last fifteen minutes of class and read the results with the students.

The Wednesday two weeks later turned out to be this frivolous day.

After Bai Changyi finished his lecture, he turned on his laptop and connected it to the projector.

“This is the most tense moment of the year for me, nothing else compares.” He smiled at the students below, but everyone could see that he wasn’t the slightest bit nervous.

Ting Shuang, who was sitting in the middle of the first row, was so fascinated by his attitude that all he could focus on was that. When he came back to his senses, he cursed in his heart: he keeps exuding his charm.

We’re still in class, could you pay attention to your influence on the students?

Ting Shuang secretly glared at Bai Changyi.

Bai Changyi‘s gaze, bringing with it a hint of a smile, landed on Ting Shuang’s face for a moment, before he clicked on the evaluation results.

The charts were displayed.

“Not bad.” Bai Changyi raised his eyebrows, his expression showing how he felt flattered and surprised.

In the first chart, regarding whether “the professor integrates the content of the course well into reality”, all 120 students who participated in the evaluation chose: Yes.

Scrolling down, the second and third charts were also overwhelmingly positive.

On to the next one.

Does the professor expect too much from his students?

Among the 120 students participating in the evaluation, 120 chose: Yes.

The number of people who chose “No”: 0.

Bai Changyi’s gaze slowly fell on Ting Shuang.

He remembered Ting Shuang choosing “No” in front of him.

He remembered Ting Shuang saying how love was more important.

Ting Shuang looked at the projector screen in disbelief, almost wanting to commit suicide.

Fuck, was there not a single person in the class who picked “No”?

This was truly the hell of an…

The epitome of ‘not submitting to force’.

It was true that he did not have the power to do anything to 119 of the 120 students, but for the 1 remaining, after he reached home today…

Ting Shuang wanted to die. It would be alright if even just a single person chose “No”!

Bai Changyi’s expression still looked very amiable, “Let’s continue.”

Ting Shuang, who felt like his sex life was in danger, begged silently: For that one question in the later part, please have someone forgo their conscience and choose “Moderate”…

How difficult is the course?

When the title of this chart was displayed, Ting Shuang immediately closed his eyes, not daring to peek at the entire chart.

After doing a little inner preparation, he opened his eyes a little and looked at the first line–

The number of people who chose “Too Difficult”: 78.

He was done for.

That was a lot of people.

How much was 120 minus 78…

42…

Please God, let the number of people in the next line be less than 42…

Ting Shuang looked a line down–

The number of people who chose “Relatively Difficult”: 42.

Giving up, he opened his eyes fully and looked at the whole chart–

The number of people who choose “Moderate”: 0.

The number of people who choose “Relatively Easy”: 0.

The number of people who choose “Too Easy”: 0.