Sophia completed her enrollment procedures, paid her fees, and went to her dorm.
This year was mostly about internships, so local students didn’t have to stay on campus. Since Sophia had often stayed with the Scott family, she rarely spent time in the dorm and didn’t actually need to use it.
However, her original self hadn’t canceled the dorm accommodation, so Sophia kept it just in case. After all, she might leave the Scott family at any time. The mountain area she planned to go to didn’t have electricity, making it inconvenient to stay there. In case of an emergency, she could come back to the dorm, so she moved some books in.
“Sophia?”
As soon as she entered the dorm, a cute girl with bangs bounced over, smiling, “Sophia, you’re here? It’s a rare sight!”
Sophia smiled. In her memory, the original Sophia had a decent relationship with her roommates, perhaps because she rarely stayed in the dorm, so there was little conflict.
“I’m here to check in. Tomorrow we’re starting our hospital internship, right?”
“Yep! You’d better work hard!” Class genius Barbara approached, looking distressed, “In our Room 201, everyone is a top student, except you…”
“Yeah, Sophia, you didn’t do too well on last semester’s finals, did you? Did you fail any courses?”
Sophia looked momentarily confused, having no memory of this.
“Hey, don’t let it come to a retake! We told you to focus more on your studies, but you wouldn’t listen, always chasing after that man from your family! Keep this up, and you’ll get dumped sooner or later!”
Everyone knew Sophia was married, but they didn’t know her relationship with Henry was strained, so they joked about it without realizing how true their words were.
“Sophia, you’d better take this internship seriously. Professor Michael put you in our group—don’t you know what that means?”
“What does it mean?” Anna, a girl with short hair, blinked, twisting her dyed purple locks around her finger. “You think you can interpret royal decrees?”
“Hey!” Barbara rolled her eyes, speaking from her position as a top student and looking down on the others, “It’s everyone’s responsibility to care for struggling students, got it?”
“That’s true! Without us supporting her, Sophia would be done for!”
“Likely unable to become a mentor, let alone work in a good hospital.”
“And with only a bachelor’s degree, if her academics and clinical skills are poor, then honestly…”
Each roommate chimed in, showing their deep concern for Sophia, the underperformer in their group.
Sophia raised an eyebrow, absorbing the fact that her original self was indeed a poor student.
She hadn’t expected that, after excelling academically her entire life and always helping struggling students, she would one day become the one in need of help.
The wheel of fortune had turned!
Sophia smiled and started organizing her desk. The others, having finished their own unpacking, helped her out. In less than ten minutes, the desk was neatly arranged.
In her past life, something like this had never happened.
The care of top students – a special treatment for a struggling student!
Sophia chuckled, “Thank you! Let me treat you all to lunch in the cafeteria!”
“Yay!” Everyone cheered.
She got along well with her roommates and pieced together their names and backgrounds from their conversation. Apart from herself, Barbara was undoubtedly the top student of the group. With her abilities, she could have continued her studies, but her family had connections in a local hospital. Her parents thought it would be harder for her to find a match if she pursued further studies, so they wanted her to work at the hospital after her internship while gradually working on her master’s and doctorate degrees.
Anna was outgoing and had short hair.
Jennifer had a cute look with her bun hairstyle, not quite resembling a medical student.
Scarlett and Isabella were locals and had even gone to the same kindergarten.
Their personalities were all agreeable, possibly due to their shared dedication to medicine, leaving little time for dorm drama. As a result, they hadn’t quarreled once in four years.
During lunch, Barbara led the group of top students in a lecture on “caring for struggling students,” which nearly made Sophia beg for mercy.
She almost knelt in surrender!
Suddenly, Jennifer sneezed, and Barbara instinctively took her pulse, examining it for a moment before asking:
“Are you feeling sore all over?”
“Yes, yes!”
“Fever and shortness of breath?”
“Yes!”
“Open your mouth!” Barbara looked at her tongue coating and shrugged. “Get some Ma huang Decoction from the pharmacy! It’s a dollar fifty per dose! You should feel better after taking it!”
“Okay, top student!” Jennifer replied with a smile.
Sophia watched them and couldn’t help but smile. This was the daily life of traditional medicine students—they could all diagnose themselves!
After that, Sophia was about to head to the classroom when Professor Michael caught her and called her into his office, remaining silent for a long time.
Just when Sophia thought he wasn’t going to say anything, he let out a long sigh.
“…” Sophia was baffled.
What was going on? Why was everyone at school sighing at her?
Professor Michael sighed again, adjusted his glasses, and looked at her helplessly.
“No need for me to say anything, right? You know what you need to do, don’t you? Sophia! Look at yourself—do you think you’ve lived up to your father and grandfather?”
“…?” Did she really do that much wrong?
Professor Michael continued to criticize, “From the time you enrolled, I’ve been telling you to study diligently! But you? Always failing courses. I didn’t bring it up last semester—look at your grades!”
Sophia glanced at her grades nervously; they were indeed embarrassingly low.
But she could understand her original self. The original Sophia hadn’t been interested in medicine and couldn’t even recite ‘’Herbology Basics’’fluently. Taking exams? The test questions were all multiple-choice from a question bank! The exams were held, and the grades were released right after. If it had been essay questions, she might have managed, but multiple-choice questions required real knowledge. No wonder she didn’t do well in computerized exams.
Sophia glanced at Professor Micheal. He looked genuinely concerned for his students.
From her memories, Sophia knew that Professor Micheal had a connection with the Smith family.
Old Mr. Smith was a well-known traditional medicine practitioner. Though he lived in the mountains and didn’t have the same fame as the hospital directors, he was a highly skilled doctor with unique family teachings that were unheard of by others. In his youth, Prof. Micheal had studied acupuncture with the old man for a while before moving on to other teachers.
Though he only studied with him for a few months, Prof. Micheal greatly respected Old Mr. Smith. When he saw Sophia’s name during enrollment, he had asked about her background.
