12 Chapter 12: This News is Simply Godsend_1

In fact.

For students in public or key universities, it's quite normal to feel superior to an obscure private university.

After all, in our country, there's currently no private university that can rival the likes of key universities such as those in the '985/211' plan.

However.

Many students from public universities consider the selection criteria for enrolment at Mist City Arts and Science University, as well as its freedom to choose roommates as nothing more than flashy gimmicks.

They think it's simply a strategy to lure more people to apply for enrolment at Mist City Arts and Science University.

How else can a private university turn a profit, if not by these means?

After returning to his office, Ding Yue came across these online discussions about Mist City Arts and Science University.

Exactly!

We are promoting Mist City Arts and Science University in this way to recruit students and make money.

So what?

However.

This is only one of the reasons.

Beyond wanting to make money and complete his task, Ding Yue also wishes to create a university unlike any other.

This includes tailoring majors according to students' interests, and allowing them to freely choose dorms and roommates.

These are the breakouts made by Ding Yue from the traditional university shackles.

After browsing Twitter for a while, Ding Yue made a phone call to Huang Youjie.

"Hello, Principal Ding, what can I do for you?" asked Huang Youjie.

"Huang, aren't you in charge of our college's enrolment and dormitory logistics? About dormitory allocation, our college's philosophy is to permit students to choose freely. Understand what I mean?"

Ding Yue needed to make this clear to Huang Youjie so that upon facing numerous requests from students to change dormitories in the future, he wouldn't be caught off guard.

"Free choice of dormitory for students?" Huang Youjie seemed not to quite comprehend Ding Yue's intention.

Realizing this, Ding Yue patiently explained, "It means that if students want to share dorms with their good friends or those on friendly terms with them, we do our best to help facilitate this."

"That sounds like a good idea, but Principal Ding, what if there's a boy who wants to roommate with a girl?" Huang Youjie asked, sounding as innocent as a lamb.

"Get lost, of course there will be separate dorms for boys and girls, otherwise, wouldn't it be a mess?" said Ding Yue, feigning anger.

"Hehe, OK, I understand. I guarantee to strictly follow Principal Ding's instructions!"

"Alright, try your best to accommodate the students' housing needs, I have to go now."

After hanging up, Ding Yue saw that official Twitter and TikTok accounts administrated by Mist City Arts and Science University, which he had applied for the night before, had been verified.

Then.

Ding Yue began to campaign on both Twitter and TikTok via the official accounts of Mist City Arts and Science University.

The goal is to "deceive" more College Entrance Examination dropouts to apply.

The promotional copy has long been thought through by Ding Yue.

The selling points would be these three.

The first one being the customization of majors according to students' interests.

The second one being the ability to freely choose roommates after enrolment, although genders are divided.

The last one being that during military training for freshmen, the school will arrange for all-female military training instructors. This is definitely a plus!

Although Ding Yue hasn't received accurate news from Mist City Military Art College regarding the third part.

He added it anyway for promotional purposes.

Shortly after releasing this promotional copy on Twitter and TikTok, Ding Yue received a call from Principal Chen of Mist City Military Art College.

"Hello Principal Chen."

"Xiao Ding, we have held a school committee meeting, Mist City Arts and Science University after all, is a local university of Mist City. If you have a demand for training instructors, then we of course, should offer strong support in response."

"You mean your college has agreed?"

Hearing this, Ding Yue was pleasantly surprised.

"Xiao Ding, how many training instructors do you need? You can come directly to our university to choose the best candidates."

Principal Chen asked courteously.

"Principal Chen, as for the exact number of instructors we need, that's uncertain for now. It all depends on enrolment numbers and class allocation."

"That's alright, it's not a big issue. As for the training fee...."

Finally, Principal Chen had arrived at the critical point.

Why would the Mist City Military Art College agree to let Ding Yue choose female military students from their school to be training instructors?

The One-million-dollar fee obviously plays a key role.

Why not, if it's as simple as dispatching some students to provide military training?

"Principal Chen, rest assured. I'll sign a corresponding cooperation agreement with your college soon to maintain our good relationship in the future."

Ding Yue assured that paying a million dollars in fees was not a problem.

As long as they could get beautiful training instructors, one million would be a worthwhile expenditure for Ding Yue and the Mist City Arts and Science University.

"Alright, Xiao Ding, I look forward to welcoming you to visit Mist City Military Art College once again."

"Sure, Principal Chen, goodbye."

Ding Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief.

With beautiful military training instructors, he believed the training efficiency will be boosted during the military drill and that Mist City Arts and Science University will be a unique sight among national universities during the military training period.

Ding Yue opened the Twitter app again on his phone.

He was curious to see how many comments the netizens had made on his university promotion on Twitter.

However.

Just as Ding Yue logged into Twitter, a trending news story caught his eye.

Trending #1——[Female university student attacks roommates with a knife before graduation!]

Huh?

This news headline successfully caught Ding Yue's attention.

Therefore, Ding Yue immediately clicked to check out the details. It reported that a senior female student from Guangcheng University, due to long-established conflicts with her roommates, attacked her three roommates with a knife before graduation!

Hissh!

This news chilled countless college students to the bone.

In the comment section, many people repeated the phrase "Thanks to my roommate for sparing my life," while others commented on the difficult issue of dorm conflicts and the educational philosophy of free choice of roommates adopted by Mist City Arts and Science University.

Ding Yue found it interesting that among the top comments, there were discussions sparked by Mist City Arts and Science University's choice to let students freely choose their roommates.

Undoubtedly, this brought even more attention to the efforts made by Mist City Arts and Science University in dormitory culture.

Truth be told.

This news event, featuring a female university student attacking her roommates before graduation, served as a free ad for Mist City Arts and Science University's enrolment campaign this time.

Because many netizens in the comments section praised the housing arrangement of Mist City Arts and Science University!

"It seems an incident like this occurs almost every year, like a problem with no solution."

"Yeah, it reminds me of the year when the roommate poisoning incident happened."

"Honestly, it's fine if you have good roommates. If you have annoying ones, prepare to suffer for four years."

"If the conflict is too strong, perhaps even I could take such a crazy action."

"I seriously can't stand my roommates now, but I can't change my dorm. I don't even want to study anymore. I feel like I'm getting depressed (╥﹏╥)o"

"I think the idea of letting students freely choose their roommates at Mist City Arts and Science University is quite good."

"Mist City Arts and Science University seems to be doing quite well in many areas, except for perhaps the teaching quality."

"Why do I keep hearing about Mist City Arts and Science University from netizens recently?"