The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5048

Ves established a good working relationship with Miss Alexa Striker.

Though he only met a few months ago and only ever spoke to her by remote, the teaching assistant assigned by the Eden Institute of Business & Technology never proved to be a hindrance.

In fact, it was the opposite. He could hardly think of a more perfect assistant!

Not only did Alexa prove to be diligent and knowledgeable in her work, she also supported Ves in a sincere and unprejudiced manner.

Ves expected that he would have to work hard to earn the approval of the Terrans and overcome their ingrained bias against a mere second-rater like himself.

After all, they were part of one of the great powers of the human race, and possessed a long heritage that stretched all the way back to the Age of Stars!

Perhaps it was par t of her training or perhaps she genuinely respected his accomplishments.

Whatever the case, Ves found Alexa to be an excellent confidante as he prepared to teach a bunch of formal classes at a legitimate university for the first time.

While Ves had no illusions that other Terrans would prove as tolerant and easy-going as Alexa, he at least became a lot more confident about his ability to teach his upcoming classes with the help of a supportive insider.

He would never be able to navigate all of the rules and handle all of the paperwork correctly without an attentive assistant taking care of the bureaucracy on her end!

He also doubted that he would have been able to become aware of all of the invisible cultural rules that Terrans cared about the most without the guidance from his teaching assistant.

Nonetheless, Ves clearly understood that Alexa could only help him in peripheral matters. He still needed to do the heavy lifting of imparting useful theories to his students and helping them acquire new proficiencies.

If his teaching content and teaching methods turned out to be inadequate, then the Eden Institute would never be able to justify his continued employment!

Ves would lose what might possibly be his only early opportunity to get in touch with a lot of first-raters at this stage in his career!

It became crucially important that he not only made his students smarter and more competent by the end of the semester, but also gained their approval in the process!

"The Eden Institute especially marketed your new Frontier Wisdom elective course to all of our students." Alexa explained. "Given the content of your subjects, it offers more appeal to our business students than our mech design students as the former are more likely to attain leadership positions where they have enough agency to make use of the knowledge that you have taught."

Ves nodded in acknowledgement. "I already expected as much. The syllabus for this course is not particularly heavy on technical matters. How appealing is Frontier Wisdom to the students of the Eden Institute?"

"This course has proven to be particularly popular, but not always for the right reasons. There are students who clearly signed not because they take your wisdom seriously, but because they wanted to coast through an easy class where they hardly need to employ complicated science or academic theories to earn a passing grade."

That sounded a bit insulting to Ves. He tried his best to turn Frontier Wisdom into a legitimate and useful package of lessons!

"While it is true that Frontier Wisdom is not academic, I don't intend to make it easy for people to pass." He stated in a severe tone. "Are professors allowed to issue graded assignments where students have to navigate challenging situations in highly realistic simulated environments?"

Alexa nodded. "Yes. This is a common teaching and grading method in any first-class school, particularly universities such as ours. Each of our graduates must be well-prepared to utilize what they have learned to solve real problems in professional settings. If you intend to do more than hold exams for this course, then you will need to prepare simulation scenarios in advance."

"Don't worry. I think I will be able to whip up a few exciting scenarios that will test the courage and the decision-making abilities of my cute little students." Ves deviously grinned. "By the way, how many students have signed up to learn what I have to teach about Frontier Wisdom?"

"The dean has set the limit at 250 students." Alexa replied. "Around two-thirds of them are business majors while the remaining third consist of mech design and other majors. They are not restricted by years so you will have to lecture first-year students as well as five-year students." That sounded a bit messy, but Ves could deal with it. He only thought that it would be a bit of a burden to grade the assignments and exam papers of so many individual students.

Ves and Alexa continued to discuss the logistics of his upcoming classes. The new semester was scheduled to start fairly soon, which meant that Ves had to reserve numerous time slots in his weekly schedule to fulfill his teaching obligations.

All of this work significantly decreased the amount of time he would be able to spend on his core job of mech design!

It would be difficult for him to complete all of his new design projects in a tight time frame.

Still, Ves did not regret applying to teach at the Eden Institute and agreeing to teach three different courses.

As long as he survived the first semester, he would gain a solid foothold in a first-class community!

It would become easier than ever for him to learn the comprehensive aspects of first-class mech design by taking advantage of his employment relationship with an authentic Terran university!

The greatest challenge at the moment was to find a comfortable balance between his two major obligations.

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