"Hmm, so Professor Han, you're really not interested?"
"Really not. An old-timer like me, just forget it. Opportunities should be given to the younger generation."
"Alright then."
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"Director Li, come on, you know I did my doctorate at Humboldt University. Going for another exchange would be completely meaningless. How about you let someone else go? Besides, if I leave, what happens to the 'Probability Theory' class for the Qiao Class next semester? That's a teaching task set by Dean Xu, and I wouldn't dare hand it over to anyone else. You know the importance of the first Qiao Class."
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"Director Li, it's like this—I think I'm still young. There will be plenty of opportunities to go abroad for exchanges in the future. Opportunities like this should really be given to the more senior professors. Besides, even if I go, I honestly don't know what I could exchange about. Really, it's not that I'm being modest; I genuinely don't have much confidence."
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