The three Ph.D. students excitedly followed An Ning. It was their first time visiting her office.
The moment they stepped inside, they thought they had gone to the wrong place. They all backed out into the hallway to look again, confirming that An Ning's name was on the door.
"What is it? My humble office can't hold the three of you?"
An Ning's one sentence scared them into trying to enter the room all at once, only to get stuck in the doorway together.
Sitting in the office's only rocking chair, An Ning looked at the three people wedged in her doorway and asked doubtfully, "Are you sure your degrees are real?"
After a difficult struggle of moving back in unison, then forward in unison, only to remain stuck, the three Ph.D.s finally communicated, letting the woman go first.
Once the three of them were standing inside the office, they fidgeted awkwardly. They had just made fools of themselves.
"Did you bring your theses?"
"I did!"
"I did!"
"I didn't!"
