Always a successful student, Wei originally thought upon entering grad school in the Department of Computer and Information Science at NCTU that he was headed for academia, but he made a discovery during the course of long hours in the labs and libraries: "Most thesis papers are baloney. They don't solve real problems."
求學路上一路順遂的魏煥雲，剛進入交大資訊科學研究所就讀時，以為自己會走上學術研究的路。不過，鎮日泡在實驗室和論文堆裡的他卻發現，「大部分的論文其實都是『假』的，沒有解決真實問題！」