Днеска чета една книжка, ест. предимно през работно време (може да успея да я завърша тая вечер) "Poor Charlie's Almanack" (най-общо за философията на Чарли Мънгър, милиардер и бизнес-партньор на Уорън Бъфет) и се научих как лесно да завърша Харвард.
There was a wonderful example of gaming a human system in the career of Victor Niederhoffer in the Economics Department of Harvard. Victor Niederhoffer was the son of a police lieutenant, and he needed to get A's at Harvard. But he didn't want to do any serious work at Harvard because what he really liked doing was, one, playing world-class checkers; two, gambling in high-stakes card games, at which he was very good, all hours of the day and night; three, being the squash champion of
the United States, which he was for years; and, four, being about as good a tennis
player as a part-time tennis player could be.
This did not leave much time for getting A's at Harvard, so he went into the Economics Department. You'd think he would have chosen French poetry. But
remember, this was a guy who could play championship checkers. He thought
he was up to outsmarting the Harvard Economics Department. And he was.
He noticed that the graduate students did most of the boring work that would otherwise go to the professors, and he noticed that because it was so hard to get
to be a graduate student at Harvard, they were all very brilliant and organized and
hardworking, as well as much needed by grateful professors.
And, therefore, by custom, and as would be predicted from the psychological
force called "reciprocity tendency," in a really advanced graduate course, the professors always gave an A.
So Victor Niederhoffer signed up for nothing but the most advanced graduate courses in the Harvard Economics Department, and, of
course, he got A, after A, after A, after A, and was hardly ever near a class. And, for a while, some people at Harvard may have thought it had a new prodigy on its hands.
That's a ridiculous story, but the scheme will work still. And Niederhoffer is famous: They call his style "Niederhoffering the curriculum."
Като се замисля и аз съм правил нещо подобно - втори курс в ТУ-София награбих сите проекти дето можеше да се вземат за "освобождаване от изпит" и помогнах на един доктор да стане доцент, па ми удариха 6-ците. Не ходих и на 10 лекции - колегите ме беха забравили (залягах над Telerik Academy-ята тогава), па и щраках по дискотеките. Тоя метод работи. 😊
