"It's not uncommon for freshmen to come to the library for part-time jobs in the first week, and it usually takes two to three weeks for freshmen to get a general idea of what's going on on the Stanford campus and find that there are no other part-time jobs to choose from." Maya Gibbons, the curator of the Technical Support and Help Center at the Henry Meyer Memorial Library at Stanford University, tells Tommy about the library.

The Stanford University Library is a collective term for twenty different libraries, and the Meyer Library, where Tommy worked part-time, was completed in 1966 to commemorate Henry Meyer, the founder of the Stanford Endowment Fund, an early Stanford University donor, and is a four-story building with a 24-hour first floor open 24 hours a day, including several study group discussion rooms, a 24-hour reading hall with a collection of 400,000 books, a technical support center on the second floor, the Stanford Asian Library on the third floor, and a library office area on the fourth floor.

Tommy's work is mainly at the service desk on the first floor, when students come to ask for a certain book, they use the computer to look up the list, give each other a specific location area, or help the students print some study materials on the computer for a fee.

“Apple II？” Tommy looked at the computer he had been assigned to use, and was a little stunned: "I thought that because of the failure of the Apple III, many universities would abandon the Apple brand." ”

The second and third generations of Apple in his mouth are the two computers that Apple sold before, after the former was sold, Jobs ambitiously launched the third generation, but because the concept was too advanced, and he affected the aesthetics of the whole machine, regardless of dissuasion and opposition, forcibly removed the built-in radiator of the computer, which directly led to the heating effect of the third generation of computers that left the factory in the early stage comparable to a fireplace.

Moreover, the price of Apple III is too high, and the overall operation has changed too much, so that the market share grabbed by the second generation is quickly eaten up by other brands of computers, and Jobs, who stubbornly makes wrong market judgments, is regarded as a black sheep by shareholders, thinking about how to kick him out of the company all day long.

"When the Apple3 was first released, we did purchase some, but found that the VisiCalc on the Apple2 could not run on the new generation of computers at all, and the heat dissipation effect of the new computers was not good, so we all returned and continued to use the previous Apple2, after all, our library only purchased computers because of the VisiCalc software." Maya watched Tommy turn on the computer and introduced:

"The library's collection list is made by VisiCalc, and as the collection grows, it is constantly added and entered, compared to the previous need to go through a lot of paper records to help find books, this software makes the query efficiency much faster, do you know about this software?"

VisiCalc is a dedicated spreadsheet software on Apple computers, Apple2 can sell well, seventy percent of the reason is that the software developed by the soft art company is loved by major schools and companies, liberating them from traditional paper forms, and this software can only run on Apple2.

Just like the Stanford University Library at this time, the reason for purchasing Apple computers was just because they needed to use this software.

"I deliberately bought a computer and the same software, but many of the operations were not completely memorized, and it was very difficult to use." Tommy operated the keyboard, ran the software, brought up the list of books in the library, showed it to the Mayan teacher, and spoke.

Seeing Tommy's operation, Maya nodded with satisfaction: "This is already very good, if you have a problem with the operation, you can use it with the user manual next to it, some more complex fault problems, you can contact me, or go to the second floor to contact other management teachers, we will arrange technical personnel to deal with it." ”

"Thanks, I have no further questions, Mrs. Gibbons." Tommy nodded at Maya, indicating that he was aware of all the questions.

Maya responded with a smile to Tommy and left the workbench, "Well, good luck with your first day of part-time work. ”

However, after she took a few steps, she couldn't help but turn her head to look at Tommy Hawk, who was concentrating on the computer, this tall, sunny blonde boy was unusually conspicuous in the library, she had just noticed that since he appeared at the work desk, there were already several girls reading in the hall who couldn't help but look at him, and she had just left a few steps before a girl got up and walked to the workbench, obviously preparing to ask Tommy for advice.

This boy shouldn't be here, according to past experience, this kind of freshman who looks and looks good will choose to work part-time in a restaurant or a stadium or something like to spread his charm to attract those beautiful and outgoing girls, and most of the students here who are part-time or come to check the information are wearing high glasses and don't care about dressing, and are jokingly called nerds.

"The number of girls who like to come to this library to read may increase because of this young man named Tommy." Maya smiled and muttered to herself, then walked to her office.

……

The SSD Brotherhood House on Stanford Greek Avenue, known internally as Sparta, covers an area of more than 2,400 square meters, with twenty bedrooms, a large conference room, a large kitchen with a dedicated chef, a laundry room, a fraternity honor room full of certificates, photos and trophies, a sacred secret room, and other rooms.

The land is owned by Stanford University, and the fraternity pays an annual rent, which is generally paid by funds donated by fraternity alumni and dues collected.

While Tommy Hawk was working part-time in the library, several administrators of the SSD's Stanford Chapter were in the conference hall discussing Friday's recruiting party, the biggest event of the year for the fraternity because it would determine the future of SSD.

After all, these managers today will graduate one day, and sooner or later the fraternity will be handed over to those newcomers, and whether the SSD will continue to grow or close its doors depends on their vision at the recruitment party.

If you recruit a group of rookies with poor self-control, poor social skills, and simple minds, causing the Brotherhood to have its reputation damaged or simply operate unfavorably and close its doors, then wait to be engraved on the pillar of shame.

"There's a senator's son who joined Stanford this year, and I think he deserves to be noticed by the S-Class, and I've received the word that at least five fraternities, along with us, are ready to pull him in." The fraternity housing manager told what he had received: "That senator is going to be the deputy secretary of state one day." ”

For the fraternity, although anyone will be considered for publicity, but that will also deceive the simple-minded freshmen, the fraternity's primary consideration is always the children and grandchildren of high-ranking politicians, such as absorbing the son of a Florida governor to join the fraternity, although the Stanford University chapter does not seem to enjoy too many political resources, but the fraternity is a national organization, and the Florida chapter can naturally get a lot of resources and exposure.

"So you've had access to him? Does he personally prefer the Order of the Phoenix or us? Brotherhood President Charles Samon said, looking at the housing manager.

The house manager shrugged: "He's still thinking about it, he personally likes the Order of the Phoenix, but his father wants him to choose us, because the charity we bundle is the Vietnam Veterans Charity Care Foundation, and his father is more interested in this association, and the Charity of the Order of the Phoenix is the Cancer Care Foundation, which is not attractive enough compared to our partners, their care is just a group of miserable people waiting to die, and ours is a warrior who is fighting for the United States, of course his father knows how to choose." ”

"Huntsman, call the headquarters, ask the Vietnam Veterans Care Foundation to send an invitation letter to this new father, ask him to attend some fundraising activities of the association, and build a good relationship, we help those Vietnam War drunkards raise millions of dollars every year without no return, and then you contact him to see what that guy is interested in, women, alcohol, grades, honors, etc., the information is as detailed as possible, so that I can talk to him more calmly on Friday night, next." After Charles finished speaking, he gently tapped the table twice with his hand and motioned for the next question.

"The son of the California attorney general also attends Stanford University this year." The social manager spoke at this point.

"You put the son of the California Attorney General in second place?" Charles looked at the social manager who spoke, and said dissatisfiedly, "Okay, go on." ”

"Although that guy is undoubtedly an S-class concern, he only likes DTS, and the odds of joining us or the Order of the Phoenix are negligible, which is why I didn't say it in the first place."

"The son of the Washington Lieutenant Secretary of State, who is enrolled at Stanford University this year, I would suggest that a B level of attention is sufficient, because the odds of joining us are not high, and he is ready to join the Brotherhood of the Public Interest to work to echo his mother's fight against racism."

"The son of the Los Angeles Long Beach Sheriff's Commissioner, an A-class concern, a muscular idiot, has been longing for our SSD for a long time, give him an A-level attention, and he is definitely our person, he has a ninety-foot yacht at home, he joins us, and we can have one more activity to go to Los Angeles for a yacht ride in the summer."

Several other people also told the information they had gathered, and Charles looked at Eric, the recruiting chairman, who had never spoken: "Eric, are you going to remain silent until the end of the meeting?" ”

"I have a country boy in my hand, the first generation, and the family is also unknown, but that guy is very smart, he and his roommate themselves made a lot of money by selling fake news to the new students, and then started a party, and took the lead in expanding the social circle among the new students." Eric thought for a moment, looked at Charles, and spoke of his thoughts.

Charles frowned slightly: "Eric, don't waste your time on those country rookies who are difficult to make a big deal and only know how to pick up girls in college, we need new blood to strengthen the brotherhood, but we won't choose the kind of fool who has no vision and guts, only knows how to nest in the corner and secretly exercises with five fingers, and the first reaction when meeting a girl in a big city is to cover the crotch of his pants." ”

"I think if he passes the inspection, he can do social work for the fraternity in the future, and that guy is absolutely experienced in holding parties, not at all like a hillbilly, who of you can want to go out on the beach and pick a couple to do it, untie a woman's corset, and then run away to exercise your ability to catch a corset with one hand? That guy can think of it, and I've seen it with my own eyes, and it's fast. Eric still couldn't hide his shock when he talked about what he had seen in Tommy's dorm room: "And I think there's so much more to his potential than meets the eye, so I wanted to give him an A-level attention." ”

"A-level attention, brother, there were only nine A-level or above attention at our recruitment party that night, are you sure you want to waste the quota on a country boy?" Charles frowned slightly, staring at Eric in an accentuated tone.

The so-called A-level or above attention means that the nine managers of SSD took their precious time to focus on the nine new students one-on-one on the night of the recruitment party.

Therefore, it is necessary to determine in advance the list of nine freshmen who are concerned about A-level or above, such as the highest S-level concern, and there are only two positions, namely the chairman and vice chairman of the fraternity to communicate with each other as freshmen, understand each other's wishes, and invite each other to join the club.

Eric nodded: "Brother, I insist, that kid is definitely the material to become a bastard, by the way, that guy's information says that he is good at table tennis, which is also a plus for newcomers, after all, other newcomers write more about rugby." ”

"Very good, you are my brother in the same period, I choose to believe in your persistence." Charles saw Eric's affirmative tone, and finally nodded: "Let's see if he will be the bastard we need, this year's rookie game, our goal is to take out the Order of the Phoenix and DTS, and regain the title of the First Brotherhood of Stanford." ”