"Very popular with girls, huh? I saw three girls just around you asking questions, but in comparison, it wasn't as popular as your roommate at the Spanish restaurant, and he said you were working part-time here. Eric pressed his arm against the countertop and greeted Tommy, who was typing on the keyboard inside.

Tommy finished processing the form, raised his head and responded with a smile: "Jason? Of course, that guy does know how to unleash his charm. ”

"It can be seen that the guy is tightly surrounded by seven or eight boys, and asks him why he can't achieve equality between men and women in the amount of food, and pays the same money, and the ugly girl and the boy don't even have half the food on the plate of the beautiful woman." Eric couldn't help but laugh as he remembered what he saw in the Spanish restaurant.

Tommy looked at Eric speechlessly, "Maybe I can monopolize the dorm tonight, and he will go to the medical center to release his charm?" ”

Eric stared at Tommy for a moment, then looked down on the hall in the distance: "My brother didn't trust my choice enough, and then I kept asking myself in my mind, was the previous decision to invite you to the meeting later a bit hasty, so I ended up here, let's go, I invite you to a cup of coffee?" See if you increase my confidence in you, or do I withdraw that invitation? ”

"I have five minutes left to call it a day." Tommy looked at the clock in the library before speaking to Eric.

Eric nodded: "Very well, then I'll arrange your work for five minutes, and please find me a copy of Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover." ”

"No problem, but let me warn you, of the twenty copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover in our collection, almost all the pages of the exciting plot have been ripped off and lost, and I don't know which bastards who are not even willing to buy adult magazines have done this." Tommy operated the computer and said to Eric in his mouth.

If it weren't for his own experience, Tommy Hawke would never have believed that someone would have done such a thing, but the facts were presented in front of his eyes, needless to say that Lawrence's classic novel, that is, Dante's "Divine Comedy", Homer's "Homer's Epic" Some explicit poems will be forced to be collected by students, and the problem that can be solved by buying an adult magazine is just running to tear off the pages and increase his workload.

At Eric's request, Tommy gave him a book that didn't seem to be missing pages, and Eric just fiddled with the pages like an old bird and raised his middle finger at Tommy.

Waiting for Tommy's remaining few minutes of part-time work to be completely completed, he accompanied the other party to the café next to the library and ordered coffee and sat down.

"SSD is going to admit a total of 11 new students this year, guess what, why am I in front of you?" Eric waited for the waiter to bring coffee and evacuate before he looked at Tommy Hawke and spoke.

Tommy Hawk lowered his head, looked at the cup of coffee in front of him, and was silent for a moment before he spoke: "I guess you're coming to see me now to mean you're ready to give me your A-level attention?" But the rest of the fraternity apparently felt a bit of a waste? ”

Getting A-level attention means that as long as the freshman is not interested in the fraternity and actively refuses to join, it is basically equivalent to getting an invitation to join, and through the strange assessment period, he can become a full member of the fraternity.

All college freshmen take pride in receiving A-level or higher attention from the fraternity, which means that the fraternity appreciates you as a newcomer and is very interested in you.

"I feel like you should be good at party organization, you can be a great social event manager for the fraternity, but that's not enough, is there anything else I can know about you?" Eric took a sip of coffee, looked at Tommy, and asked in a relaxed tone, "You can talk to me, because after the A-level attention, it will be a closed-door meeting of the fraternity, and we will have an internal meeting to discuss and decide which newcomers to invite to join, I need to increase my convincing power to prove that you are the first generation of country college students to get my A-level attention." ”

"If you need to brag about your connections and background, okay, I know a Stanford freshman with a net worth of 600 million? But that guy is 100% of the way to the Order of the Phoenix, because everyone in his family is a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Tommy picked up his coffee and said with a smile: "I have a good personal relationship with the prime minister and governor general of a small country, and I know a Nobel laureate in economics. ”

"That's all I need, you know the fraternity very well, hillbilly, keep bragging, don't stop." When Eric hears Tommy's words, he thinks the other party is talking about it.

"That's pretty much it." Tommy said with a smile to Erik.

Eric slowly withdrew his smile: "The trait of liking jokes is not enough to make the Brotherhood pay attention to you, why did you join the Brotherhood?" Actually, this was supposed to be a job night, but it doesn't matter, let's talk about it now, if you don't have other connections and backgrounds you want to talk about. ”

"Friends, the university always has to have a few friends who can be with you, then the fraternity's connections, and finally the fraternity's alumni fund." Tommy didn't pretend to say that he had admired the ancient and mysterious Brotherhood for a long time, and directly stated the reason why he joined.

"Alumni funds? You've got a full scholarship, and you've made a lot of money from the summer camp, so you shouldn't be short of money. Eric asked with some confusion after listening to Tommy's words.

The SSD Alumni Fund is a charitable foundation dedicated to providing financial support to the current undergraduate and graduate members of the fraternity, and was originally established to help those of the fraternity who did not receive scholarships and could not do anything about the high tuition fees, but it was soon discovered that this was a wrong decision, because those who can join the fraternity and pay the membership fee basically do not have a headache about the tuition problem.

Therefore, the purpose has been changed again, from providing educational financial support to providing educational financial support and entrepreneurial financial support.

If members of the fraternity need financial support to start a business, they can obtain certain financial support after discussion by the fraternity branch and apply to the general association, and the general association will approve it.

"According to the plan I helped myself make, I will start a business while I am in college." Tommy looked at Eric, "The fraternity's alumni fund provides initial support. ”

Eric was not surprised by Tommy's words, in fact it is very common at Stanford University, and it is likely that students who were focused on the classroom yesterday suddenly decided to take a break from school today to start a business, and he asked Tommy:

"What industry?"

"Software industry." Tommy replied.

"Die, the alumni fund will not support you to develop erotic word games and software that you think are cool but are actually stupid, and your application says that you need money to watch a striptease, which is higher than writing that you will be approved by developing software entrepreneurship." Hearing Tommy say that he wanted to develop software, Eric definitely shattered Tommy's illusion of wanting to apply for entrepreneurial support, but gave another suggestion:

"If your software is really good, you don't need to spend time and effort to apply for alumni funds, here is Silicon Valley, there is no shortage of software development funds, what is lacking is software that is really worth investing in, I have seen several times the brothers around me try to develop software entrepreneurship, apply for investment, but the result is treated as garbage by investors, disdainful, I think you can make more money by opening a variety of bars near the university than developing software, at least if you open a bar, I am willing to invest."

These are the stories of Eric's experience, at Stanford University, he has seen countless fantasy developers who fantasize about developing a software that they think is unique, and then conquering the world, it turns out that the vast majority of them are the self-congratulatory of those guys, and after listening to their ideas, Eric's first reaction is to brainwash and prevent the contagion of intellectual retardation.

For example, Eric once met a mentally retarded member of his fraternity who was trying to develop a bed-calling software, but because of the huge workload, involving work such as sound synthesis, he wanted to find friendship investment and support within the fraternity and buy some development equipment.

When seeking support from within the fraternity, the guy explained his philosophy that this software must be as impressive as Playboy and "Penthouse", because the main function of this software is to allow users to open adult magazines when reading, and with the seductive female voice provided by the software, readers can get more vivid enjoyment when reading magazines.

It wasn't until Eric asked the idiot a question at the meeting: Why would I buy this app instead of a tape of an adult movie if I wanted to make my finger movements more enjoyable and lively.

There is also the development of a sleep aid software for insomniacs to count sheep, the whole software works on the principle that every second on the screen flashes a pixel goat and a growing number, the developer thinks it can help insomniacs fall asleep, it turns out that during the small-scale friendship test within the brotherhood, no one in the brotherhood fell asleep because the software helped count sheep, but a brother stared at the screen at more than 30,000 sheep, and boiled the computer to a failure.

So Eric persuaded Tommy to give up software development, be a normal human being, play to his strengths, such as opening a bar, etc., and not see that some of his alumni blindly joined the software industry because they became rich overnight because of developing software.

"Don't worry, I'm still using other software, and I've found the shortcomings of those software." Tommy smiled at Eric's teasing and was about to get up when he saw Stephen Beam and a member in a suit with a phoenix badge pinned to his chest walking in from outside and walking straight for the two.

"They know you?" Eric asked Tommy as he looked at the two of them who were getting closer.

"Remember the guy I said about being worth 600 million? That's him. Tommy raised a middle finger at Stephen: "Broad, long time no see." ”

Eric was stunned, he had always thought that what Tommy said was a joke!

But at this time, there was no time to continue to ask him, so he could only get up and take a deep look at Tommy, pick up the book and walk out of the café: "I look forward to seeing you on Friday." ”

Stephen sat down in Eric's vacated seat, looked at Tommy Hawke, and raised two middle fingers: "You actually came to California, and what's even more exaggerated, if it weren't for the fact that I heard some freshmen scolding a poor newborn ghost named Tommy Hawke for making money by selling them a half-truth fraternity newcomer manual, I wouldn't have known you would come." ”

"The chairman of the CSLS committee, Tommy Hawke, is a poor guy who doesn't want to make money all the time, but is the boss of me or a group of us." After Stephen finished scolding Tommy, he introduced himself to the Order of the Phoenix member next to him, and then said to Tommy: "Jim Murto, VSA's housing manager, when you and I pass VSA's newcomer review together, I'll ask him to help you keep a bedroom next door to me." ”

"But I haven't applied yet?" Tommy shook hands with the boy named Jim and said to Stephen, "Is the process already so simplified?" ”

"In front of you is the family owner of the Stanford Endowment Foundation, the most stable donor of the VSA Brotherhood, I only know that when I didn't come to Stanford to report, VSA already had my place, and now that you are here, you also have your place." Stephen pulls up his sleeve to reveal a small tattoo on his left wrist:

"Or you teach me, what is an application?"