Chapter 25: Why not give it a try
"I think Stanford has become frantic in order to catch up with Harvard, Yale, Duke, New York University, and other prestigious schools, and I took the time to make a phone call yesterday with a high school classmate who is studying at New York University, and he has a very pleasant life in that kind of semester-based elite school, and the intensity and pressure of learning can be ignored compared to Stanford's damn quarter system, what is the most exaggerated thing, you know? Their class is only 50 to 70 minutes, and our class is twice as long as theirs, so by the time I graduated, my bladder or prostate had been completely destroyed, and I could only carry a urine bag in one hand and receive the diploma awarded to me by the dean in the other. ”
Jason yawned, sat down in his dining room seat and sipped his coffee to refuel himself, then complained to Tommy, who was sitting across from him for breakfast, about the intense school life at Stanford.
Tommy lowered his head and enjoyed the food, but Jason's complaint made the other breakfast students in the cafeteria echo him, talking about his friends who studied at other semester colleges, and compared to himself at Stanford, it was like being in heaven.
It's no wonder that they complain that Harvard, Yelu, and other old and famous schools are still using the traditional semester system, that is, a year is divided into two semesters, but schools like Stanford University have chosen a more efficient quarter system, and the year is divided into four semesters, that is, if you are studying at Harvard and hate a professor and his class, you have to endure at least half a year, but at Stanford, ten weeks will end the course and start a new course.
Tommy Hawke felt that he could bear Stanford's pressurized approach of pursuing learning efficiency, taking midterm exams in the first month and final exams in the second month, as for Jason's complaints, Tommy could only say that American college students are too happy and have not experienced the problems of Chinese high school students.
"On the bright side, that means that we can experience more than six courses in our four years of undergraduate studies at Stanford University than those students from traditional elite universities with a semester system, and you can easily get a double degree as long as you have enough energy." Tommy finished his sandwich before he said to Jason.
Jason stared at Tommy hatefully: "Double degree? Enough energy? Man, other people don't know my energy, don't you know? I've been drained of all the stuff you've arranged, and I almost don't feel it every morning now, you know, when I first started school, it was full of energy every morning. ”
"I know, I know, Mr. Cowherd, I'm sorry, so today I'm going to share some of your work, such as hosting our first student as well as clients." Tommy took his coffee and drank it, then wiped his lips and said to Jason.
Jason scolded Tommy in disgust, "F*ckYou! Tommy! You don't really want to share it at all, you just want to join me to see if there are any beautiful girls among the trainees! Is that right? ”
"Watching a girl doesn't conflict with sharing work." Tommy said, "Well, most women choose to come to training on Saturday mornings when business is cold, and you know why, because the men who pay them have to come back to their families on Saturdays to free up the tools to satisfy their wives who don't have to pay for it." ”
Jason finished his last sip of coffee, got up with Tommy and left the restaurant, and asked puzzled as he walked, "Didn't you find a few girls to help you receive them?" You don't have to go so early to see the girl, wouldn't it be better to go to the classroom to see it? ”
"Ever since I discovered those stupid* abilities yesterday, I understand why a lot of company founders like to get their hands dirty." Tommy scolded in an unkind tone.
Stanford University actually doesn't have a serious gate, anyway, most of the nearby land belongs to Stanford, and they can play as they please, so the designers they hired to design the campus layout at a high price did not design the gate for Stanford at all, but designed a mile-long palm avenue, and the road is lined with huge palm trees that are twenty or thirty meters high.
In short, at first glance, the newcomer immediately understands what it means to be imposing.
When he first came to Stanford, Tommy Hawke even went out of his way to walk along this palm boulevard at sunset, imagining himself to be a lonely cowboy who went alone to the old Stanford manor to kill and take revenge.
Because the scenery of this avenue at sunset looks more like the Sycamore Avenue in "Red Dead Redemption 2" where eight cowboys go against the light to take revenge.
Tommy was sitting at the reception desk at the entrance to Palm Avenue, a mile away from Stanford University, smoking a cigarette and ignoring the three girls who were constantly casting disgusted glances at him.
Gary Good, who facilitated the collaboration with Tommy for training, has been scolded by the members to the point of blood, and now everyone knows that he has hired a rude and savage country bastard to work with to promote women's employment, but the bastard has no respect for women, and scolds and cries two poor girls at the first meeting.
A bus stopped at a stop not far away, it was the earliest bus of the day, only two people got off the bus, a man and a woman, first stood in place and looked at it, and then saw the signboard at the reception, and then walked towards Tommy and the others with some hesitation.
Tommy's eyes were always on the bus, and he put his legs down before the bus stopped, and looked at the two people who were getting closer and closer, and took the initiative to speak: "You two, I guess you want to ask about computer training?" ”
The man and woman obviously didn't know each other, but they both nodded at this time, which surprised Jason next to him, and he lowered his voice and said to Tommy: "Tommy, you did publicity outside of "Joy Seeker"? Or are the clients also interested in learning computers? ”
"Maybe the client wants to have some common language with the prostitute when they are making out? Or is it a cowherd? Oh my God, it's a perfect match for you, you can talk to each other! Tommy smiled and said to Jason, then stood up and looked at the two:
"This is the reception, your names?"
One of them, the dark-haired, relatively small woman, was the first to speak and said to Tommy, "I called yesterday, Susan Curtis, you answered, I remember your voice. ”
"You're so lucky, Miss Curtis, yes, that's right, I remember, the discount coupon one, right?" Tommy walked over and shook Susan's hand: "Tommy Hawke, these are my classmates and colleagues. ”
Then he looked at the young man, who was always a little evasive in his eyes, about twenty-three or fourteen years old, and when he saw Tommy looking at him, his first reaction was to lower his head, and then immediately raised to look at Tommy.
Tommy asked, "Man, what do you call it?" ”
"Mark, Mark Warren." The youth said to Tommy, "I didn't call, I just saw an ad, so I wanted to come and see, I'm at a community college in San Francisco." ”
"To be honest, I didn't expect there to be men in the first batch of trainees, because after all, the initiating organization is called the Women's Equality Promotion Association, but it doesn't matter, we don't engage in gender discrimination, and the cowherd can also be trained." After talking to the other party, Tommy turned his head to look at Jason:
"For better communication, I carry Miss Susan Curtis and you carry Mr. Mark Warren."
"F*ckYou! Jason White watched as Tommy got into one of the two golf carts they drove with a woman named Susan.
Only the man named Mark Warren was left, looking at himself cautiously, which made Jason shudder: "Shit! Well, sir, get in the car with me, but please keep enough distance! I remind you that Stanford's varsity police are all over the campus, and they all have guns! ”
When the golf cart started and drove into Palm Avenue, Tommy held the steering wheel and asked Susan, who was enjoying the beautiful scenery beside him:
"You probably haven't been to Stanford before?"
"I didn't go to any college, I only went to high school." Susan retracted her gaze and said to Tommy.
Tommy exhaled and nodded understandingly, "College is actually just a bigger piece of than high school, and the tuition is expensive." ”
"Your tone doesn't sound quite like the students here." Susan looked at Tommy and said curiously, "It's like some of the bastards I meet regularly." ”
"College bastards are more scary than what you encounter, and the bastards you meet know shame, and college bastards have no shame, and what's worse is that sooner or later, these shameless bastards will rule the country." Tommy glanced at Susan's heavy dark circles and made sure it wasn't the smoky makeup that the other party had painted, and then asked:
"Do you have a penchant for drugs or drugs? Explain beforehand, if there is, I don't recommend you to waste your time. ”
"I don't even have to save on alcohol and cigarettes, and I don't touch those more expensive hobbies, so you would recommend a job?" Susan answered Tommy's question, but immediately asked back.
"That's right, but only if you know how to learn and be proficient, that job may not earn as much as you pick up customers, but you should be paid two hundred dollars a week, and you have a desk in the company that belongs to you, and your colleague will ask if you need to go to the pantry for a cup of coffee, instead of notifying you that the police will come to search, she will discuss the latest movie with you, instead of talking to you about where the clinic is cheaper for syphilis treatment, you don't have to worry about receiving discount coupons again, because you will receive a paycheck every week, And they also have to provide employee insurance. Tommy looked ahead and said with a smile on his lips:
"You can wear a decent women's suit, comb your hair neatly, put on light makeup and sit in front of the computer instead of scarlet nails, and lie in bed in cheap fishnet stockings, low-cut suspenders and hot pants, and in general, this promotion will try to turn your former you into a white-collar clerk, you know? It's the decent women you pass by an insurance company or a car dealership, and you're sitting in front of a computer in a well-dressed place. ”
"Can you do those jobs with a high school degree? No one told me. Susan said suspiciously.
"No one told me how to socialize with girls, kiss or have sex, but that didn't stop me from being self-taught." Tommy laughed and turned his face to look at Susan Curtis:
"So, ma'am, the important thing is to take advantage of the free opportunity to be self-taught, and to correct this fucking fate again, it can't be worse than it is now, so why not give it a try, right?"
"Yes, you're right, it can't be worse than the fucking one now, so why not give it a try." Susan nodded in agreement: "So you only make four dollars an hour?" ”
"No, as the owner of this training business, I can't even earn four yuan at the moment, I've been spending money, and I haven't made a profit." Tommy said to Susan, "I want to make my first money back from you." ”
The first more ~~
(End of chapter)