Update: I’ve posted my admission to the Master’s University for Computer Science publically on my facebook page. Maybe there was some type of truth to it: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C1mMXm9NM/
So, a lot of people may read the blog and comic and think “oh he must be leaking actual secrets”. I’m not, but I’ll explain what you are misunderstanding. I believe I can reverse engineer conversations. It’s a skill that I worked on for a long time. It involves imaging and daydreaming discussions that are mostly mundane. Once you get the mundane stuff down, like your mailman ordering from McDonald’s drive-through, you can sometimes reverse engineer a conversation that sounds cool. That’s all this is.
To show an example that comes up much later, which is not military classified, is another dream I had, but this time, it was about Harvard University.
I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HARVARD UNIVERSITY OR ANYONE WHO WENT TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY, AND I JUST TOOK A CS50 COURSEARA CLASS OK. IF THIS IS SOME HARVARD SECRET, I APOLOGIZE.
I was at an assembly at Harvard University, where they were welcoming in their freshman. It seemed like a lot of people from the other schools were there as well. The speaker began by talking about the US News rankings. They explain that the rankings cost $250,000 per ranking, and it’s a massive scam. Harvard’s name is brought up because they pay the $250,000 to get their ranking spot and net a couple of million in application fees. So they tell them to warn them that you have to hire as many people from Harvard as possible when you get a job.
They talked a little bit about the history of the rankings, and specifically that the rankings came about because someone was pissed because their neighbor was very proud his daughter went to the University of Nebraska. So, everyone at Harvard must ensure that Nebraska is kept off the rankings at all costs.
They admit they have a lax verification policy, and I’ll leave it as is.
They talked about what “The Scam” means in Harvard culture. The scam is when someone from Harvard will approach another person from Harvard in the middle of some business or money-making scheme and ask them, “What’s the scam?” It’s to fill them in on how the business works. I did like that part.
Anyway, the way to verify someone from Harvard out in the open is to ask them about their day of admission. That was the current date of the assembly.
The other thing you can ask is, “Are you in on the scam.”
So now, if this was true and Harvard found out about me being in on the scam, would they give me a Day of admission that I can put on my resume and wall?
I tweeted them, but there has been no response so far.