{"id":1416,"date":"2013-06-15T18:09:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T22:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2013-06-15T18:29:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T22:29:12","slug":"how-to-fake-dropping-out-of-engineering-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/how-to-fake-dropping-out-of-engineering-school\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fake Dropping Out of Engineering School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to Fake Dropping Out of Engineering School  By Larry Chiang  Dropping out is all the rage. I&#8217;m the guy who shows you &#8216;how to have your cake and eat it too&#8221;.  I&#8217;m Larry Chiang and I&#8217;m street smart engineering like that.  Ok, here is &#8220;How to Fake Dropping Out of Engineering School&#8221; while graduating that tier one engineering school on-time.  -1- In ONE SUMMER, start and sell one entity.  Start by announcing in May or March that beginning when summer starts, you&#8217;ll be dropping out for a year. Plan to just drop out for one summer. Set the goal to start and sell one company during that summer.  Return to college in the fall. It helps if you&#8230;  -2- Find two drop out buddies that are engineers also.  Do you know how much more valuable a team of engineers are compared to solo engineers?? Scaled exponentially in value.  You and your two buddies should start a lemonade stand business* ENGR 145 style** and sell it. Worst case scenario, you&#8217;re an aquisition-hire &#8220;Aqui-Hire&#8221;  * Lemonade and Gua Gua Guacamole technique! <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/buster14512v\" >https:\/\/bit.ly\/buster14512v<\/a>  **My Stanford Engineering video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve   <embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/>   -3- Plan on making the highest GPA your first quarter back  -4- Apply and get into YC Mid-Session  -5- Teach ENGR 145 (the class you never took but mastered and executed). Teach ENGR 145 to MBA&#8217;s.   I mean it&#8217;s the next, next class that they&#8217;ll teach MBAs about entrepreneurship. They got it from Stanford Engineering :-))   It&#8217;s where they teach the best entrepreneurship methods \ud83d\ude00  *My Stanford Engineering video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve   <embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/>    What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit\" >https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit<\/a>  American Express&#8217; Under-Promoted Credit Truths at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week (MBFW)&#8221;  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/inxTmZAj\" >https:\/\/t.co\/inxTmZAj<\/a>     CEO of Duck9 MIT University EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence)  Duck9 = &#8220;Deep Underground Credit Knowledge&#8221; 9 125 University Avenue\/ 100 Palo Alto CA 94301 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/ass\" >https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/ass<\/a> 650-566-9600 650-566-9696 (direct) 650-283-8008 (cell)  **************** Editor of the BusinessWeek Channel &#8220;What They Don&#8217;t Teach at Business School&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\" >https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog<\/a> CNN Video Channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang\" >https:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a>  Read my last 10 tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.Twitter.com\/LarryChiang\" >https:\/\/www.Twitter.com\/LarryChiang<\/a>  Author, NY Times Bestseller <a href=\"https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller\" >https:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller<\/a>  &#8220;What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8221; comes out 11-11-14  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049\" >https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049<\/a>  52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering <embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vDBY0GkI3-g&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/>  Emergency swings and cutting deals as an 9 year old  <embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFGY7v9C4G0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/>  ########## Duck9 is part of UCMS Inc. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucms.com\" >https:\/\/www.ucms.com<\/a> 630-705-5555  More on #ENGR145&#8217;s SHIFTING right on the entrepreneur bell curve  <embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VZ45MliL-OM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Fake Dropping Out of Engineering School By Larry Chiang Dropping out is all the rage. I&#8217;m the guy who shows you &#8216;how to have your cake and eat it too&#8221;. I&#8217;m Larry Chiang and I&#8217;m street smart engineering like that. Ok, here is &#8220;How to Fake Dropping Out of Engineering School&#8221; while graduating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}