{"id":2375,"date":"2014-07-08T16:31:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2014-07-08T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:37:07","slug":"hack-into-cs-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/hack-into-cs-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack Into CS School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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Question: Does getting a good internship help you get into a CS school?<\/div>\n
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GOODNESS YES.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just go ask Max, Hunter, Catalin, Matias, or a half dozen other kids. They all got into great schools by surpassing others with entrepreneurship experience via a internship (ENGR145)<\/span><\/div>\n

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Oh muh gawd, get yourself a legendary internship as a high school kid. Google “Stanford bases legendary internship, Larry Chiang”. Instead of speaking, i got Cameron and Steph to speak for me<\/span><\/div>\n

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Lol I’m hiLarryAss.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This<\/span><\/div>\n

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This advice dovetails with a Steven Blank post that has a bit.ly<\/a> I can’t quote readily… It’s the fact that schools like undergrads that are going somewhere. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Schools are like sheep. They’re all looking for shepherds. But to be a good shepherd, you gotta beg to be an intern. It’s the sheep to shepherd maneuver. And it goes thru internship-ville.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Good news is that 30-sum year olds are mostly retarded because all the stuff they learned from college in the 90s is outdated. Better yet, solicit a 40 year old that went to college in the 80s for an internship<\/span><\/div>\n

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I would dress up like Oski if it meant I could work for me in 2003<\/div>\n

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Here are some knowledge nugget bullet points<\/span><\/div>\n
– Close for an internship via voicemail. Do you know what a horse whisperer is. Do you know what a dog whisperer is. Then learn what an OLD PERSON WHISPERER is and talk to old people via a sequence of voice De la mail.<\/span><\/div>\n

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– Get paid<\/span><\/div>\n
Don’t take an unpaid internship. Ask for at least $5k<\/span><\/div>\n

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– Prep. <\/span><\/div>\n
In dating they call it stalking. To old people, they call it persistence <\/span><\/div>\n

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– Do you know what a Jedi is? It’s a person who thinks a light sabre is a good idea in a fight against laser blasters<\/span><\/div>\n

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Be a Jedi and get an internship using Jedi in Business Administration, skills. Yeah, I made that up five years ago<\/span><\/div>\n

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Practice in the minors before dominating the pros Re “started a gumball business” #ENGR145<\/a> flip.it\/PP7TV<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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Jedi up the entrepreneur bell curve <\/span><\/div>\n
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By Larry Chiang Question: Does getting a good internship help you get into a CS school? GOODNESS YES. Just go ask Max, Hunter, Catalin, Matias, or a half dozen other kids. They all got into great schools by surpassing others with entrepreneurship experience via a internship (ENGR145) Oh muh gawd, get yourself a legendary internship […]<\/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-2375","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\/2375","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=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}