Well, it's done. I have finally finished making my combined parent/professor College Visit / Campus Tour Bingo card, distilled from the several we did this summer. Please use responsibly and joyously (and remember to never take these tours too seriously).
“Hi, I graduated in 1987, I’ve been the CTO at three companies, two of which were startups and we had a great exit. I’m looking for one more opportunity, whether that be CTO or CEO. Do you have any leads?”
50% of the card is absolutely true and 50% is absolutely false, and the challenge is figuring out which is which.
Brilliant. Hope there’s a bit of joy mixed in the visits, too.
Oh, it's quite fun. My child is every bit as cynical as I am, so the main challenge is not breaking out in laughter at some of the things they say (especially as we've been building up the bingo card), and not rolling eyes so hard that there's an audible sound.
"Water slide"
What is “”Demonstrated interest“”?
You're not going to believe this shit. [Random Website, but their description is accurate.] blog.prepscholar.com/colleges-tha...
[Narrator: she did believe this shit.]
Oh my God, the sheer amount of work that goes into just being allowed to pay insane amounts of money to these places! [You’re right, I do believe it, but academia is so broken across continents, in entirely different ways, that it still blows my mind a little every time I encounter a new one]
It sort of makes sense, it is a business after all and they want to get as much information about customers as they can. It's easy for me at Brown to be snobbish about it. I think at every place the academics would gladly yeet this stuff into the sun, while the business side goes full Col. Jessup.
Needless to say, I got kid to create an alt account that is used for all these. Kid checks about once a week and perfunctorily clicks on all the links in all the messages, closes tabs, and gets on with life. Two can play this game.
Only a short step away from building bots that can do all this, with a “human-seeming” delay built into it so it doesn’t seem bottish 😂
"Hey ChatGPT, read this text and tell me how many seconds I should wait before clicking on the button to give the impression I actually read all this text."
