HAHA I enjoyed that.

Find each of your professors’ Phd dissertation, any other publications/books they may have written. Read the summaries, abstracts, conclusions, speed read or scan the table of contents of everything. If something looks especially interesting or particularly relevant to the class you’re taking with them, read it with more attention. Then, cite them to themselves in every paper you write for them. Try to do it in an amusing or otherwise interesting way.

This trick will almost certainly improve their assessment of your your work.. I always tried to make my work entertaining to both write and read, and this is one sure fire way to do that.

You’re not there to study. There are far better ways to study. You’re there to schmooze.

So don’t avoid the drunken parties. Just try not to drink more than you have to while there.

This is one of many things I wish someone had told me when I was younger.

There’s something cynical about advice that doesn’t work if everyone follows it. (I suppose we could build classrooms with only a front row.)

“Avoid drunken parties.”

Never thought of such a thing.

“Bend every rule you can, and associate with the most non-compliant students you can find. Because your school is trying to dehumanize you, you must strive to retain your humanity.”

I’m not a general consumer of Caplan, but has he always acknowledged the evil of modern institutions? Doesn’t he exist inside of, and benefit from, said institutions? When the mob rightfully comes for his institution, will he thank them profusely for doing necessary work?

The payload is the idea of interring yourself in the Atlantic empire’s seminary system in the first place.