My Age of Investment

"Bang Bang".

There were knocks on the door.

The puppy, the "payer" and "doorman", dragged his clogs and walked over to open the dormitory door.

"Excuse me, is this Xia Jingxing's dormitory?"

The dog saw an Asian boy with glasses standing at the door and asked politely.

The dog turned his head, "Boss, someone is looking for you."

Xia Jingxing was browsing the backstage of Facebook. At present, including the Sanyo girl in the opposite dormitory, there were already more than ten registered users, most of whom were girls.

As soon as he heard someone was looking for him, Xia Jingxing put down the computer and came towards the door.

"It's you?"

Lu Wenlong recognized it at a glance, isn't this the playboy who was surrounded by foreign girls two days ago?

Xia Jingxing knew this man with glasses. The two of them were familiar with each other in the previous life. They often met together when they were studying, but the contact was slowly broken after graduation.

"you know me?"

Xia Jingxing asked curiously, this should be the first time the two of them have met in this life.

In fact, he paid all his attention to Shen Xinyi during the first two days of eating, and didn't pay attention to the other little guys.

Lu Wenlong didn't answer, he quickly got down to business, took out an invitation card and handed it to Xia Jingxing: "This is a weekend BBQ party organized by the Stanford Chinese Students and Scholars Association, do you want to join?"

Xia Jingxing took the invitation and glanced at it. The date was a weekend and the location was in a nearby park. The registration fee was $10.

"Okay, thanks, I'll be there on time."

Xia Jingxing put away the invitation and replied with a smile.

Lu Wenlong probed into the dormitory and glanced twice, and it turned out that there were three beds, which were crowded.

Originally, he thought it was a young man from China, but now, looking at it, he is even worse than himself, and he still lives in a double room.

Then why can he drag three, and he is all babes?

Lu Wenlong left after handing over the invitation, without any idea of ​​continuing the conversation, probably because he had a bad first impression of Xia Jingxing.

Xia Jingxing was also happy to be at leisure. Anyway, in the previous life, the two of them didn't have much contact after graduating from college, and their relationship was normal.

He closed the door, sat back in his seat, and continued to check the backstage of the website.

As for the weekend party, I don't care too much.

Being human, we naturally don't have to worry about the small issues of getting familiar with the campus environment and finding a sense of belonging.

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Stanford University requires undergraduate students to complete 180 credits upon graduation, with an average of 45 credits per year and 15 credits in one semester, which means that each person takes 3 to 4 courses per semester.

After the official admission, Xia Jingxing also began to choose courses with other freshmen.

In one classroom, he sat under the stage with other students and listened to the course selection teacher on stage.

High-quality courses and a free course selection system are the characteristics of Stanford University's undergraduate education.

The school ranks courses according to the depth of the course.

For example, the course numbers of the Department of Computer Science are CS0 to CS599, of which: 0~99 are service courses, suitable for non-technical students to choose;

No. 100~199 are basic courses for undergraduates;

No. 200~299 are advanced undergraduate courses/junior graduate courses;

No. 300~399 are advanced postgraduate courses;

The class numbers at the back represent experiments and seminars.

...

The courses are very clearly divided. If you plan to engage in programming after graduation, choose some applied or simple courses, courses starting with 1;

If students want to continue their research work after graduation, they should choose more courses starting with 2.

The course selection teacher also made it very clear that students can choose courses according to their own foundation and future career plans.

If the selected course is too complicated to keep up with the rhythm,

It doesn't matter, you can return and re-select within 1-2 weeks after the class starts.

When Xia Jingxing chose courses, he did not choose many courses or advanced courses in order to pretend to be coercive.

He has taken many computer courses in his previous life. If it is purely to increase his knowledge, he can actually take some other professional courses as electives.

But he didn't.

I just took a few general courses in computer science. The water is good, and I have more time to do other things.

When it comes to water, it doesn't really go anywhere.

Each course at Stanford University has set homework time, usually a 3-credit course, requiring students to spend 3 hours per week in class, plus 6 hours on homework.

It can be seen that the school still attaches great importance to students' homework, so Xia Jingxing can't draw much water.

You may not attend the class, but the homework must be completed according to the quality and quantity.

The mid-term and final exams for computer majors are very simple, and the test scores generally only account for 25% to 50% of the final score of this course.

As a result, students put a lot of energy into weekly lectures, discussions, and assignments, and less time for exams.

This is different from domestic universities.

American undergraduates focus on homework and classroom performance, and despise exams.

Domestically, it is the other way around.

Domestic university students can usually fish in class, and then crawl when they have to take an exam.

It won't work here in the United States. You have to perform well at ordinary times, otherwise the GPA will be a mess in the end.

Like domestic teachers, foreigners sometimes like to chat about gossip and gossip.

Today, the course selection teacher faced a group of computer science students, and also talked about the awesomeness of Stanford.

"As you may have heard, Stanford has produced many well-known tech entrepreneurs.

In the distance are the two founders of Hewlett-Packard, Bill Hewlett and David Packard.

Nearby are Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal...

Netflix founder Reed Hastings, who upended the DVD industry, is also a graduate of our school.

His company just went public this year. If you are interested, you can try to buy some shares.

Don't come to me if you lose all your money and cry, it's just a suggestion, not an investment opinion. "

The humor of the course selection teacher made a group of students who just entered the university laugh out loud.

Listening to the names of these well-known tech billionaires, many students in the audience showed fascinated expressions.

A student who is determined to learn computer, who does not have a dream to change the world?

The little dog sat beside Xia Jingxing and said with great longing: "Daren, do you think our website will be listed one day in the future?"

"Listed."

Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "That's just the beginning."

The little dog smacked his tongue, feeling that the big guy was pretending to be a little big, and it was difficult to answer.

"Then students, do you know why so many tech billionaires are born at Stanford?

As long as the outside world mentions the keywords of Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship, and venture capital, they will be associated with our school. "

Looking at a group of little rookies in the audience, the class selection teacher asked and answered: "That's because of our unique style..."

The course selection teacher’s words are still the same, focusing on advocating Stanford’s innovative spirit, and there is a relatively mature mechanism for professors and students to commercialize the results in the laboratory…

If Xia Jingxing was to sum it up, it could be summed up in four words: Land rent is cheap.

The reason is that Stanford University was too poor in the early days, and the founder's will stated that the subsequent presidents could not sell the land, so the land was rented out cheaply and the contract was renewed for a long time.

As soon as I found out that it was so affordable, a large number of technology companies moved here, and Silicon Valley was gradually spawned.

In addition, California has a good climate, which should also be considered a geographical reason.

Silicon Valley was born around Stanford, and Silicon Valley fed Stanford back, which is a mutual achievement.

It’s hard to say elsewhere. In Silicon Valley, Stanford’s degree is very recognized, and Silicon Valley companies give priority to hiring Stanford students.

As soon as I entered the company, I found that many of my colleagues and superiors were alumni.

In addition, computer science students have a course CS210, where students work in teams to solve challenging problems posed by companies such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft for two semesters.

The purpose is to train students' practical ability through actual combat.

Silicon Valley and Stanford are almost like this relationship, you have me, I have you.

"If you want to start a business in the future, you must take the CS194 course, which I highly recommend."

The humorous course selection teachers danced on stage as if they were selling something amazing.

When the freshmen in the audience heard about entrepreneurship, they all listened attentively, for fear of missing any important details.

The course selection teacher was very satisfied with the response of the students. The only thing he was dissatisfied with was that there was an Asian-looking boy with a short head yawning in the audience. Could it be that what he said was not attractive enough?

The course selection teacher set his sights on the Asian youth, and said with vigour: "This course requires students to form a team to complete a meaningful programming application, and many startups have come out of this course.

If your project is good enough, you may be able to get angel investment from a professor who has successfully started a business.

Guys and girls who want to start a business must have a good relationship with the professors.

These professors are very rich, and many also serve as angel investors or partners in VC institutions. "

Xia Jingxing nodded, this is true.

Snapchat (Sarah) was born from this course. The founder originally wanted to complete a homework, but did not expect to turn it into a startup project, and then went public, with a market value of tens of billions of dollars, and married supermodel Miranda Ke. Son.

Who is this to reason with?

Stanford has too many entrepreneurial legends to count.

Seeing that the Asian young man finally nodded in approval of his words, the course selection teacher showed a happy smile: "Okay, guys, this is the end of the introduction. I wish you all a wonderful and happy college life. Thank you!"

With applause and cheers, the course selection teacher finally flashed.

Xia Jingxing and the little dog also left and walked to the door of the classroom, when he was about to go out, he saw a familiar face.

Involuntarily stopped.