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7 Book Covers in 7 Days Challenge
Rules: Each day, I will post the cover of a book that I love and nominate someone new to start the challenge. No explanation, no discussion, just post the cover and by doing so spread some literary love!
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Hacking Harvard: By Robin Wasserman
It's the ultimate hack; breaking into the Ivy League.
To get one deadbeat, fully unqualified slacker into the most prestigious school in the country.
Enter:
Eric Roth -- the good guy, the voice of reason.
Max Kim -- the player who made the bet in the first place.
Schwartz -- the kid genius already on the inside...of Harvard, that is.
Lexi -- the beauty-queen valedictorian who insists on getting in the game.
Use only the most undetectable schemes and techno-brilliant skills. Don't break the Hacker's Code. Don't get distracted. Don't get caught. Take down someone who deserves it.
They've got the players, the plot, and soon -- the prize.
It's go time.
Reading Hacking Harvard and sculpting = productive day
I regret that this story, wasn't mine to tell... You can bet that the next one, will be.
Hacking Harvard
Before Descartes, people were always trying to explain the universe like it was alive. The math never made sense, but they just ignored it, because they did not believe the numbers could reveal essential physical truth. The cam Descartes. He eliminated the human element. He boiled the universe down into something that was clean and pure and mechanical.
Robin Wasserman
Numbers. An equation that draws all the elements together, into one simple, unified system. All the irrelevant chaos falls away. The universe resolves itself into order. That is how you recognize a good equation. There is an imperceptible elegance. Perfection. Beauty.
Schwarz,
Hacking Harvard,
Robin Wasserman
Everyone's an exception in their own mind.
Robin Wasserman, Hacking Harvard
Hacking Harvard- Robin Wasserman
I kept having this strange feeling of deja-vu as I began reading Wasserman's novel Hacking Harvard. I still can't figure out where I've seen the beginning part of the plot before (the movie Perfect Score comes to mind?) Anyways, I enjoyed the book a lot. The characters were...okay. I couldn't relate to any of them, or even relate any of them to any of my friends. I could relate to the idea that the college admissions system is flawed, but that is as far as I got.
Even though I couldn't identify with any character, I still really enjoyed the novel. It takes place in Cambridge Mass (my old stomping grounds...yay nostalgia!) and is about a group of high school kids, pulling hacks (not pranks there is a difference) only this one involves Harvard, and their admissions process. They plan to get a slacker in to Harvard.
I was really bothered by the lack of backbone some characters had, okay most of them actually. Sure it makes the story amusing, but it still irked me. The sprinkle of romance was enjoyable and made the story that much more interesting.
It's worth a read, and really makes you think twice about the admissions system. Why did you get in to college where you did?
