Cheat To Win

ERICA
I’m sorry you’re not sufficiently impressed with my education.

MARK
And I’m sorry I don’t have a rowboat so we’re even.

ERICA
I think we should just be friends.

MARK
I don’t want friends.

ERICA
I was being polite, I have no intention of being friends with you.

MARK
I’m under some pressure right now with my OS class and if we could just order food. I think we should—

[ERICA takes MARK’s hand and looks at him tenderly…]

ERICA (close)
You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole.

Check out the courtyard in front of my office today.

MARK
I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there’s no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.

[beat]

MARK
Did I adequately answer your condescending question?

Harvard Yard in the snow.

Never change, Cambridge.

First snow.

Things like this make so proud to work at Harvard.

Seen near Quincy House at Harvard on 11/28/2012.

All of the applause.

Brought my B+ game to work on Monday with my outfit.

Why does Harvard schedule the best stuff when normal people are working?

Is Harvard trying to create animal cracker centipedes?

I took this photo outside HBS but consider it apropos for my trip to Nashville.

But you’re kidding though, right?  Someone created this and then actually requested to be my friend?

Lowell House at night. Gorgeous.

Just another apocalyptic storm ready to descend on Cambridge…