SuitabookHacking Harvard
Robin Wasserman
- Reading
- Try reading it as a discussion of decisions rather than a guide to technical skills: pause at key choices and consider who bears the consequences if a plan goes wrong.
- Themes
- Rule-breaking and justification: A group plans covertly to get an unqualified person into Harvard and says its target deserves to be taken down. The premise raises questions about whether a claimed good reason can justify deceptive methods, but does not show how the story judges them.
- A wager with rising stakes: The plan begins with a bet, and the blurb warns that the stakes are higher than the group expects. The premise suggests risk may exceed the characters’ expectations, but gives no evidence about the eventual costs or outcome.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes hacking, covert schemes and a wager. If rule-breaking or deception is a point to discuss, the characters’ motives and the possible costs offer a natural opening.