IT-Students Learn to Flirt via SMS and Mail

09.01.09 – 16:05

We have a biweekly not compulsory course at the HPI called “Soft-Skills-Kolloquium” where our soft skills are to be trained by presentations of high payed consultants. Sometimes useful, sometimes useless. Next monday there is going to be a talk by some flirt coach. And the HPI-PR-Department did there job by publishing an awesome press release which was well adapted by the press.

hpi press release
n24.de
berliner morgenpost
maerkische allgemeine

Great, so my own institute is still repeating the old cliche of the spotted nerd unable to maintain social contacts. But maybe with a (as the press says: compulsory and long-lasting flirt course) the nerd is going to be able to reproduce someday. Well played!

Update: Even on Tagesthemen.de and Reuters, where international press coverage derives from. And the internal communication about this is going on and on and on. I’m excited about monday

Update 2: Nerd media is also loving the story. Slashdot & Real Life. I’m waiting for Boing Boing Furthermore the class took place today. Accompanied by a disturbing lot of media people (RTL bäh!) the show got boring for me after some minutes because to start a presentation by making fun of others may warm up the majority of the crowd but not me. And if it continues with sexist prototype jokes, I’m just leaving to enjoy my ride back home with a truly nerdy book.