Ask HN: Where did you go to college?

Today I was denied from my first choice school and I'm anxious to send out my regular decision applications soon. I am interested in studying business, but more specifically entrepreneurship or marketing.

Where did you choose go to college, and why?

Simon's Rock College of Bard.

I was incredibly bored in high school and it is a school designed for bright kids who aren't doing well in high school due to boredom. If I hadn't gotten out when I did, I was on a fast track to a state school w/ lecture classes, more boredom and probably dropping out...

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. It turned out to be a complete dud. I went there to do Communications and Electronic Engineering in 1981 because it was famous (our own MIT) and hard to get into and I was very disappointed. Like two other institutions I have encountered, the good people were vastly outnumbered by the bad ones. I kept having the feeling that we were being taught engineering by a bunch of failed engineers who couldn't hack it in the real world. That turned out to be true when I worked with some of them later on. They were bright enough for rote memory and battling fellow academics but they had no real feeling for what they were doing.

One of my biggest regrets is that I had an opportunity to move to another uni, less famous but still accredited, after my first year (Freshman) and I didn't take it. I eventually dropped out in third year (Junior).

I went to a variety of in-state schools. My advice to people selecting a school for an undergraduate degree is to decide the sort of environment you want to live in for the next four years, then select a school in that type of environment.

There's a Manhattan in New York and in Kansas. Each is the best choice for some people.

University of Mo., ROlla: It sounded cool. University of Wi, Whitewater: Had family nearby Praire State college: Convenient. Indian River Community College: Convenient. Florida Atlantic College: Convenient-Computer Engineering degree at age 36.