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I'd probably just give myself a sports betting almanac. Until you asked that question I never fully appreciated Back to the Future 2.
When Marty goes into the future they should arrive in a future where he went missing (because he's traveling through time). Hence, the whole movie makes absolutely no sense at all.
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Am I allowed to disagree and say that I'm one of the rare males who doesn't find the prospect of sex remotely interesting unless I really care about the girl? I've tried getting shitfaced and hooking up, and even at my drunkest I find the prospect entirely repulsive. As a freshman: I'm not really into the whole "college experience" thing. I've been in better situations before. A friend and I are making our start-up,…
I completely agree, the first year was new and fun. Then the next year, and the following years come, and you realize that 95% of your classmates are still as immature as they were when you met them the first year. Maybe it was just my school. I figured Stanford and other top schools would be different. I have two semesters left and I will be leaving shortly to work on my startup full time.
Dunno about Stanford, but it's basically like that at Amherst, except for a small group of students (perhaps 10% of the student body).
A friend (former cofounder :-) and I were talking about how even though Amherst is the #1 liberal arts college in the country, there were an awful lot of dumb people in his classes. He's found that people were way smarter at his employer (a boutique management consulting firm) and now at HBS.
I had the opposite impression - I thought people were crazy smart at Amherst, and then more average, though still smart, at my employer (a financial software startup). But that was because I was in physics/CS, while he was in econ/psych. I get the feeling that many universities have internal hierarchies, where people in quantitative fields are often more driven than people in the liberal arts.
Buy Google stock. Sell everything before Oct 2008. Profit. In college I would tell myself not to worry as much about grades, but to focus on a few projects of my own. Take more internships in different fields.
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the thing is that in those 4 years you can take it slow. You don't have the added stress of running out of money to pay for rent etc. 1-2 hours per day on a startup in college is no big deal. You have so much free time in college, that you can easily fit in doing a startup, going to class and having a decent social life.
Then what's the point of being young?
And I dunno if its being older talking, but at this point I look back at all that time that I wasted, and feel like I've wasted an opportunity
Value your family and friends more, they are the only ones you know in this world.
Don't listen to Naysayers.
Do that and everything else will follow.