College vs Start-up - It's not about the job
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College vs Start-up - It's not about the job
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#3The main reason I'm usually not a huge fan of the college-no-college discussions is because they're "big identity" discussions (http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html). Most readers of this site made a choice when they were kids or very near to it and the position that they defend tends to reflect the choice, well informed or otherwise, that they made then.
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#4This is a tough one. I sometimes regret choosing to go to college, but it truly changed everything for me. I studied Materials Engineering, and now I'm doing a web startup, but I really believe the college experience, the connections I've made, and the failure in multiple ways in college (not in classes thankfully) has helped me prepare to take the leap to full time entrepreneur.
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#5This is a tough one. I sometimes regret choosing to go to college, but it truly changed everything for me. I studied Materials Engineering, and now I'm doing a web startup, but I really believe the college experience, the connections I've made, and the failure in multiple ways in college (not in classes thankfully) has helped me prepare to take the leap to full time entrepreneur.
Yup... if I knew then what I knew now (a moot point, admittedly), I'd audit classes or do the cheapest possible thing to be associated with the university without paying for it, and simultaneously work on startups/projects.
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#6Small styling comment: the a:hover underline appears in between your border styling and the link itself, which looks a little odd.
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#7Why not both? I mean seriously at school worst case scenario you spend 30 hours a week going to class/doing homework. Thats a worst case scenario where you have 22 credits + homework.
Plenty of time to do a startup on the side, especially in the early stage where you have slow growth.
And its not like you have to become a hermit, you have plenty of time to have a social life
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#8What I think would be cool is if somehow high school could be replaced with college. Allow people to specialize earlier, and hey, if it turns out they're not interested in their specialization, at least they found out 4 years earlier.
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#9I studied electrical engineering and I value my college experience and education. However, at the same time I think college, and school in general, instills a tunnel-vision mentality. I'm sure engineering students have heard it before from their professors and TAs, "Specialize, specialize, specialize!" I eventually enrolled in a PhD program, until I was able to take a step back and I realized that I didn't enjoy what I was studying, but rather I was still in school because while in school I believed I didn't have a choice.
I've always wanted to start my own business. It was at this point that I realized something: I don't want a PhD, I want to hire PhDs. :)
Re: College vs Start-up - It's not about the job
#10Why not both? I mean seriously at school worst case scenario you spend 30 hours a week going to class/doing homework. Thats a worst case scenario where you have 22 credits + homework. Plenty of time to do a startup on the side, especially in the early stage where you have slow growth. And its not like you have to become a hermit, you have plenty of time to have a social life
Well, one obvious downside is a mountain of debt.