Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
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Re: Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
#2I disagree with this entirely.
1. Stop comparing yourself and/or others to Mark Zuckerberg...it's an insult to both parties.
2. School is useful for connections and work ethic, but if you need neither, than there's no reason to cling to the dying ideal that school = security.
3. Any skilled hacker can find enough freelance jobs to support himself (or herself) while he builds a side project.
Re: Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
#3Students you are probably not Mark Zuckerberg, so find yourself who you are! (then decide about school)
Re: Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
#4One commonality between many successful dropouts like Zuckerberg and Gates is that they dropped out to do something specific, not because they were too lazy or undisciplined to finish. Had the right opportunity not come along, I suspect many celebrity dropouts would have cruised to graduation.
Re: Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
#5I find that having the "guts" to leave the school to pursue a personal goal is more important than staying in and wait for thinks to happen.
Re: Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
#6Students: You are probably not Mark Zuckerberg, so pay $200,000 to put up with old-fashioned syllabi and badly-designed courses employing poor methods of evaluation and professors who do their best to make feel as mediocre as possible!
Re: Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
#7I like school, I'm not planning to drop out, but this guy isn't convincing anyone. His basic premise is that school is the "safer" path - something that I don't think the Zuckerbergs of the world have ever found terribly appealing.
Re: Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
#8This is a false dichotomy that sidesteps the question, "Are universities a place where the brightest students, regardless of which campus they are attending, are able to actualize real world goals?"
In many cases, for a person who has real conviction and skill about what it is they do, dropping out is merely the path of least resistance.
For the 'regulars,' the ideal should be for universities to offer the resources to students who are passionate about their field, and not saddle them with administrative barriers in the name of 'getting a degree.'
Re: Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
#9Students: You are probably not Mark Zuckerberg, so pay $200,000 to put up with old-fashioned syllabi and badly-designed courses employing poor methods of evaluation and professors who do their best to make feel as mediocre as possible!
And that's really the question as far as I'm concerned. I think the author would be unquestionably right 10 years ago. But as Universities have become more self aggrandizing in what they teach the value of that education has gone down to the point where people are now questioning whether an education is worth it at all.
I mean 10 years from now will a college education be devalued to the point of not being worth what you paid for it?
I don't know the answer to that but if I were giving the advice I'd tell students to try the startup community while attending an accredited online institution. You could spend a few hours a week doing that and have a degree in 6 years while still chasing your startup dreams.
Re: Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
#10He makes a good point about the value of business experience...
...and then advocates waiting a few years before seeking such experience.