It depends how you do it. If you have the financial means, you can take a semester off (or register only for one easy credit) and focus 100% on your project dur

It depends how you do it. If you have the financial means, you can take a semester off (or register only for one easy credit) and focus 100% on your project during that time. That would delay your graduation by ~6 months, but that can be worth it. This is what Mark Zuckerberg did before dropping out completely. From [1]: > Mark Zuckerberg strolled back onto the Harvard campus, having taken the semester off to devote full time to his startup, thefacebook.com From [2]: >Despite staying at Harvard for his final year, he’s continued to work on TheFacebook “basically full-time,” he says. (Saverin took only two classes last semester.) [1] http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/11/02/10-years-ago-mark-zuckerberg-said-to-harvard-im-not-coming-back/ http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/11/02/10-years-ago-mark-... [2] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/2/24/business-casual-a-year-ago-mark/ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/2/24/business-casual-...