IMO, he's using excuses for his inability to work around these restrictions in a creative way. In some ways, college was my personal social-engineering experim

IMO, he's using excuses for his inability to work around these restrictions in a creative way. In some ways, college was my personal social-engineering experiment. Worrying your grade is in and of itself conformity, and if you throw the idea that you need to get a 4.0 to succeed in college out the window, the first two or three points are complete bunk. The theory vs. application thing is mostly bunk too, because you can find the application in college, but you will have to look, ask around, and find someone who is interested in it, and those people aren't always going to be in your academic sphere at the college of engineering. I graduated with a 2.5, made a lot of mistakes, but like I said, college was a huge experiment for me, and I knew what I needed to do to come out ahead and I did. I used and abused every opportunity there to learn what I wanted to learn while getting a degree. I had access to a machine shop, made friends with the shop supervisor, and got to do whatever the hell I wanted on $100,000 CNC machines. I worked for an experiment for professors, suggested projects and got to work on them. I walked to the engineering department and talked to the DSP professor and got explanations on things I didn't understand, even though I wasn't even enrolled in any engineering classes. It's such a cop out to just say college is broken because somebody isn't feeding you what you think you need to be fed. Nobody said you need to get a 4.0 in college to succeed in life, people just assume it, and nobody said things would just come to you when you were there, but people do assume that. College is a collection of amazing resources, and I would think that any true entrepreneur would understand this. I'm not saying that college is for everyone, but I am saying that pretending it's worthless or a waste of time only shows a lack of imagination, creativity and proactivity. Of course, if I had a startup called UnCollege I would say it was worthless too.