I left college two months ago because it rewards [...] competition rather than collaboration Let me get this straight -- the whole premise of the Thiel Fellows

I left college two months ago because it rewards [...] competition rather than collaboration Let me get this straight -- the whole premise of the Thiel Fellowship seems to be to get bright kids out of the doldrums of higher education and into the real world where they can start competitive businesses, and yet this kid says he doesn't like college because it rewards competition?! And, I don't really agree with that premise in the first place. If anything, college rewards the appearance of collaboration -- when I was college, I ended up in numerous group projects where at least one person was completely worthless and contributed nothing besides their name on the written report's cover page.