If I where to do it again, I would have went to a school that focuses on creativity like MIT or Stanford and not on one of the schools that focus on a degree fo

If I where to do it again, I would have went to a school that focuses on creativity like MIT or Stanford and not on one of the schools that focus on a degree for a degrees sake. I started at a state school and left school for a long time then wound up finishing my degree years later at a private school that is focused on getting students to their degree. As such my educational path felt very industrial. I learned a lot of things about different subject but it was all raw education and not experiences which I think the latter are more valuable. This was mainly due to the environment, had I been in an environment like MIT I probably would not have had the gap. What really burns my ass now is that I have a lot of peers from MIT and I get so aggravated when they say, man you would have had so much fun at MIT you would have fit right in. It bothers me because I know I missed a lot of great opportunities and experiences. On the converse side of it is though, at the time I first went to school, I went to LSU because it was a party school. Which is what made it attractive to me, at the time. If I would have went to MIT at that point in my life I don't know that I would have been able to exploit the benefit of being their. Point being make sure you are going to school for the right reasons or your are just wasting time. That being said, I did not grow up in an environment that promoted entrepreneurship. My family was farmers, commercial fishermen, and mechanics. In this environment there is not a lot of encouragement for starting a business. So the idea never dawned on me until I was well into my 20's and had some experience in the world. I had to learn that other people just like me where doing it, before I ever got the idea that I could do it too. It should stupid, but when you grow up in an environment like that, it is true that it never dawns on you. Not to say that it was a bad environment, in many ways it was awesome growing up on a farm. Anyways, the point being, if I would have had a venture that I wanted to do back in those days, I would have forgone college and used the money to start a venture. Because it could have provided other valuable experiences that cannot be purchased at college.