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This article depressed me. First, 'bad' college will make you despair of life, much less the entreprenurial spirit. Second, education in this country is so
by lmcateer 19y ago
This article depressed me.
First, 'bad' college will make you despair of life, much less the entreprenurial spirit.
Second, education in this country is so sorely lacking that to crusade AGAINST getting educated is profoundly depressing.
Third, you get what you give. If you go to college and take a bunch of crap courses and cruise your way through, you are not going to learn anything. You can go to Hicksville State and come out with a deep and profound understanding of mathematics, if you put your back into it, and you can go to Harvard and come out a total loser -- which should really shock no one.
Fourth, and most importantly, I found at college I was surrounded with impassioned people who desperately wanted to make a change in the world and to chase their dreams. The depression sunk in when I entered the working world and got a cube job and watched those hopes and dreams shrivel. So I quit, and I decided to start programming this service. Hopefully, something will come of it, and I'll be able to get a private beta going in the next few weeks before law school starts (which I am attending in the hopes it will help me understand my business better...)
Basically, this makes me sad about whatever college this poor guy went to, obviously it was not very good.
- portLAN 19y ago> to crusade AGAINST getting educated is profoundly depressing. That's pretty much the opposite interpretation of what was intended, I think. Learning is always encouraged. The point was not to throw away your life by joining the cookie-cutter brigade where you get molded to be like everyone else and your originality is stamped out of you so you can be a cubicle drone working for The Man (tm).