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At a good college you learn as much from the other students as from your classes, and not only about CS. It's also easier to work on side projects in college.
by pg 14y ago
At a good college you learn as much from the other students as from your classes, and not only about CS.
It's also easier to work on side projects in college.
You should not leave college as early as this unless (a) you start something so successful that it pulls you out, or (b) you are one of the very rare people who are temperamentally unsuited to it.
Unless your college is awful, your longing for SV is a case of the grass being greener on the other side of the fence. SV is full of people who wish they were back in college.
- charleshaanel 14y agoI wish this could be sent to a legion of career planning and placement offices across universities in the US (and Europe too, for that matter). It reminds of an old Einstein saying (paraphrase), "education is what you have when you forget everything you learned in school".