You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School 438
theodp writes "Over at TechCrunch, Vivek Wadhwa offers some don't-be-a-fool-stay-in-school advice to students that sounds a bit like an old-school Mr. T PSA. TechCrunch CEO Michael Arrington's questioning of whether students need to get any degree or go to college at all may sound appealing — dropouts Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates did do alright for themselves — but Wadhwa gives some good reasons why you should probably take the school-is-for-chumps argument with a grain of salt. 'The harsh reality,' warns Wadhwa, is that for every Zuckerberg, there are a thousand who drop out of college and fail,' and many big companies won't even consider hiring you for that fallback job without a degree. And, believe it or not, you can still become a tech billionaire later in life even if you're cursed with a PhD." Tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson approaches this question slightly differently; here's an analysis he made a few years ago, with the conclusion that the college investment pays off only about half the time.
Don't bother with college (Score:1, Funny)
Seriously, don't bother going to college. University is for dorks. If you're already there, follow your heart and drop out.
It'll give the rest of us less competition. ;-)
Don't be fooled by the Education Lobby (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The better bet (Score:1, Funny)
pretty straightforward. If you can apply to more than 500 colleges and drop out of all of them before the duration of a normal college course, you have a much better chance at success.
Re:Cause and Effect (Score:3, Funny)
The mods dropped out.
Re:It's true (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, are you talking about Gates or Zuckerberg?
Yes.
Re:Define "fail" (Score:2, Funny)
the whole point of your joke was that you were being overly precise, and yet you left out a timezone. you, good sir, fail utterly.
Re:There is a link however... (Score:3, Funny)
Except of course, for the English courses.