It seems like dropping
out of college has become a trend among ‘‘cool kids’’ nowadays. But
what’s so appalling about college that cool kids dropping out of college
and pursuing other things? Since, I don’t know every single reason that
people dropping out of college, I will try to explain why I want to
drop out of college.
When
I became a freshman in 2011, I found out that if I get a decent score
of SAT or TOEFL, there’s a chance of studying in US. So I studied so
much english that I failed at almost all of my college classes. But I
still don’t regret losing one year of college though. If I didn’t spend
too much time on learning english, I wouldn’t be able to understand or
learn from Internet on my own — my english was that bad. So it was the
first step of freeing myself. I did get some harsh lecture on failing at
classes — getting good grades should be my “priority”, from my parents.
There was no US school to accept me. And what did I benefit from that
year? I learned enough english to learn stuffs…
So
you might be probably thinking that I aced all of my classes in my
second year. Unfortunately, no… After receiving my rejection letters one
after another, I was pretty devastated that I even regretted about my
decision of studying in US. But, during that period, I found something
which would keep my mind occupied on other things. It was Udacity, a
MOOC site that has some CS related courses. Everything about that
website was perfect. I was so excited and interested that I would spend
one day completing materials that was designed for a week. So it was the
second step of freeing myself, but I almost lost 2 year of college. I
was pretty sure that I wouldn’t absorb that much knowledge from college.
What a expensive way of being dogmatic. I think the reason I learned so
quickly was that I learned to quench my thirst for knowledge, not to
get praise or approval from teachers and to get a character printed on a
paper.
So that’s how
startups started to interest me. I wanted to create something, which
would help people, using my recently acquired skills. So I made a small
tool for Linux that helps adjusting brightness level based on ambient
light. It ended up featuring on some of the biggest open source webpages
and lot of small ones. It kind of gave me the notion of how internet
brings people closer. So, I decided to start a startup which was to help
geeks to get girls. The idea seemed so great at that time. I could
really get some help from it, since I always had some troubles
communicating with women. So I started developing the web application
with my friend. It was going so well until one day. We didn’t really
plan everything out, so we ended up having some troubles with money
transactions. Since, our country is pretty small, there was no way of
receiving money from other countries, yet we could send money to
anywhere, which is pretty funny. So that startup died because of not
researching enough. We tried to build something like Paypal for our
country, but banks won’t believe us. Because we looked like some typical
college kids. But you may think that I still failing at classes. But
this time I didn’t fail at any class. Because I only chose classes which
are better to learn from someone real. Okay, in a nutshell, I chose all
kind of maths. So that was the third step of freeing myself.
Now
I see no point of spending time in school. Since, I don’t really need
some paper to prove me how dogmatic I am. I decided to start my startup
and this time I promised myself I would be serious and do it right from
the beginning. Yeah, I know that I would make so many mistakes. But I
hope they would turn out to be “good mistakes” to experience like the
previous ones.
