Why I want to drop out of college

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.