I'm hoping to get famous and get an honorary doctorate for service to Bavaria, as that seems easier to me than finishing the last two semesters.
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Fame is getting less and less valuable in time unfortunately
There are only so many consumers, but the amount of people pumping out content these days is insane.
What kind of a field are you studying in?
Computer science, in the mathematics department.
I actually had good grades, I just got distracted with starting a software company.
Last time, I dropped out, it was to get married and have two kids.
I always have a good excuse, but still.
other people's opinions don't matter. none of them were there in your shoes looking through your eyes to weigh it up
this whole thing about "getting an education" has turned out to be a flagrant scam just like "investing in real estate" - promoted by banks to skim a huge margin off all the dupes that fell for it.
you'd be in no better financial position, after all the debt it would have laid on you. and as you know, in tech, it's experience and confidence that matters. these pieces of paper, the employers know they are being printed like fiat currency.
i worked with a CS graduate last year. i really wondered, what it was they actually taught him at UC Berkeley, that he couldn't have acquired from an internship. i had to explain so many things to him about computer science and software engineering.
doubt
the first bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctorate is free here
They're all free here. Can collect degrees and be a full-time student, forever. Lots of people just spend their whole life studying and never work.
I'm not sure what the point of that is, as you could just teach yourself stuff, but it gets you cheaper bus tickets.
i need deadlines as a stick up my ass to study and push me
but that's more of a me thing
plus the country is so smol here, that so many of the lecturers here are also in the industry too, so it really gives you a shortcut in terms networking and getting yourself out there
I learned a lot during my degree, actually, as it was true applied-math. I would have learned it without the degree, as I'm intellectually insatiable and an autodidact, but it was fun hanging out with the other students and lounging around the campus.
Since I dropped out, all I do is code code code and test test test. No more lounging.