Ivory towers ubber alles

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jun 28 15:15:28 2000

>Will, my boy, It's absolutely for certain you'll regret that you're not in
>college for the rest of your life. That's true even if you eventually do go
>back and get a degree. The experience will be different and you've no way
>to reclaim it. Since you've little or no chance of getting most of these
>old machines you gather up and running, it's unlikely you'll learn much from
>them. Unless it's your goal eventually to become a scrap dealer, I'd say
>you're making what's probably the biggest and most far-reaching mistake you
>could possibly make.

Sometimes college doesn't work out, and knowing when it ISN"T time for you
to be there is good. I quit school after 5 years (note I didn't say five
focused single track years), got married and worked for 3 years, then went
back part time and ground out the quickest degree I could (BSCS instead of
physics) in a little over a year.

Some of us, and my guess is that this list is a collecting point, don't fit
well as corporate pegs. If I ever get the desire to have all my square
edges ground off and start kissing some moron's butt for a paycheck I will
be very surprised.
Received on Wed Jun 28 2000 - 15:15:28 BST

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