Re:How I Graduated from Harvard, Turned Down Google, Got a J...
by derekflanzraich on Thursday June 24, 2010 @02:40PM
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Great point, really.
With Harvard, the honest answer is that I didn't truly consider many other options-- I think I'm not the only person who'd say I attended Harvard because it accepted me.
That being said, I did learn a ton (more so from my friends and extracurriculars than academics). Harvard is obviously an academic institution, so technically I paid them for the opportunity to do whatever I wanted & use their own resources. If I didn't want to do something, I didn't. If I wanted to spend all my time building sweet shit, I pretty much did.
Google, in a large way, is built on this model-- but it's still a job, it's still got serious responsibilities, and, most importantly, I wasn't sure I'd learn as much there in four years as I would somewhere else.
With Harvard, the honest answer is that I didn't truly consider many other options-- I think I'm not the only person who'd say I attended Harvard because it accepted me.
That being said, I did learn a ton (more so from my friends and extracurriculars than academics). Harvard is obviously an academic institution, so technically I paid them for the opportunity to do whatever I wanted & use their own resources. If I didn't want to do something, I didn't. If I wanted to spend all my time building sweet shit, I pretty much did.
Google, in a large way, is built on this model-- but it's still a job, it's still got serious responsibilities, and, most importantly, I wasn't sure I'd learn as much there in four years as I would somewhere else.
But I guess we'll see, right?