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Go to College
Yeah, I know... no shit. Still, it bears repeating. If you want to be a
white-collar success in the digital age, the clearest signal is attendance
at a prestigious undergraduate school. And the distinction matters.
Yes, Zuckerberg, Gates, and Jobs all dropped out of college.
However, you, or your son, are not Mark Zuckerberg. And while none
of them graduated, their college experiences were still instrumental in
their success. Facebook went viral among college students because it
grew out of a real need on campus. Gates spent three years intensely
studying math and programming at Harvard before he started
Microsoft, and he met Steve Ballmer there, the man to whom he’d turn
over the reins of Microsoft a quarter century later. And even Jobs, who
passed through Reed College in an adolescent daze, famously had his
passion for design sparked there. All the bullshit, cost, and stress
parents endure to get, and keep, their kids on the path to a decent
four-year school is still, very much, worth it. College grads make ten