Maybe others are not as smart and enlightened as you and foolishly spending money their family could ill-afford on full-time classes that would grant them a career that can barely pay off the costs involved in their education - and Peter Thiel announcement of $100k reward for dropping out could be a wake up call.
Ironically, the vast majority of Thiel fellows were studying subjects which put them on a straightforward track for getting a lucrative career (thus easily justifying the costs involved).
The Thiel Fellowship would be simultaneously much more interesting and controversial if it targeted students at second rate private universities where the value proposition of studying is much murkier.
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Maybe others are not as smart and enlightened as you and foolishly spending money their family could ill-afford on full-time classes that would grant them a career that can barely pay off the costs involved in their education - and Peter Thiel announcement of $100k reward for dropping out could be a wake up call.
Ironically, the vast majority of Thiel fellows were studying subjects which put them on a straightforward track for getting a lucrative career (thus easily justifying the costs involved).
The Thiel Fellowship would be simultaneously much more interesting and controversial if it targeted students at second rate private universities where the value proposition of studying is much murkier.
I doubt all those CEOs and VCs would be interested in someone outside of the MIT etc. circle.