The first two points… I wonder what is the relation between “prestigious university” and “quality of your peers”. Seems like it should be positively correlated, but maybe there is some caveat about the quality not being one-dimensional, like maybe rich people go to university X, but technically skilled people to university Y.
The third point, I’d say be aware of the distinction between the things you care about, and the things you have to do for bureaucratic reasons. There may or may not be an overlap between the former and the school lessons.
The fourth and seventh points are basically: some people give bad advice; and for anything you could possibly do, someone will find a rationalization why that specific thing is important (if everything else fails, they can say it makes you more “well-rounded”). But “skills that develop value” does not say how to choose e.g. between a smaller value now or a greater value in future.
The fifth point—depends on what kind of job/mentor you get. It could be much better or much worse that school, and it may be difficult to see the difference; there are many overconfident people giving wrong advice in the industry, too.
The sixth point—clearly, getting fired is not an optimal outcome; if you do not need to complete the school, what are you even doing there?
The first two points… I wonder what is the relation between “prestigious university” and “quality of your peers”. Seems like it should be positively correlated, but maybe there is some caveat about the quality not being one-dimensional, like maybe rich people go to university X, but technically skilled people to university Y.
The third point, I’d say be aware of the distinction between the things you care about, and the things you have to do for bureaucratic reasons. There may or may not be an overlap between the former and the school lessons.
The fourth and seventh points are basically: some people give bad advice; and for anything you could possibly do, someone will find a rationalization why that specific thing is important (if everything else fails, they can say it makes you more “well-rounded”). But “skills that develop value” does not say how to choose e.g. between a smaller value now or a greater value in future.
The fifth point—depends on what kind of job/mentor you get. It could be much better or much worse that school, and it may be difficult to see the difference; there are many overconfident people giving wrong advice in the industry, too.
The sixth point—clearly, getting fired is not an optimal outcome; if you do not need to complete the school, what are you even doing there?