Must do things before you leave Cal

sakky
Fri, 26 May 2006 17:18:11 +0000

Woz graduated from Cal AFTER he had had quit Apple, and he was a student at Cal BEFORE he started Apple. In other words, Woz was at Cal B E F O R E and A F T E R he founded Apple.

Just wanted to spell out the chronology for you, in case you the wikipedia entry you breezed through didn’t make that clear for you.



Nobody is disputing that Woz was a Cal student before he started Apple. But my point is that he dropped out. The implication is that others should drop out in order to achieve success (and then after achieving that success, only then going back to Berkeley to graduate). If you want to follow the Woz example literally, then that’s the conclusion you would have to draw.

And besides, that’s not even the real point. The real point is that it simply opens the door to other schools claiming their dropouts as ‘successful alumni’. Like I said, if Berkeley can claim the success of Apple, then Harvard and Stanford can claim the success of Microsoft, which is a far more successful company than Apple is. What’s fair is fair. I don’t particularly agree when Harvard and Stanford claim Microsoft, but if the the rules of the game are that schools can claim the success of their dropouts, then you have to abide by such rules in all cases.