You Probably Shouldn’t Drop out of College
zach.be · 1,114 words · saved by 1 readers
Especially if you want to be an electrical engineer.
When I meet new people, especially in a professional context, they often ask me about how I got to where I am. Because I’m fairly young, and fairly far along in my chip design career, I think they assume I’m going to tell them some wild story. That I was a child prodigy who was mentored directly by Paul Horowitz. Or that I dropped out, taught myself everything from a handful of textbooks, and then immediately started working on the Tesla Dojo. None of these things are true. They seem a little dismayed when I tell the truth: I was a normal kid in high school. I went to college, and got both…
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