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Originally Posted by dgg9 Bill Gates was a college DROPOUT. Oops...that sound you hear is your argument circling the drain. |
Yes we all know that he dropped out of Harvard (mmm.. there's that name again), but quite possibly this had to do with he was enrolled in a Law degree as Harvard wasn't offering Computer Science degree's..
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When Bill went to college the two friends still stayed close. During the summer Bill and Allen went to work fixing computers again. They made about $20,000 over the summer. Bill Gates didn?t want to start a company until he was out of college. Bill Gates attended Harvard but Harvard, didn?t give any degrees in computer science at the time so Bill enrolled in pre-law. Bill was more interested in computers than in law. He spent most of his time in the computer room. He would often fall asleep in class from spending all night in the computer room. They got another job next to the school and they did very well. Bill and his friend Paul were thinking about starting their own computer company, but Bill knew that he would have to quit college if they did. By now, a company made the first personal computer called the Altair. It wasn?t very powerful or fast, but it was the first computer to be used by one person. With this idea, Bill and his friend knew that if they didn?t start a company now, they would fall behind. They quickly adapted the Harvard computer to act like an Altair. So they began writing programs for the Altair.
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While he may have dropped out, which I knew of, I was more referring to the point he had originally been enrolled in Pre-law at Harvard.
which, I suspect was only made available to him, as he was born with a 'silver spoon up his arse', from a affluent family.
As for myself,
Computer Science at Swinburne University of Technology.
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http://www.it.swin.edu.au/default.php
So have you completed Post Graduate level education dogg9 ?