http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
This is what his parent would say
You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
Singaporeans are lucky to even have a job compared to third
world asian neighbours, stop being picky
So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out
OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of
the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could
stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin
dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
Looking at how Sim Wong Woo is treated by the govt when he has
only a diploma, if you dont even have a diploma, you would be
selling tissues paper in the streets.
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy
instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster,
every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.
Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal
classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do
this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying
the amount of space between different letter combinations, about
what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical,
artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I
found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my
life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first
Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all
into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography.
If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac
would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced
fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no
personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I
would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal
computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of
course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I
was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten
years later.
Dont be stupid on learning Calligraphy. Its not practical. You
think you can make money from it?? If you cannot find a job
how?
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's
life. Don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results
of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the
courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already
know what you truly want to become. Everything else is
secondary.
The govt needs lots of researchers in bio-medical research. What
study what you like? Must be crazy. Make sure you get all As,take
only those modules that are easy to get As so that you dont get
kicked out of the scholarship by Philip Yeo
