Why did Steve Jobs drop out of college?
“It started before I was born,” he said, explaining the circumstances of his adoption by working-class parents. 17 years later he spent six months at Reed College but couldn’t see the value in it: I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. He called the move: “pretty scary at the time,” but said, “looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.” Why? Because after he dropped out of school Steve took a calligraphy class: 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
