In Senior Seminar, our final exam was to write a paper on where we would be in 10 years. I wrote: "Living in a middle class neighborhood in suburbia, with a fat ugly wife & 2.5 kids, working for the man, wishing I had dropped out of school to try my hand at becoming a rock star."
I got an A.
But I would love to tell you the full story of my buddy who wrote (sarcastically) about moving to L.A. to become the first engineer pron star.
He got a B.
But he did become the CEO of his own multi-million dollar company when he discovered that his idea for a Napster-style-pron-file-sharing service also worked pretty well for sharing regular media content too. $70 million dollars of capital investment later, I think the sting of that B has faded.