The Downside of a Harvard Degree...

For some, too many open doors.

An interesting article that explores what became of three people who dropped out of Harvard 40 years ago.

From Harvard Magazine (via Kottke)...

Remarkably, Levine dropped out only one semester before graduation...

...“I knew I didn’t want to do city planning, to play in that bureaucratic world,” he continues. “I also knew that if I stayed another semester they would hand me a diploma, and that diploma is going to open a whole lot of doors that I don’t want to go through. And I know that I am not real strong, and if I have that key, at some point I’m going to be seduced and want to go through one of those doors. So by not having the diploma, I will remove the temptation. That actually worked out very well, because I was tempted, more than once.”