What is a Drop-out ?

One who leaves the college midway Voluntarily most often Reasons differ from person to person Dropping-out a big decision

Requires courage and character

Factors for Dropping Out

Academic Pressure Time constraints & dull environment Personal problems Financial status & family problems Lack of concentration Parties & broken relationships Square pegs in round holes

Courage
Because you change your profession
Because stop studying for the 1st time Because you step into the oblivion Because now you guide your own sails

Mental State before

Confused Mind
Restless Poor Decision-making power Loneliness

Mental State during

Stress

Family Society Support

Work on his own

Stressful Scenarios for Under-graduates

Mark Zuckerberg
Dropped Out From: Harvard University
Net Worth : $ 17.5 Billion

Founder & CEO , Facebook Inc.

Age : 27

Early Years
Began writing programs as a child
Used BASIC to create Zucknet Developed games for friends Created Synapse in high school Declined offers from AOL and Microsoft

Drop-out Years
Joined Harvard in 2002
Created an uproar due to Facemash Started Facebook from his Dorm Room The Drop-out Moving Facebook to Silicon Valley

Rise and Rise of Facebook

Facebook with over 500 million users
Facebook: 25 billion enterprise Youngest billionaire in the world Facebook: 3rd most populous Zuckerberg -a modern idol

Bill Gates
Dropped Out From: Harvard University Net Worth : $ 59 Billion Chairman and CEO of Microsoft corp. Age : 55

Early Years
Affluent Family : Access to computers Met Paul Allen at Lakeside School Debarred from entering lab Scored 1590/1600 in SAT. Enrolled in Harvard

Drop-out Years
Programming A temptation hard to resist The Article that changed it all Dropped-out to start Microsoft With Paul Allen

Drop-out: The End and The Beginning

The Era of Microsoft

Wrote programs for Apple and IBM. Windows -all time Leader in Software Sales. PC synonymous with Windows . The Richest Man in the World. Philanthropy

Steve Jobs
Dropped Out From: Reed College Net Worth : $ 8.3 Billion

CEO & Co-founder Apple Inc. Pixar Animation Studios

Age : 56

Early Years
The adoption Saga Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs Parents kept their promise Enrolled in Reeds in 1972 Most expensive in US Found the course dull

Drop-out Years
Dropped out after A Semester
Stayed back for next 18 months Attended Calligraphy Classes Base for TypeFonts

Worked to fund trip to India

Spiritual sojourn to India at 19

Birth of Apple
Started Apple in fathers Garage in 1976
Sold his Volkswagen for funding Released Macintosh The 1st Affordable PC

Went public in 1980

Was fired in 1985

Resurgence of Jobs
What next: NeXT and Pixar Apple buys Pixar Jobs back in Apple Uses stringent measures

Revolutionises the technology

Time to say Good-Bye

Apple of my I Tough times ahead Jobs steps down The irreparable loss

He was 56

 Restate a drop-out THE END OR A NEW BEGINNING ? Paragon of success: Role models Everything happens for the best

Inference

Steve Jobs 1955-2011