Changing the world by trying. Living passionately. And a bit on student life.

MIT releases all of its lectures online for free. Academic Earth has some of the best scholars in the world, their lectures also streamed free to your computer. You can learn more on the Khan Academy that you’ve ever learned in school.

So, really, why are you in school?

Certainly not for knowledge, since you’re deliberately paying much more to follow classes from subpar professors.

Perhaps you’re in school for the credibility that diploma will get you. Yet, the Internet era changes everything we know about credibility. It’s no longer about the formal certificates, but about what you shipped. It’s easier than ever to build a movement, to start a blog and to make change. To build credibility.

But.

You could be in school for the people. And please, stop calling them “contacts.” Your objective could be to develop genuine relationships with people that care enough to disagree with you. To argue and to help you build something great together. You could be in school for the genuine life-changing relationships that will alter the way you see the world.

That changes everything.