I dropped out from university...

[avjayarathne]

Bill Gates Dropped Out of Harvard University

ඕකගේ අම්මා හිටියනේ IBM director board එකේ

PS : it's a myth, Bill ගේ අම්මා United Way board එකේ හිටියා, ඒ නිසා IBM chairman එක්ක connection තිබිලා තියෙනවා. නැතුව IBM board එකේ ඉදලා නැහැ

 

[ShiningStar]

Not every dropout turned out to be successful as Bill Gates either....

here is a list

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/50-super-successful-college-dropouts/3/

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ඕකගේ අම්මා හිටියනේ IBM director board එකේ

He doesn't look dumb to me though.
------ Post added on May 26, 2022 at 6:50 PM

 

[imhotep]

here is a list

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/50-super-successful-college-dropouts/3/

But the unsuccessful dropout list is way larger... Probably even too long to publish. Can you find that list?

 

[thaweesha]

Meke inna negative nancy lata kiyanne, mu kothanakavath kiyala nahane gates wa adarseta aran drop out unaya, entapanuwek venna out unaya kiyala. Ubala u drop out wenna hethuvak dannavada? samaharavita uge arthika amarukam nisa ain venna athi, samaharavita danatamath hoda company eheka hoda jobak karana nisa ain venna athi passe education continue karanna hithagena. Uta uge path eke yanna deepalla

උබ මාර කතාවක් නේ බං කියන්නේ. යකෝ අපි බලන් ඉන්නේ මනුස්සයෙක් ගේ වරදක් නැත්නම් හොයාගෙන මවාගෙන ගලපාගෙන හිනා වෙන්න. උබ ඒව සාධාරණීකරණය කරලා මේකේ උන්ගේ ආතල් කඩන්න එපා.

 

[avjayarathne]

He doesn't look dumb to me though.

my bad, the reply updated

 

[ShiningStar]

But the dropout list is way larger... Probably even too long to publish. Can you find that list?

i agree on that

 

[windows_ubuntu]

So I start to learn things myself, I'm a computer security mined guy and this thread will be used to update my daily progress as I learn about how computers work...

Reason for dropping out

 

[Hankook]

මම හිතන්න්නෙ මූ univesity එකෙදි වැටිලා වෙන්න බැරිද

Get well soon

 

[imhotep]

i agree on that

There are certain things that sometimes doesn't work..... For example if you wash your car it rains. But washing your car to make rain sadly doesn't work.
Also if you need to get something clean, then you must make something else dirty. (eg wash your shirt, water gets dirty but shirt gets cleaned) - but you can also make everything dirty without getting anything clean.

 

[Nidarshana_k]

Bill Gates was born into an upper-middle class family that had multiple homes around their home state. While his parents may not have had as much personal wealth, his mother's family was quite wealthy.

His mother was working at IBM. that why Bill got his first project from IBM

 

[ShiningStar]

There are certain things that sometimes doesn't work..... For example if you wash your car it rains. But washing your car to make rain sadly doesn't work.
Also if you need to get something clean, then you must make something else dirty. (eg wash your shirt, water gets dirty but shirt gets cleaned) - but you can also make everything dirty without getting anything clean.

philosophy of @imhotep

 

[zeroday]

what's the reason for dropping out? and in which academic year you dropped out?

money, uni did't get deeper in compi sci i wanted. before end of 1st semster

 

[sihan]

money, uni did't get deeper in compi sci i wanted. before end of 1st semster

okay but the first semester usually doesn't deal with deeper stuff. those materials are done in the final year. I don't know what your plan is? but if you thinking of being an employee in a company you will need a degree. Self-study is great but in Sri Lanka still degree matters.

 

[zeroday]

okay but the first semester usually doesn't deal with deeper stuff. those materials are done in the final year. I don't know what your plan is? but if you thinking of being an employee in a company you will need a degree. Self-study is great but in Sri Lanka still degree matters.

wanna be a security researcher curious abt read teaming, exploit dev, reverse engineering and etc, threre're good resources such as white pprs, RFCs, official docs, man pages, yt, torrents, open-source comp sci degrees and more. I won't work in Sri Lankan IT sector and no such jobs i like to in LK. In Sri Lanka, I'll do full-time bug bounties so i'll have more time to learn how a computer works and how things go wrong.

but if you thinking of being an employee in a company you will need a degree >> job requirements for a pentester https://g.co/kgs/yyFDBi
Self-study is great but in Sri Lanka still degree matters. >> I won't work in Sri Lankan IT sector and no such jobs i like to in LK. In Sri Lanka, I'll do full-time bug bounties so i'll have more time to learn how a computer works and how things go wrong.

the first semester usually doesn't deal with deeper stuff >> yep, but i want to work for google project zero https://www.wired.com/2014/07/google-project-zero/

 

[BinDT]

money, uni did't get deeper in compi sci i wanted. before end of 1st semster

Mokakda uni eka

 

[sirimal1]

if you really wants to learn security best way is to do it yourself. because if you only learn from university course modules (specially in SL) you wont think out of the box as real security expert.

in short run, you'll have hard time getting any real IT job, specially in security domain (because you dont have a degree or anything to prove).

But in long run, if you can find few major exploits and get some bounties from reputed sites such as hackerone.com, recruiters will chase you daily.

ps: i can remember i found my first website exploit in 2016 or something, i emailed it to the CEO of that company, they sent me lots of goodies to my home address (as i said can't accept paypal transfers in SL). self satisfaction when u found some exploit is really worth all the hard work, even if you get anything from it or not.

 

[zeroday]

if you really wants to learn security best way is to do it yourself. because if you only learn from university course modules (specially in SL) you wont think out of the box as real security expert.

in short run, you'll have hard time getting any real IT job, specially in security domain (because you dont have a degree or anything to prove).

But in long run, if you can find few major exploits and get some bounties from reputed sites such as hackerone.com, recruiters will chase you daily.

ps: i can remember i found my first website exploit in 2016 or something, i emailed it to the CEO of that company, they sent me lots of goodies to my home address (as i said can't accept paypal transfers in SL). self satisfaction when u found some exploit is really worth all the hard work, even if you get anything from it or not.

in short run, you'll have hard time getting any real IT job, specially in security domain (because you dont have a degree or anything to prove). >> but certificates will prove?

 

[sirimal1]

in short run, you'll have hard time getting any real IT job, specially in security domain (because you dont have a degree or anything to prove). >> but certificates will prove?

most of major companies have criteria's when short list for interviews, mostly that criteria is a related degree. but if you have lots of certifications + practical achievements, companies might make exception for you.

my advice is, don't get into this field without a degree, if you don't have burning self learning curiosity for it. if your main target is earn money from start (specially with current situation in SL), better play safe and get a recognized IT degree (but never depend on the uni course contents. do self learning whenever posible).

 

[topiyaa]

 

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