I know many of you are students and maybe you’re thinking about getting into a program like computer science and you may already have your mind set, you know I want to do a degree in computer science and maybe you’re in a you’re thinking about quitting, from my experience I did quit a computer science degree about a year and a half ago and I wanted to share with you that it’s been so long now that if I regret that decision and give you a small one.
From my experience, I did drop out of a computer science degree about a year and a half ago, and I wanted to share with you, now that so much time has passed, if I regret that decision, how I got to this point and give you a little bit of what happened in my life when I did decide to drop out.
I finished a two and a half year computer science degree uh, that would be five full semesters and I’m in my third year and if I continue my degree, which is a four year degree, I’ll be done now so I’ll you know my degree probably in the next two weeks.
Assuming I pass my final exams, then what I want to do is take you back to high school and start working our way up and when I decide to make that decision, talk to you about the different factors that led to that decision, why I did decide to drop out, and if I regret it.
In 11th-12th grade I found out that I did want to study computer science and I knew a little bit before that but I had officially decided that yes, I wanted to go to school for computer science and before that I was thinking about like computer engineering or like um, you call this aerospace engineering or all the other interesting fields at least at that time so I did go to school for computer science and at that point in time, in my community and the general opinion and kind of consensus among my friends and my parents was that the only real path to go was that at least in my opinion, people who hadn’t gone to college didn’t have much success.
That view was ingrained in my brain at a very young age that your path was to go to college, and if you went to college, or if you went to, by the way, in Canada, college is kind of I don’t like to say this because college can be great, but at least that’s what it was thought to be at the time anyway, when everyone was saying, go to college, go get a degree, that’s the only way you’re going to be successful. Obviously that’s a very wrong view, I’ll get to that, but that’s what I thought, so I did go into a computer science degree and have no regrets, initially um, you know I learned a lot in the program, that’s right, and when my my youtube profile started to grow, it was the first year of college, I was doing computer science and I had a youtube profile that probably had about 5,000 followers and I started growing that info and building everything so I wasn’t really making much money from it, maybe a couple hundred dollars a month and at that point I didn’t think about being here today filming what I was going to be filming, it wasn’t in my head so you know for about a year I continued to grow this youtube info while I was working on my computer science degree. It was definitely a lot of work and I was getting up early to shoot youtube posts so that it wouldn’t be too loud in my bathroom and I was getting all my homework done and I was doing well but I was working a lot, probably eight to ten hours a day including weekends and now we’re into my second year of college and when I got into my second year of college my message really started to take off and I had probably 40 I had about 40,000 followers, 50,000 followers, and by the time I was a sophomore in college my message grew to over 200,000 followers, so now I’m at a point where I can really see the real revenue that this message is bringing in, I can see the potential of it, and that’s where I got a job at Microsoft as a software engineering intern, so now I’m kind of at the point where I’m starting to realize a lot of things to the point where I really think with a degree it’s possible for me to be considered qualified in computing and I have this resume online and this is my Youtube information and I was able to get a job at Microsoft and I’m starting to have you know kind of I think some career success, you would say I’m doing this so anyway, let’s move on and I’m now entering my third year of college and at this point in time , I was making frankly money, compared to what I had as a regular software engineer, I had all these opportunities and I started working at Argo Experts and started building up as a programming expert.
