chances for a mediocre student?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Actually, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard a long time before Microsoft got their lucrative contract from IBM to write the operating system for their personal PC. At the time he dropped out--and even for a year thereafter, Microsoft wasn't even doing $500,000 in sales.</p>

<p>If you want the details on how the IBM contract dropped into his lap when another company refused to sign some nondisclosure agreements, check out the program on Microsoft that was done by the Frontline series some years back.</p>

<p>P.S. I should also mention that the GUI was taken from Xerox's Parc group when Xerox scrapped that program--which is where Apple also got the idea for the GUI for their Macintosh Operating System.</p>

<p>And no, I wasn't insinuating that Bill is dropout material--but it should be noted that he made the best of a situation that arose later on--not that this situation existed at the time he dropped out.</p>

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<p>To the kids who believe that good grades + good schools = guaranteed success in life. You need to understand that life is additive. Each thing that we do, each experience that we have, each gift we're handed, each hurdle we have to leap, each friend we make, each person we give a hand too, each roadblock we need to circumvent add to a person. Success is additive and elusive, there is no formula. Be the best person you can be academically, socially, morally and then maybe, just maybe you will be successful. And finally the biggest life lesson, do not ever, under any circumstances ever assume that you cannot learn something from someone. That attitude is career suicide.</p>