十大辍学名人

十大辍学名人！！

谁说大学毕业是学生唯一的出路？谁说学习成绩好就是一切？看看下面这几位连大学都没读完的辍学生，他们的人生就是最好的回答~

10 world's famous college dropouts

In modern society, receiving systematic college education seems a necessary way for success as a graduate from first-class university may always get more opportunities than others.

However, if it is gold, it will shine one day. The Time Magazine printed a list of 10 most successful people in U.S. who never received their sheepskins.

Those talents dared to break off the shackle of traditional perspectives. But without abandoning unremitting efforts, now they have climbed up to the peak of their life in various fields. Following experiences of these successful dropouts may give you some inspiration.

1. Bill Gates

Harvard’s campus paper “Harvard Crimson” called Gates "Harvard's most successful dropout," while the rest of the world preferred to name him “t he world’s richest man” for more than a decade. Now, even not on the top, he is still among the list of the world’s wealthiest people.

Gates entered Harvard in the fall of 1973. Two years later, he dropped out to found Microsoft with friend Paul Allen. And in 2007, he finally received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater.

At the commencement, Gates said, "I'm a bad influence. That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today."

2. Steve Jobs

The iPad, the iPod, even Buzz Lightyear probably wouldn’t have existed if Steve Jobs stayed in school. Due to domestic financial difficulty, Jobs had to drop out of Reed College just after entering for 6 months.

Then he found Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar, which had made appreciable influences on development of modern technique and culture.

However, this wizard thought that his brief college education was not worthless. In a 2005 commencement speech he gave at Stanford University, Jobs credited a calligraphy class he took at Reed College with forming the basis for the typography used in the first Macintosh computer.

3. Frank Lloyd Wright

As the America's most celebrated architect, Wright spent more time on designing colleges rather than attending classes in them. Once spent one year in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then he left for Chicago and became an apprentice of Louis Sullivan, the "father of modernism."

Wright’s splendid resume included more than 500 works, most famous of which are Fallingwater and New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

4. Buckminster Fuller

Expelled from Harvard twice, the early post-dropout period of U.S. architecture and inventor Buckminster Fuller was not going well: He suffered from several unsuccessful ventures and agony of bereavement for his daughter. At the age of 32, Fuller’s life begun to turn. His unorthodox ideas such as the dymaxion (a portmanteau of dynamic maximum tension) house and dymaxion car captivated the public, while his iconic geodesic domes brought him international fame and recognition.

5. James Cameron

The Oscar-winning director James Cameron’s early life had nothing to do with Hollywood. Cameron moved to California from Canada with his family in 1971. He studied physics in Fullerton College not for a long time. After dropping out, Cameron married a waitress and became a blue-collar worker: driving bus for the local school district.

Till 1977, “Star Wars” made Cameron change mind to throw himself into movie industry. In the following 30 years, he created some of the late

20th-century's most stunning (and expensive) science-fiction movies.

6. Mark Zuckerberg

Harvard’s dropout Mark Zuckerberg developed Facebook in his school dorm. Now it has become one of the world’s most popular social networking site. As Facebook's popularity exploded, Zuckerberg chose to leave school while relocated his company to California.

It is proved that his decision was pretty well. According to Forbes, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world, with a 2010 net worth of 4 billion U.S. dollars.

7. Tome Hanks

The renowned Oscar-winner left college to intern full time at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. His experiences in theater laid the foundation for his Hollywood career.

As one of the most powerful movie star, producer, director and writer, Hanks never forgot his past life. In 2009 Hanks helped fund-raise money to help renovate the Cleveland theater where he got his start.

8. Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford, well-known for Star Wars and Indiana Jones, majored in philosophy at Ripon College, but dropped out shortly before graduation. He subsequently played several small roles in some Hollywood productions. Unsatisfied with being a noteless actor, Ford turned to a career in professional carpentry. Almost 10 years later, he got the opportunity to star in George Lucas’ 1977 blockbuster "Star Wars," which gained him an overnight fame.

9. Lady Gaga

This talented artist of character originally named Joanne Angelina Germanottav. Lady Gaga enrolled in famous New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, but dropped out after just a year to pursue her music career full time.

Her 2008 debut album, The Fame, has had the world going gaga for Gaga ever since

10. Tiger Woods

Unlike some other sports talents who gave up college education for the pros, Woods chose to playing amateur golf at Stanford University as a student in economics major. After two years there, Woods turned pro with his "Hello world" announcement, officially ending his collegiate career. Then he became one of the highest-paid athletes in the world, earning more than 100 million U.S. dollars annually at the height of his career.