Why couldn't I have taken this class in college?

[therookie]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html

ALL right, class, here’s your homework assignment: Devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat.

That was the task for some Stanford students in the fall of 2007, in what became known here as the “Facebook Class.”

No one expected what happened next.

The students ended up getting millions of users for free apps that they designed to run on Facebook. And, as advertising rolled in, some of those students started making far more money than their professors.

Almost overnight, the Facebook Class fired up the careers and fortunes of more than two dozen students and teachers here. It also helped to pioneer a new model of entrepreneurship that has upturned the tech establishment: the lean start-up.

 

[mpbiz]

Good to see some professors taking their heads out of their asses and encouraging some real hustle instead of just the same old shit.

 

[transistor]

Here's another cool class we have... http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/71508-check-out-flyer-i-saw-campus.html

 

[Mahzkrieg]

Good to see some professors taking their heads out of their asses and encouraging some real hustle instead of just the same old shit.

This is precisely what university should be: Get you to do real things while acting as a quality mentor and resource pool for you to achieve those real things.

Instead, it's more or less Highschool Round 2 for most degrees.