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school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my workingclass parentsamp。 savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldnamp。t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didnamp。t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasnamp。t all romantic. I didnamp。t have a dorm room, so I