College Isn’t Cutting it — Let’s Go to Mind Petals University!

Monday, March 5, 2007 at 01:54pm by David Askaripour in School

Beep!…Beep!…Beep!… Beep!…. Yup, that your alarm going off in your room. But guess what, the time isn’t 7am, it’s 10am – the time that “you” wanted to wake up. You arise from your bed and take a few steps to your office to start working on your startup. Your roommates/partners, who live in the suite as well, stumble into the office after a long night of partying. For the rest of the day there are no insane classes, there are no professors teaching you theory, there are no boring homework assignments, and no textbooks to read.

Sound like a dream? Well it doesn’t have to be. How many young entrepreneurs out there would rather go to a university that was specifically founded just for them? A university that you can come to not only learn about entrepreneurship, but to also start a company and have the full support of the university to help you get your company off the ground.

A university that basically let’s you do whatever you want – be the creative person that you are without any limiting schedules, without any history, math, English, or biology classes. A university that let’s you unleash yourself and helps coax your innovative skills to their fullest expression.

Wouldn’t it be great if you can choose what classes you wanted to go to on a daily basis – not by semester. Say, for instance, you were in a marketing mood that morning, well then you would go to a branding class taught by a “real” entrepreneur who has run a successful marketing company – not some adjunct — pissed off and underpaid — professor who really doesn’t know a thing about marketing a part from reading the marketing textbook.

You may be reading this article and asking yourself “what the hell is he talking about?” Well, I’m sharing my vision with you – my dream of one day creating a university that is about one thing and one thing only: Entrepreneurship.

I truly think that the world needs such a university. A university built by young entrepreneurs, ran by young entrepreneurs, and built just for young entrepreneurs.

It may seem like an impractical or impossible feat to accomplish for those of you who believe in a strict university education filled with all the liberal arts yaddah…yaddah…and traditional route of having to major in a particular subject; but, for me, this university seems more feasible now than ever before. We need it!

I mean, why not? No, really, why not? If young entrepreneurs are the future of all business and innovation to come, then why not create an environment that will bring out the best in those young entrepreneurs. A university flooded with all sorts of diverse young entrepreneurs to network, brainstorm, innovate, and, let’s not forget… party with!

Such a university would, of course, disrupt the entire education system. Good. That’s exactly what we want! And I’m not just talking about creating “incubators” in a college setting or entrepreneurship camps – yes, those exists. What I am talking about here is a real university for to-be young entrepreneurs and current young entrepreneurs.

How would people be approved? Well, your admission would have to include the idea that you plan to create your company with or your current business. Your entire curriculum would be based around your company and the things that you want to learn to help improve your company.

I think that it’s time to take things into our own hands and create the university that we’ve always dreamed about. No more waiting for the college board “suite and ties” to bring about change. Nah…

For all the young entrepreneurs out there who are absolutely tired of taking those unnecessary classes, taking exams that aren’t teaching you a thing, and are spending your days thinking about your startup instead of attending to your school work and hearing your professor continue to preach theory to prepare you to become a “good employee”, then join me to make such a university a reality.

I’m confident that such a university can be created, even if it starts out in some small office somewhere…. but it can happen! Anyone interested in helping out, then share your ideas, ways that you can contribute, connections that you can share, funding that you can access, etc… I’d like to launch this university sooner than later. Who’s with me?

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