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To: koan who wrote (171691)	7/15/2009 3:13:08 PM
From: nicewatch	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361354

Attending class took away valuable time from my stock and commodity trading. This was 1996-2000, the dotcom craze was underway and it was hard not to make money trading. It was also an era before blackberries and wifi were common (not that I use those now) so it was always a choice between class and trading, and having an ethernet lan connection back then in the dorm room was a big deal. About 2-2.5 years in, having accumulated a lot of dough and sinking grades, my parents decided I should pay my own way because I was pissing away their tuition expense with bad grades. I said no thanks and they were upset. But they got over it soon as I rode the rest of the internet stock craze up and then back down, and haven't looked back since. Perhaps I should have stuck it out or changed majors to classics as studied in high school (Latin and Greek)... maybe not. Like Harvard, Wharton, UPenn is not exactly a charm school but I discovered that attending undergrad biz school was one of the biggest mistakes I could ever make. Some courses were just simple math and basic equations but some of the other stuff they were preaching was antithetical to what I knew and had experienced as a speculator, (age 15 to now), as a sports card business owner (age 12 to 16) and as a laborer/worker in the family construction business my summers in high school. In high school I was naive enough to think that an institution like Wharton could help me learn how to trade better but I was dead wrong. Imo, they merely imprint a set of skills to engage the corporate world which I also discovered I had little interest in. Don't get me wrong, Wharton is a great place with a lot of very smart professors and competitive students and I did learn something there, but not enough to help me in the areas preferred ergo not enough to hold me back from wandering off on my own and figuring things out on my own in the real world. Like I said, I haven't looked back, lol.