I met this kid a while ago. He’s going places. Worth a read. Well written and, for his age, I’m proud to call him one of my great “acquaintances” (since I don’t throw around the word friend lightly):
I do not think that universities today are preparing students to face the world, a point that Jim Plummer, the Stanford School of Engineering dean, would debate. A dichotomy has arisen between “college” and “life.” This is not an artificial crevasse I have imposed. I hate drawing this distinction: I think that life and learning should be mutually inclusive. I always operated on this assumption until I went to college and met students who dreaded “life in the real world.”