Bill Gates was abolished by Harvard University in 1975, but this is not the greatest regret of the famous laboratory.
On Thursday's question and answer, he revealed that he wanted to study a little more.
“I missed a lot – I never went to a football game or a basketball game or whatever sports Harvard might happen to have,” Gates said.
Harvard graders Danica Gutierrez and Gates Millennium scholar are one of the first people to ask questions among Q & A, Harvard students, Harvard President Alan Garber and Frank president Doyle preside over this question and answer.
“What is something that you regret doing, or maybe not doing, at Harvard?” Gutierrez asked after thanking the Microsoft founder for supporting her education through the Gates Millennium Scholarship.
“Well, I wish I had been more sociable,” Gates said to the audience’s laughter.
He tells how Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, got out of Gates from the same Harvard social group Fox club.
“I was so antisocial I wouldn’t have even known they existed, but Steve Ballmer decided I needed some exposure to, I guess, drinking,” Gates said. “So, I would go to those events and that was highly educational.”
Mr. Ballmer and Gates also attended Harvard University and he compared social butterflies: Fox writer club members, football team managers and two campus publications.
“I wish I had gotten to know more people,” Gates said. “I was just so into being good at the classes and taking lots of classes.”
“You know, it worked out in the end,” he continued.
Mr. Gates is not the one who reconsidered the new experience in the later years and made the only successful success for people how they would be more convenient than books.
“In college, I wish I’d known that it’s less important to focus on what you want to be, and more important to focus on what you want to learn through experience,” Amy Bohutinsky, chief operating officer at Zillow, told Business Insiderin January. “The most interesting and fulfilling careers take lots of left and right turns, and it takes curiosity, openness and occasional failure to create the best opportunities.”
Students are not the only interesting people at college. The author and speaker of Princeton University (Laura Vandekam) said they hoped to network with professors, speakers, and alumni.
“Simply being a student is a great networking opportunity,” Vanderkam told Business Insiderin January.
“People are almost always willing to answer notes from students and meet with students in a way they won’t with ‘normal’ adults. I wish I’d been more proactive about reaching out to people I wanted to meet who were visiting my university, or had gone there, or had some other connection.”
Colleges also provide opportunities to meet people with different backgrounds and perspectives.
“Simply interacting with individuals who are different forces group members to prepare better, to anticipate alternative viewpoints and to expect that reaching consensus will take effort,” wrote Katherine W. Phillips, senior vice dean at Columbia Business School, in Scientific Americanin 2014.
“I wish I mixed around a bit more,” Gates said. “It was a fun time, though, because there was people around you could talk to 24 hours a day and the classes were so interesting and they fed you.
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