Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, gave a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005 where he shared three stories from his life. The first was about "connecting the dots" in his life and how he dropped out of college after 6 months but stayed for another year and a half. He talked about how his adoption caused his parents to promise he would go to college one day. He then went to college 17 years later but couldn't see the value since he didn't know what he wanted to do, so he dropped out. He realized later it was one of his best decisions as it allowed him to take classes he was interested in.