1. Funny lady Ellen DeGeneres dropped out of the University of New Orleans after just one semester. Guess she got the last laugh after all.
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3. Media mogul Russell Simmons dropped out of Manhattan City College just shy of finishing his sociology degree.
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4. Brad Pitt was set to be a JOURNALIST when he dropped out of the University of Missouri two weeks before graduation.
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5. Ted Turner, the creator of the 24-hour news cycle, was expelled from Brown University after he was caught with a girl in his room. GASP!
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6. Fierce songstress Natasha Bedingfield withdrew from the University of Greenwich after a year to focus on singing. Good choice.
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7. Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College to become the father of all things Apple.
Fun fact: Before Jobs left Reed College, he took a calligraphy class that later inspired him to include a wide range of fonts (vs. one standard text) on the first Macs. Thus, one could argue computers have fonts because of Steve Jobs.
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8. OOOOPPPPPPPRRRRAAAAAAAAH dropped out of Tennessee State University and seems to be doing all right.
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9. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to pursue his love of poetry. Just kidding, he founded Microsoft.
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10. F. Scott Fitzgerald left Princeton University because of poor grades.
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11. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey dropped out of the University of Texas after seven years… It was probably time to leave at that point.
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12. John Mayer dropped out of Berklee College of Music, only to come back later and major in sex appeal.*
*Fine, you got me — he didn’t actually major in sex appeal, but he might as well have.
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13. Before YOLO, there was POLO. Ralph Lauren left Baruch College after two semesters to serve in the U.S. Army.
Fun fact: Lauren never actually attended fashion school.
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14. Lady Gaga dropped out of NYU after her freshman year, probably because she was busy plotting her world takeover.
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16. Jim Carrey dropped out of high school at just 16. Alllrighty then!
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17. After failing every subject except English, Al Pacino dropped out of his New York high school to pursue acting.
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18. Wolfgang Puck quit school at the ripe young age of 14 to become a cooking apprentice at a hotel.
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19. Walt Disney dropped out of high school at 16, joined the Red Cross, and left for Europe.
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20. Tom Hanks left Sacramento State to intern full time at the Great Lakes Theater Festival. You can’t make that stuff up.
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21. Abraham Lincoln left school at 12 to help his family farm, and then he became THE PRESIDENT.
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22. Tumblr kajillionaire David Karp dropped out of high school at 14 because his mom suggested he should focus on computers. Life lesson: LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER.
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