Directions: Fill in the blanks in the first eight paragraphs of the article "Saying No to College" by Alex Williams. Use your own words and phrases, or scroll to the end of the post to choose from a scrambled list of the words or phrases that were removed. Another option? Read, or listen to someone read, the original article first, then fill in the blanks from memory. Benjamin Goering does not look like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, talk like him or inspire the same controversy. But he does _______ think like him. Two years _______, Mr. Goering was a sophomore at the University of Kansas, studying computer science and philosophy and feeling _______ in crowded lecture halls where the professors did not even know his name. "I wanted to make Web experiences," said Mr. Goering, now 22, and _______ "tools that make the lives of others better." So in the spring of 2010, Mr. Goering _______ the same leap as Mr. Zuckerberg: he dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco to make his mark. He got a ________ as a software engineer at a social-software company, Livefyre, run by a college dropout, where the chief technology officer at the time and a lead engineer were ________ dropouts. None were ______about their lack of a diploma. _______, they were proud of their real-life lessons on the job. "Education isn't a four-year ______," Mr. Goering said. It's a mind-set. The idea that a college diploma is an all-but-mandatory _______ to a successful career is showing fissures. Feeling squeezed by a sagging job market and _______ student debt, a groundswell of university-age heretics are pledging allegiance to new groups like UnCollege, dedicated _______ to "hacking" higher education. _______ by billionaire role models, and empowered by online college courses, they consider themselves a D.I.Y. vanguard, committed to changing the _______ of dropping out from a personal failure to a sensible option, at least for a certain breed of risk-embracing maverick. Risky? Perhaps. But it worked for the founders of Twitter, Tumblr and a little company known as Apple. When Mr. Goering was _______ with his decision, he woke up every morning to a ringtone mash-up that blended electronic tones with snippets of Steve Jobs's 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, in which he advised, "love what you do," "don't settle." Mr. Goering took that as a sign. program frustrated sheepish job apparently mounting Inspired also create ago ticket wrestling took perception Rather For answers, go to the original article. Find more Times fill-ins by visiting our Fill-In category page.