Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude?
fuzzmeister: I'm a freshman here at Wash U. Have you heard of WUTE? It's a small but growing organization of tech entrepreneurs, check it out at wute.wustl.edu. I met with the head of the club yesterday (he's a computer science professor) and it seems like a great group of people. Also, did you attend the recent IdeaBounce? It's a great way to meet people interested in entrepreneurship; I actually found quite a few people who are just as involved in the technology community as I am. I'd love to talk to you, here's my email: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01vqV9OdbUlDk40CbmVWIumw==...As a whole, though, I do agree with your sentiment: a disheartening number of people here are perfectly content with getting their masters and scoring a steady paycheck at a large corporation. I suspect that the situation may be similar at most any other university, though. I don't see why it would be specific to WUSTL.