[jmtame]

I think the real part of regret comes in the last quote: "Sometimes, I’ll be sitting around on a weekend and think, it’d be fun if I could just write up a software app really quickly."

I doubt it was the school that he misses. It was probably the free time to build whatever he wanted.

[crs]

i'm not sure its the free time he is missing. i would guess he assumes that if he had completed his degree he would have the knowledge base to pick up a language and build quick utilities.