Mega-VC Peter Thiel's eponymous, anti-college "fellowship" is part of his techno-libertarian fantasy: in the future, no one will need to attend bloated institutions like college. You'll just start a business instead—how about trading an education for topical energy spray?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sOxAK5USB6w
Ben Yu is taking time off from Harvard to pursue "Sprayable Energy," which is exactly what it sounds like: caffeine you spray on your neck like cologne and absorb through your flesh. It's basic premise is that drinking caffeine—in a capsule, coffee, or whatever—is too much. Better to cut out the step of ingestion and just absorb chemicals directly into your bloodstream.
Yu and his partner are looking to raise $15,000 on Indiegogo—meanwhile, we must notes that:
Not that everyone leaves Harvard necessarily goes on to do something worthwhile, but trading time toward a degree for time fundraising for caffeine spray doesn't either.