If you need me to elaborate, I can point you at statistics. Vancouver has one of the lowest rates of smoking and obesity and one of the highest life expectancies. Surely, that correlates with gorgeous and fit.
Liking Skype and Skype being profitable on the scale neccessary to justify its acquisition price are two different venues.
The goal of skype was to empower the eBay users and drive more users to eBays core auction business. It never materialized. The probelm is that VoIP services have a tendency to try and compete by being free or near free. It's not that there is no cost associated with the technology, but that's the easiest, least creative way to pull customers.
VoIP is evolutionary not revolutionary. They treated it as something revolutionary and made a messy business acquisition that was far outside their realm of expertise.
I transfered from a technical/engineering school (1,500 students) to a more general state university (20,000) where computer science was not an important and the average student's ability was lower.
The real important difference was the curriculum. The state school had a language requirement (14 credit hours) tacked right on; CS is located in the Arts&Science school. It meant I couldn't take more technical electives.
The most important thing about undergrad years is what you can do when you leave, whether it came from a class or hours spent in self-directed study, as I did.
It meant a lot to potential employers when I could say that I have submitted (small) patches to the linux kernel, or wrote my own mini-kernel or compiler. Try writing a thread library or a nifty little VM, or something that is unusual and will stand out.
Way to enforce the stereo type, bro