Let us suspend our cynicism and agree that an undergraduate degree is a worthwhile endeavor, if for no other reason than it is required to stand upon the threshold of a middle class life in the United States.
Alan Turing broke the Nazi’s enigma code, invented computer science and in 1952 was faced with the choice of prison or castration for being a homosexual. He choose suicide. Here is a lovely Lego build of his theoretical, binary machine.