Advice you don't want to hear: finish school, pile up that debt, kick ass in those classes whose material you could "pick up on your own more easily." The best

Advice you don't want to hear: finish school, pile up that debt, kick ass in those classes whose material you could "pick up on your own more easily." The best kind of debt is school debt. If you leave school, you'll be piling up debt anyway, but not that kind that is easily forgivable. And those connections you're looking for? You get them at school - either by meeting classmates or professors, or showing future employers that diploma. Like someone else mentions on here, the important thing is to learn to finish something. Your list of cool and interesting stuff you've studied is only cool and interesting to us here, not to your potential employers, even if any of us here were your potential employers. Unless you've got somewhere else to go, school is the best place to be. And if you had somewhere else to go, you wouldn't be asking about it online.