Sharing some advice from my own experience: 1. Hopefully you know what subject area interests you. You must not already be memorizing here, or are you? 2.

Sharing some advice from my own experience: 1. Hopefully you know what subject area interests you. You must not already be memorizing here, or are you? 2. Now pick subject areas that you find totally uninteresting. First off, how sure are you that ten years down the road you would still find these uninteresting and not regret the choices you are making today? That is exactly what happened for me. More on this below. 3. It is not generally the subject area that is uninteresting. What is uninteresting is the way it is taught, or the book you may be using. I used to find History, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Economics, etc. totally uninteresting till 8th grade. Somebody then taught me a different way of learning, which exactly was not learning by rote. All of a sudden, I was finding majority of it interesting, though still not all. So if needed, find a different book that you can "connect better" to. I generally end up reading preface and first chapters of ten books before I select one that I'll read all the way to the end. 4. Reading books of your choice, following a method of educating yourself of your choice, means twice the work -- since you would still have to be memorizing some stuff just for the exams. Someone told me that real-life education process involves balancing between these two. During my undergrad, my goal then was to get just above average grades, since if I were getting better grades, I could trade off some memorization effort to real understanding effort. That's exactly what I did. By junior year, everybody around knew that while I may not be the best student in terms of grades, I was nevertheless the best student. Even the student with best grades was in agreement as she used to state entirely on her own will. I was often titled the most original thinker amongst the total group of 40+ students. And this was because I spent time and effort avoiding plain memorization. 5. You may find this one hard to swallow. Programming is not education (and your priority at this point should be educating yourself), though computer science is. Programming is just a tool to do things. If nothing else, make yourself a master of mathematics, and treat computer science to be a small branch of it. (Computer science as such is very deeply connected to mathematics to be called a small branch of it, but that's not applicable to you at this stage.) There are pieces of learning coming your way that won't change for coming 100 years, and there are some that would change within two years. You know how to prioritize between them. They used to focus a lot on current events. To me, majority of the "current" issues were much less important than ancient history (since those issues won't remain current in a few months time-frame). 6. Always be ready to step outside of your comfort zone. That practice would help you all your life. (For now, maybe those uninteresting subjects are more interesting than what you thought!)