This is exactly what I've discovered over the last month. I just started my Junior year in CpE, and finally understand how unique a university environment is.

This is exactly what I've discovered over the last month. I just started my Junior year in CpE, and finally understand how unique a university environment is. There will be plenty of time down the road to start a company, make some dough. But when else am I going to have free access to a top 500 HPC facility. When am I going to be surrounded by people who will build a remote controlled nerf gun just because it looks fun. Housing is cheap, Tuition is taken care of, and you've got state of the art facilities at your disposal. If you are really going to be a serial entrepreneur, getting a degree may be the best environment to learn that Blub (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) is going to limit what you can and can't do. A degree isn't about learning things you don't know. It's about learning _what_ you don't know. It's where a Basic programmer learns about recursion, and a Java programmer learns about lambdas. It's about getting exposure to theory and new ideas so you can innovate and recognize better ways to solve problems.