If you don't go to college, you better damn well educate yourself better than anyone in college will. That means reading big textbooks, working on hard project

If you don't go to college, you better damn well educate yourself better than anyone in college will. That means reading big textbooks, working on hard projects, getting to know more about things outside your field of study. This is what I've done instead of college, but I feel like I've probably studied a lot more computer science than a lot of my friends who did go to college. It's not an easier path, just a different (and possibly cheaper) one.