First thought: Perhaps try to transfer to another school? There are great schools out there where you can find motivated, smart students and perhaps even find s

First thought: Perhaps try to transfer to another school? There are great schools out there where you can find motivated, smart students and perhaps even find some great co-founders. Second thought: Stay where you are one more year/semester and use all of the time normally spent partying to create a great open-source project that will act as a resume. There has to be some way for companies to understand the level of complexity you can handle, whether your code is clean and loosely coupled or if it is rookie code, etc. Third thought: Stay in school and find a co-founder and an idea and apply to three-or-four of the top incubator programs before quitting school to see if you can dovetail into something where you can be surrounded by great people. I am, of course, assuming that one year off will turn into two years off, which will turn into just plain giving-up on school. When I think about my four years in college, I realize that I learned how to be a great entrepreneur, how to manage massive complexity, how to be a great leader, etc. outside of my comp sci classes (which were absurdly easy for me since I had momentum going in -- I started with senior-level classes my first year in). That's something that many people doling out "college is a waste of time" advice fail to realize. Working in a startup isn't about slinging code, it's about collaboration, interaction, being put on the spot, learning to respect others in spite of their faults, not being afraid to take a stand in something you believe in, etc. Those are things one can master in college if one prioritizes those outcomes. I once asked my advisor (a big name in computer vision at the time -- I was an AI guy) why the university didn't teach programming on a particular computer in a particular programming language and his response was "you're not here to learn, you're here to learn how to learn," and in my case, that was a lesson I needed.