I'm doing that right now. I'm in 5 year engineering program where we don't get summers off. So, I took last fall off to work on a startup - LOVED IT. But I real

I'm doing that right now. I'm in 5 year engineering program where we don't get summers off. So, I took last fall off to work on a startup - LOVED IT. But I realized if I continued doing that, I would probably drop out of school. Not wanting to put an upper bound on my academics just yet, I now limit myself to advising other people on startups (I guess some experience is better than none!) and personal projects. I am going to take the next couple of months off to work and make some money. Then I'm gonna use the money to do research with a prof on some very cool tech while spending my free time hacking electronics and maturing this idea I have for a company. But keep in mind that this means I graduate late. Because of all the time I'm spending following my whims, I will graduate at least a year later than my classmates. At the same time, I now have a hell of a resume. But the biggest plus? Now I actually know what I wanna do with my life.