I achieved the same when on social welfare, spending all day smoking weed and playing Counterstrike over LAN with my flatties. We're still great mates 20 years

I achieved the same when on social welfare, spending all day smoking weed and playing Counterstrike over LAN with my flatties. We're still great mates 20 years on, but we've all got jobs and mortgages these days. Hanging out with people leads to friendships, college is one way to achieve that. I sincerely hope you don't think it's the only way. (Incidentally, the fact that my country supported me when I was deeply depressed and not even trying in life is why I consider it a privilege to pay the top tax rate now. When I was kicked out of home at 15, I lived on charity and shoplifting/stealing from cars/cheque fraud. Once I turned 16, I could get social welfare payments as an unsupported youth, and had no real need to commit any more crimes. That's why they call it social security, it helps keep society secure against poor people.)