Another direction to look at this: College (and grad school) is a protected time to poke around knowledge and career disciplines and learn to interact with peop

Another direction to look at this: College (and grad school) is a protected time to poke around knowledge and career disciplines and learn to interact with people and build an initial network of people that you have some measure of. Often these people are other students - not all from your year, but they should also be professors, anyone who will talk to you, local or not. It is possible this city and school are failing you. It is possible you are failing (reflection elsewhere about "everyone is an idiot"). You do mention "I haven't met anyone else who is ambitious". If that includes older students, academic departments, professors, school activists, nearby businesses, then yeah you might have hit the jackpot and it might be time to move (to another school).