Avoid a huge debt burden for the sake of prestige and college can be four gap years. Do crazy things for course credit. Take professors in all sorts of your int

Avoid a huge debt burden for the sake of prestige and college can be four gap years. Do crazy things for course credit. Take professors in all sorts of your interests out to lunch and ask them questions. Experiment. Mess up. Go around the world in the summer, a semester, or for a year and have it sanctioned. Whatever. All of it can inform your technical or practical pursuits and in some cases change your path. College is Disneyland for hackers and entrepreneurs. If you arrive at this view of it early, there's no reason to delay it.