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> No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people. I'm 19, and this rings true for me. I put off my admission to MIT to take a "gap year" and
by peter_l_downs 13y ago
> No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
I'm 19, and this rings true for me. I put off my admission to MIT to take a "gap year" and work at a tech startup in SF. The most interesting and enjoyable moments have come from building with and learning from my co-workers, all of whom are brilliant. Other young people reading this: I've found taking a gap year to be a good hedge between "I want to start my own company", "I want to go to university", and "I want to work in the real world and see what that's like."
- sevenironcows 13y agoMe too! Spent my gap year working at an awesome startup in London and learned a crazy amount. Sadly one now needs to work out whether taking up that place at University is worthwhile. For me, whilst staying in "the real world" is an attractive option, going to Uni seems like the choice which will open the most doors long run. Very happy to be proved wrong on that on, however.
- corin_ 13y agoI have no idea what the right answer, if there is one, would be for you, but here's the question that helped for me: Rather than thinking about what opportunities either might give you, looking 10-20 years ahead which option do you think you might most regret chosing?