Whatever you do, don't pay tuition. Not so long as your money is better spent on ramen and a handful of textbooks. (If you haven't gone through SICP yet, I'd st

Whatever you do, don't pay tuition. Not so long as your money is better spent on ramen and a handful of textbooks. (If you haven't gone through SICP yet, I'd start there. And there's a lot of suggested-book threads to be found via SearchYC.) If you don't have a great idea for a project you can do while living on beans and rice, why not work on one of the crappy ideas? I'd rather interview a person with a running, bug-tracked, version-controlled implementation of a hopelessly naive idea than someone who had sat through some extra courses in elementary CS. +1 to the guy who suggested studying stats. Go back to your psych department and ask them to refer you to some graduates who crunch numbers for a living. Go interview them -- not to ask them for a job, but to ask whether there's something you should study in order to be useful (e.g.: SAS programming).