While this is great, it is pretty hard to find students attend all of this regularly. Also, university is where most students will naturally spend their time. I

While this is great, it is pretty hard to find students attend all of this regularly. Also, university is where most students will naturally spend their time. In the US especially, there's a great balance of things happening in the local tech community and at College. I would say you need to be a bit involved in both, but your university should primarily have the environment to allow you to start looking into all of the other things happening around you in the first place.