[joecalimar]

I'm 21 and live my life pretty much the way the OP suggests, but already I'm having many regrets.

I spend a lot of time on things that interest me and my grades are in the hole. The university has taken back my scholarships. My classmates that do well in the coursework earn more money in scholarships than I do working all summer.

I'm not particularly employable. I've failed to find any work or internships because I don't know C# or Java. Although you may say "those aren't the people you want to work for anyways" rejection is hard and I've been forced to do menial labor to survive.

I find my life is very stressful and my greatest worry is: "What if you worked really hard for 10 years and nothing came out of it?" In my experience it hasn't paid off to buck the boat.

[Ardit20]

That's why his qualifying of his advice of taking risk is excellent. Take risk sure, but not stupid risk. I know now you have passed the time, but in your case to apply the advice would have been: spend time on your start up sure, but don't ignore your degree, things do go wrong more often than not and to have a safety net is not a bad idea at all.