| Why an either-or of dropping out or not? Here are some other choices: - Travel for a semester/year around the world - Side projects apart from school; use those to choose to new classes - Transfer to another school and/or country stretching into new opportunities - Pick up a hobby outside of anything you've ever done before - Volunteer at a hospital or in a research lab, both desperately need technical people - Pursue a thesis of original research with a professor you admire - Challenge yourself with subjects you've never learned before: calligraphy, art history, statistics, horseback riding, etc. You have your whole life to work. But you also have many, many other choices. Being an adult means choosing your own happiness, not what others expect. The challenge is constantly finding a new muse to keep your interests fresh and exciting. You can change who you are many times over in the next decade or two. College just helps to show you the range of possibilities for who you can become. That openness to reinvent yourself becomes much harder as you get older. Use the time you have to find new fountains of inspiration. Those you keep coming back to will linger longest. |
Consider it as a time to sharpen and shape your personality, not so much to gather lots of knowledge. You can do that, too, but it's not the only thing you'll learn in college.
Working for a company will be taking enough of your time later on.
I had a great time at university. I studied abroad for a year in the States (I'm German) and I started my business by accident. It was merely a side project, a hobby. Now, almost 8 years later, it's my main source of income and gives me all the freedom I want.
I didn't plan for it, it just happened, maybe because I was in an environment that allowed time to "play".