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This advice might sound a bit "old-school". I would recommend you stick with college for at least another year or two. Being a recent graduate myself, I can understand how the stuff you learn in college seems pointless and may not be applicable to what you really want to do/accomplish. However, college really helped me learn how to learn things fast. And that, is a valuable skill to have.

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Yes, learning is most definitely a critical skill! Fortunately, my early education (pre-high school) placed a huge emphasis on learning to love learning, and I spent a great deal of my free time learning from textbooks etc. I've actually realized that Comp Sci isn't as unrelated to industry as I thought, but CS at RPI is worse than a joke. So I might actually want to stay in college specifically _for_ the curriculum.

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