2. I am a bit worried about that, which is why I want to take advantage of the opportunity now rather than four years from now when it might not be available.
3. I do have family to stay with there.
4. That's definitely true but I personally value money/opportunity/career to dating.
5. My plan right now is to do exactly that. I am a bit worried about how a gap year will affect my scholarship opportunities though.
>Do you want to be an entrepreneur? Do you want to build a product and company, work for startups, or work in enterprise software development?
I want to be an entrepreneur, running my own company on organic growth rather than VC money. I don't have a problem with being acquired but I don't want to be using other peoples' money.
But before I attempt that I want to work as an employee of startups to gain business experience, making mistakes and learning from them while still earning a salary.
Both of my parents are professors so I've had a lot of pressure to choose to go to college but I really appreciate everyone's input on this. I think the best decision is to go to college while simultaneously building side projects, contributing to open source, doing freelance/remote work, etc.
I have a follow-up question, however:
With my qualifications, how likely is it that I could land an internship in San Francisco this coming summer?
I'm currently learning many new (to me) technologies, ramping up my open source activity, and writing a blog. Is there anything else I should to do increase my chances?
>if you are in-state for UT-Austin I doubt it is too expensive.
I am in-state and I have some money in savings so I could probably manage it well.
>nobody knows what will be important 10 years from now
That's one of my fears about going to college. Perhaps it's irrational but I have this feeling that I'll miss out on prime opportunities which might not be available after I graduate.
>The skills you pick up in college, as well as the credentials, may prove to be useful.
I definitely agree with you on that. If I ever want to get into more rigorous software development like machine learning, searching, etc. college would be very valuable.
Depression is an every world problem.