Friends. The best friends of my life were all in my all male dorm at an engineering school. We would geek out in the computer lab on friday nights, having the time of our lives. The bonding that can happen in an environment where you can just relax and let your mind wander is hard to duplicate.
Start a company with someone and at best your lucky to be amicable, because there is no way you can both always be in agreement with such large stakes. Staying up all night to finish a school project? True bonding.
The person with the most friends at the end truly is the winner. And now is the time to find them, so that when your 60 you'll have 40 years of awesome memories to share together. It's far to easy to start a company and slide away from being with or making friends.. that's time you'll never get back.
High school friends are a completely different category. In highschool you meet people because they happen to live near you, but then you go home for dinner and to sleep.
In college you are smushed together with a couple hundred 18 year olds with no parental supervision who all chose the same school as you. And your together 24/7, so you find stupid and highly memorable ways to entertain each other, creating epic lifelong memories, so that even if you don't see each other for 5-10 years you pick up right where you left off. That's bonding.
You can always drop out if it's really not for you. Either way, make sure you have really good friends around you at all times.
I made those same friends at work, though admittedly, work did consist mostly of college kids at that time. Still, college isn't the only way to form those kinds of connections and experiences.
The person with the most friends at the end truly is the winner. And now is the time to find them, so that when your 60 you'll have 40 years of awesome memories to share together. It's far to easy to start a company and slide away from being with or making friends.. that's time you'll never get back.
High school friends are a completely different category. In highschool you meet people because they happen to live near you, but then you go home for dinner and to sleep. In college you are smushed together with a couple hundred 18 year olds with no parental supervision who all chose the same school as you. And your together 24/7, so you find stupid and highly memorable ways to entertain each other, creating epic lifelong memories, so that even if you don't see each other for 5-10 years you pick up right where you left off. That's bonding.
You can always drop out if it's really not for you. Either way, make sure you have really good friends around you at all times.