Re:Ask HN: Have I wasted my college years by commuting?
by AznHisoka on Friday October 11, 2013 @10:57PM
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I went to NYU as well.. and actually commuted from Queens as well! (Did we go to the same CS classes as well?!!)
When you graduate from college, it's a whole whole different ball game. Most people lose touch with their friends from college, regardless of whether they dormed or not. Everyone gets a job at a boring Corp. Everyone eventually stops partying until 1 AM in the morning. Everyone eventually starts worrying about paying the rent, and all the "adult" things... trust me, by the time you graduated, everyone starts from Step 1.
Now go build a startup, so you can got an escape hatch after you graduate ^_^
Re:Ask HN: Have I wasted my college years by commuting?
by YuriNiyazov on Saturday October 12, 2013 @03:54PM
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my email address is in my profile - email me, we'll chat.
My advice is probably exactly what you'd expect a reasonable, more adult and "mature" person on the internet whom you've never met say: don't do anything drastic. Finish your college at home, maintain your GPA, see if you can maybe land a job, local or remote, while you are still in school so that you have some money ready to be at your disposal once you graduate. As soon as you graduate, move your ass to a major city that is an epicenter of whatever your career happens to be, and live in a cool neighborhood with lots of other recent grads. Hopefully there will already be people you may know - maybe from high school, maybe from college - this will be your starting point for a social circle. Or if not - there's always meetup.com and okcupid.com
Good luck, and don't worry about missed opportunities. I've missed ten times as many more opportunities in my twenties as I did during college. If I had spent a lot of time thinking about all the things I missed out on in life, I'd probably put a bullet into myself a long time ago.