[chagataev]

True enough, but it is a unique situation that can be taken advantage of. You can game college campuses all your life but you won't have the same access as living on one. Plus if you are going in for a real degree, you will be as set up for life as you will for anything else. You can still do the stuff you want afterward, be it traveling or whatever. No reason you need to go right from college into a job.

Of course it could be you just have an aversion to institutions and would prefer to do your own thing. But unfortunately in today's hyper-credentialed world there just aren't a lot of options for a guy fresh out of high school.