Yes. Go to college. The only reason that I'm doing the (amazing, fun) things I'm doing now is because I went to college and met some amazing people. People I would not have met in a tiny town in North Carolina. Things I would not have learned. Challenges I would not have been able to rise to.
I hadn't thought about this before, but I wonder how many people on the anti-college bandwagon had the benefit of starting in an environment that provided some of those opportunities that you (and, by chance, I) didn't know about or have access to in small NC towns.
For the record: I just barely managed to finish college because it was too structured for me, so I'm by no means suggesting college is for everybody. It's just that, for some starting points, even the lowest-ranked university can be a big step up.
