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12 Post author: Bryan-san 03 December 2015 11:51PM

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 04 December 2015 04:51:08PM 4 points [-]

As with a lot of things, there is probably not a lot of good generically useful advice here. For example, the advice "do the absolute minimum amount of school work and spend all your time trying to build a startup out of your dorm" is probably terrible advice for 98% of people and great advice for 2%.

I recommend: 1) find a role model who is older than you, but similar in other respects, and whose lifestyle/career/situation seems appealing and 2) imitate his/her college trajectory.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 04 December 2015 07:47:02PM *  0 points [-]

I think this is good advice. Although I think a lot of successful people similar to (generic) "you" were also very lucky.