Ask HN: I've tried lots of things but haven't finished any.

I have a few pieces of advice:

Your feelings are just normal youthful listlessness. It will pass. You could try getting REALLY DRUNK, but it won't really help. In a year or two, things will be a lot better.

Modeling the stock market is REALLY HARD. No one has done it yet. Don't fret over it. In fact, I'd say don't try.

You will probably have to wait a few more years to get research internships. That's just the way things are. Keep trying though.

Starting a company will get easier as you get more work experience.

Program committees for Academic conferences and Journals are not "double blind". The people reviewing your papers know your name and your institutional affiliation when they review your paper. Getting accepted without someone else's name attached is hard. Just keep at it.

Don't worry about the school you go to. Being an entrepreneur is more about persistence than anything else. Just be stubborn.

What year are you in school? Most of the Code you write as a Freshman is going to suck. You might not know it yet, but it does. Even if your code is the best in the class, it still probably sucks. Just keep hacking (and learning) and you will get better at it.

Blogs are free, both to produce, and to consume. That means the barrier to entry is low, and their are a lot of them. As a product, blogs are commodities. The difference between your blog, and most other blogs, is imperceptible to the average reader.

Think of it like tomatoes. If you grow a small plot of tomatoes in a community garden, what makes your tomatoes different than the one's at the supermarket? People know where the super market is. They don't know where your garden plot is. And even if they did, the only difference between yours and theirs is that you grew yours in a garden. What's the difference between your garden tomatoes and your neighbor's garden tomatoes? Most people don't know.

If you want people to read your blog you have to:

1. Make sure they find out about it

2. Make it very obvious why your blog is different from everyone else's, and why it's worth reading. "But I'm smart and I wrote it" is not an obvious reason, because no one knows who you are.

3. Build something people want. People have to want to read what you are writing. What need does your blog fill?

In any case, you should do 3 things:

1. Focus.

2. Relax.

3. Find your own path.

Sounds like a good summary of most successful people before they became successful.

But if you want to get that real sense of accomplishment, I recommend getting a fairly blue collar job either next summer or at night during the school year.

What you need to figure out is whether you're facing bad luck or you're just not as talented / determined as you'd like to think. In most of these examples, it's somebody else's fault: your professors bailed, your friends bailed, the schools rejected you, etc. One of the reasons people work so hard in startups is that those excuses just melt away once it's all up to you.

>>have more of everything

Including responsibility and lack of freedom. All that stuff they have more of costs.

Is this you?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=838640

If so, why have you changed your username?

If not, read the advice there, because your story sounds very, very familiar.

It reads like an amazing list of accomplishments. Actually though, you have accomplished close to nothing (please read on, I don't want to put you down; I had the same problem). Sure, you are interested in a lot of subjects. That's nice. But that's never going to translate into any success. Stop the dabbling, determine which field you really want to put work into and do that for some years. You can later change fields anyway. But there is no use doing 10-15 things sub-par if you could do a single thing outstandingly.

Stop using dabbling around as an excuse for real, hard work.