Get heavily involved in a campus organization that suits your interests. If such an organization doesn't exist, start one.
Get involved in something that isn't merely "fun," but fulfilling, too.
Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college?
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#22I'm 21 myself, so I don't know if I qualify as an advice giver but...If you want to meet like minded people, you've started in the right place.
With this in mind, depending on what metropolitan area you are in/near there should be events... like BarCamp [http://barcamp.org/] or Refresh [http://refreshingcities.org/].
Traveling is definitely something I recommend as well.
Re: Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college?
#23Go out with as many women as possible. Once you join the startup life the women will be few and far between.
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#24Do as much extracurricular stuff as you can manage with as much time as you can give it, in whatever interests you. I was also a CS major, and my free time went to theatre. I actually ended up with two degrees, the second one being theatre, so I guess for me it was a little more than extracurricular, but the point stands. Now that I'm out of college and have a wife and job, I find it infinitely more difficult to find…
Not intending to get a job or get married (is the former actually feasible?), but will keep your advice in mind. I'm trying to get out hiking and climbing (I'm in the northeast), but (this) college is so much work.
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#25#1 regret (which I will probably make up, job quitting possibilities) - Not going abroad - Doesn't necessarily mean studying abroad but traveling for month+ outside your home country during inter-school summer vacations
Oops, I meant to give this a +1 and hit the down vote, but it is definitely the most rewarding experience I had until I joined a startup. Travel gives you perspective. Also, spend time making friends with people in many other majors, the wider your horizons the more interesting things become.
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#26Do as much extracurricular stuff as you can manage with as much time as you can give it, in whatever interests you. I was also a CS major, and my free time went to theatre. I actually ended up with two degrees, the second one being theatre, so I guess for me it was a little more than extracurricular, but the point stands. Now that I'm out of college and have a wife and job, I find it infinitely more difficult to find…
Not intending to get a job or get married (is the former actually feasible?), but will keep your advice in mind. I'm trying to get out hiking and climbing (I'm in the northeast), but (this) college is so much work.
Is getting a job feasible? With a CS degree? Yes, it can be done. ;) What were you planning on doing after college other than getting a job?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not intending to get a job or get married (is the former actually feasible?), but will keep your advice in mind. I'm trying to get out hiking and climbing (I'm in the northeast), but (this) college is so much work.
Is getting a job feasible? With a CS degree? Yes, it can be done. ;) What were you planning on doing after college other than getting a job?
No, I meant the other way round - is it feasible not to get a job out of college? I was thinking the startup route, but again, that idea is still the vague-move-to-Valley plan.
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#28Go out with as many women as possible. Once you join the startup life the women will be few and far between.
Nevertheless, I'm quite bored, by the vapid partying (which I refuse to take part in - decimating my social life)
Doesn't seem like he may be too interested in this.
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#29Go out with as many women as possible. Once you join the startup life the women will be few and far between.
Nevertheless, I'm quite bored, by the vapid partying (which I refuse to take part in - decimating my social life) Doesn't seem like he may be too interested in this.
I thought the same for the first two years of college. Beware!
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#30Travel while you can do it cheaply. Take as many electives as far outside your majors as you possibly can without graduating later; college is better at giving you exposure than skills anyway. Make friends that you want to have parties with. Meet people who do things you know nothing about; you'll have fewer chances to do that in the working world.
Drop out if you know you have better things to do with your time, and you can spend time around a large group of people with varied interests anyway.