With one hour of fake studying, you can fail a class, but with 5 hours of real studying you can get a C- or whatever the minimum passing grade is. I have a feeling that you already know this.
Go to class if it's required, but bring a laptop and work on something you like or surf Hacker News. You don't need to pretend to be paying attention unless the teacher has explicitly banned not paying attention by playing on a laptop.
You're ultimately right, of course, your degree is just a piece of paper, especially when it's in philosophy. It has nothing to do with your startup plans. Does that matter? With psychiatric medication, you may very well gain the emotional detachment needed to do something you really don't want to do. I can tell you that the average person is much more capable of doing things they don't like than either you or I. Unfortunately, we in the proletariat do not get to do only things from which we derive happiness. If you do it right, passing college won't even be much more difficult than failing college. It will also be less stressful. This assumes your parents or someone are paying for college. If they aren't, then you should probably just drop out, a philosophy degree is only worth spending someone else's money on.
I took about a year off from school to work on a startup. I did this naively hoping not to return, but I went back and actually just technically graduated, except for the midterm I have in about 3 hours and the other midterm I have in about 7 hours. Email me if you want, I'd be happy to give you more details about my personal situation and/or answer questions and give advice.
Go to class if it's required, but bring a laptop and work on something you like or surf Hacker News. You don't need to pretend to be paying attention unless the teacher has explicitly banned not paying attention by playing on a laptop.
You're ultimately right, of course, your degree is just a piece of paper, especially when it's in philosophy. It has nothing to do with your startup plans. Does that matter? With psychiatric medication, you may very well gain the emotional detachment needed to do something you really don't want to do. I can tell you that the average person is much more capable of doing things they don't like than either you or I. Unfortunately, we in the proletariat do not get to do only things from which we derive happiness. If you do it right, passing college won't even be much more difficult than failing college. It will also be less stressful. This assumes your parents or someone are paying for college. If they aren't, then you should probably just drop out, a philosophy degree is only worth spending someone else's money on.
I took about a year off from school to work on a startup. I did this naively hoping not to return, but I went back and actually just technically graduated, except for the midterm I have in about 3 hours and the other midterm I have in about 7 hours. Email me if you want, I'd be happy to give you more details about my personal situation and/or answer questions and give advice.