Some great advice. If you treat college as another means to an end, you might become exactly what you wanted to be when you were 17. Interesting people I know all agree that their 17-year-old self couldn't know what their 25 or 30 year-old self wanted.
Therefore, the best path is to get good grades, learn about what interests you and otherwise, just concentrate on becoming your older self well. Sometimes the order of those three is not as important.
Interesting people I know all agree that their 17-year-old self couldn't know what their 25 or 30 year-old self wanted.
Absolutely true. I just mentioned to my little brother yesterday:
"If 27 year old me had stepped out of a portal to 1999 and said 'Patrick, stop fooling around and study that freaking subjunctive case in Spanish, you'll have to explain how it works to someone in ten years in Japanese', I would have told him to take his crazy shapeshifting Terminator self back through the portal."
Therefore, the best path is to get good grades, learn about what interests you and otherwise, just concentrate on becoming your older self well. Sometimes the order of those three is not as important.