My Situation At College.

Is going to college a waste in my situation?

What do you want to do as a career? What is important to you? How committed are you to reaching your goals?You need to answer these question before you decide if spending over $100K ($250 if a top University). Only you can answer these questions.You're 21. Great! You have a long life to look forward to. IQ doesn't translate well into anything really. Some pretty average or below average do pretty well in life. Don't think that because you did well on one test means too much. (This isn't meant to be condescending. I'm glad you're smart, but most people don't care. Neither do bank accounts.) Drug abuse. I'm sorry that you went through that. I genuinely believe that going through such an event will give you a better perspective. Bad at math…. Seriously, the only one holding you back at math is yourself and those mother-fuckers telling you that it is ‘ok’ to be bad at math. Everyone is BAD at math until she/he has done it enough to understand what math is. That goes for everything. If you didn't read, you'd be bad at reading. If you didn't write, you'd be bad at writing. If you didn't breathe, you get the point. Start doing something. There are resources out there (including free ones). Go read about some practical applications of math. You will surprised yourself with how well you understand math. (I strongly recommend How to Measure Anything by Douglas Hubbard and Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman as more of narratives demonstrating the applications of math. Then look at A Tour of the Calculus by David Berlinski.)

Here's my situation: I'm 19. Dropped out of college. Now own a successful dropshipping business generating around 5k a month and growing. I have 10k saved up and want to move out of my parents' house. I want to move to a city on the west coast. My budget would be up to 3k a month. What would you do?

If that’s 5K a month profit after expenses, that’ll take care of you in an apartment situation or a house with roommates. 3K is a little low nowadays for most cities along the coast of California. It might go a bit further in Portland, Oregon or Seattle.If I were you, I’d keep banking your money and expanding your operation with it. Financially, you’re in an excellent position to grow your business with minimal bills since you’re living at home. Once you go out on your own, the bills just eat up your time, energy, and money, leaving you with little to save and grow a business.Every year that you can be at home while saving and investing a serious chunk of cash into your business puts you in a much better position to enjoy your life when you move out. It sounds like you’re on the right track with your dropshipping business.

Some boys harass me at college. How do I tackle this situation?

Look bro dont take it too far... Just dont.These peoples can never change.. They dont even care about there future.If you keep replying/fighting with them... & something wrong happens with you... College staff & society will equally blame you for there act.Better use brain.-Maintain some distance... -Dont FIGHT back... Just dont... Talk to yo parents or tell official auth. RAGGING is a punishable offence. Dont take that shit man.((Contact colg acti ragging team of ::Contactus:: ))-When in problem... Take help from Seniors instead of classmates(unless its very imp)-Always Be Gentle & Dont loose calm... A way to tackle Any problem in lifeIf ya need help.. just hit me back anytime... But dont be quiet. I hope it dont affect yo studies."aur han kuch nah hoga monday ko tension na le" ;)

With my situation, should I go to a community college or straight to a 4-year university?

I have some good news and some bad news.California is very well organized to facilitate a 2 plus 2 strategy, i.e. two years at a CC followed by a transfer to a four year school. However I would check the articulation agreements between the schools you are targeting to be absolutely sure. (These are the detailed understanding of how the credits are transferred.) Your high school guidance counselor should be very well versed in this, but I would also talk directly to the targeted four year school[s].Now the bad news. Unless your parents are working in California, you will be treated as an out-of-state student and charged as such. I just read the California residency rules on Quora today. http://www.ucop.edu/general-coun...Other states have more lenient residency rules, e.g. one year in state. You may want to consider strategies that involve moving after you graduate high school to cut costs. You might incorporate a gap year—perhaps doing volunteer work to enhance your resume.With your parents help you need to prepare financial plans for each alternative school. The plans should encompass the term of your desired degree.Here is my general advice that I pass on to all future college students:In your case I don’t know where you intend to land upon graduation. In the US half of the graduates end up under employed or unemployed. There just aren’t that many good jobs. It is very important to have a marketable major to improve your odds.I don’t believe that you’ll qualify for Federal Direct loans. If you need loans, you have to get private loans. The interest rates are higher. Using loans for post-secondary education is a risky business. Things don’t always go as planned. Please be careful. The best case scenario is that when you graduate the loans will reduce your flexibility.I hope this helps. Good luck.

In your opinion, what is the best rooming situation in college? For example, hall dorms, suites, etc.

I always had a suite, my first year it was a double, every other year I had a single room to myself with a suite I shared with three other suite mates. I preferred having my own room, I enjoyed the privacy more than anything else.However, who you share your suite with is very important, probably more than anything else. One of my suite mates I’m still fairly good friends with, we keep in contact to this day. Another I never spent too much time with or hardly ever spoke to. He was the ghost of the group he was never in the dorm, and spent most of his time at his girlfriends dorm. The last was a terrible roommate, he wasn’t a bad person, but horribly messy. He never cleaned up after himself, we always had an unspoken rule that whatever we put in the sink we would clean up, we never cleaned up anyone else’s dishes. For instance, if I ate a bowl of cereal, I’d wash my own bowl as well as the utensils, sometimes I’d wash it immediately, other times after class if I was too busy. But my messy suitemate would never wash any of his dishes, and he would always eat food with strong odors, after a few days, sometimes even a week of him not washing, his bowl would stink up the kitchen so we had to wash it. Eventually we got fed up that we began throwing away his kitchen ware because we didn’t want to clean up after him when his dirty dishes stunk the kitchen up. It wasn’t until the end of the year when his parents came to visit that we got a look at his room, it looked like what you’d see on an episode of Horders. You could barely see the carpet, and on his desk was rotten fruit. It was surprising to see, but it made sense given how little he cleaned up after himself.