As with a lot of things, there is probably not a lot of good generically useful advice here. For example, the advice “do the absolute minimum amount of school work and spend all your time trying to build a startup out of your dorm” is probably terrible advice for 98% of people and great advice for 2%.
I recommend: 1) find a role model who is older than you, but similar in other respects, and whose lifestyle/career/situation seems appealing and 2) imitate his/her college trajectory.
As with a lot of things, there is probably not a lot of good generically useful advice here. For example, the advice “do the absolute minimum amount of school work and spend all your time trying to build a startup out of your dorm” is probably terrible advice for 98% of people and great advice for 2%.
I recommend: 1) find a role model who is older than you, but similar in other respects, and whose lifestyle/career/situation seems appealing and 2) imitate his/her college trajectory.
I think this is good advice. Although I think a lot of successful people similar to (generic) “you” were also very lucky.
That number seems to be off by orders of magnitude.
The problem is that the world changes. At one point nuclear engineering was an excellent high-potential major.
Spending effort on coding a program for a startup can be useful even if you don’t have a successful startup.