I studied electrical engineering at WPI for 4 years. They were going to push me into a 5th to complete the degree, so I said "heck with this" and dropped out. It was the best decision of my life, and after having paid down $60k of my over $100k in debt, I consider my biggest mistake in life thusfar to be 'going to college' in the first place. I learned lots of cool theoretical stuff with respect to dinking around with electricity and circuits, but absolutely none of my classes prepared me for my 'real world' job of being a sysadmin (for now). I have maybe three people currently in my life that I consider good close personal friends that I met in college, but they're 'friends'. Not 'business colleagues'. My advice? If you're a fairly well-performing autodidact, don't bother with college and the staggering debt that ensues.
