Ask HN: Too kool for school, but nowhere else to go

Dear Hacker News, I'm a university student who is interested in leaving school early. I feel that I can learn most of the material more easily on my own, and the high cost is sending me into a lot of debt. But I'm hesitant to just leave for a number of reasons. I'm not sure of my chances of getting the kind of job I'm looking for without a Bachelor's degree. I'd like to do a startup, but I don't have much cash and I would have student loans to pay back. And on top of that, my schooling has been somewhat abnormal, which could complicate things. Any advice? About me: I'm currently 18 years old, with a couple of thousand dollars in the bank, but with nothing but a laptop to my name (not even a car). I left high school at 15 to attend Bard College at Simon's Rock (http://www.simons-rock.edu/), a liberal arts school specifically for early college students. I did well there; I took a lot of CS courses, kept a 3.8, and was the founding president of the Turing Club. At Simon's Rock, you typica