How could I get "left behind" if I drop out. I dont intend at all to be a couch potato playing video games for 2 years . Quite the opposite, I intend to spend hours in libraries reading all sorts of non-fiction, historys, biographies, self-help,political theory, philosophy. Everything I need to know, as you said to know "the system inside out" and also engaging in all sorts of personal devlopment work. How will school benefit me over 2 years of learning what I must learn to "know the system inside out" and more? What use will be a college degree to me? I dont what to be in the field of Science, Technology,Engineeering, or Medicine, so what use is a degree to me with my particular life purpose? I have been told a "degree" is not going to stop me from what I want to do, so why should I spent jumping through hoops to get  a political science degree certification from Y institution when I can learn anything I want about political science without getting that degree in the first place.