I'm starting college soon for Computer Science and Engineering. Any advice on how to learn as much as I can in the classroom setting? Everything I know now I've had to piece together.

Quit college?

JK, I bet you already made your first payment. I can layout some tips:

- Don't listen to the teacher unless you know he knows what he's doing.
- Keep yourself updated on the tech you like to develop, not on the tech they'll force you to develop.
- If a class and teacher are a waste of time and you can't leave it, do your minimum and use the time to improve your skills
- Start uploading your personal projects, code snippets, etc. to GitHub (it'll help a lot more than your actual degree)
- Learn about managing, developing practices, agile, scrum, business and finance so you can start as a manager type dev rather than a grunt plain dev when you graduate
- Don't develop things that won't give you some value in return (be it knowledge, profit or fun) instead practice your managing skills and build a dev team who does it for you when possible.
- Do personal projects, develop your ideas and present them. Doing it in college is easier than outside.

- if your college is full of buroucracy, don't try and change it it'll be more energy efficient to let it go.
- do not take projects that are total scams. These are projects promoted by the university that involve improving or building a system for it for free (curriculum) unless it's a well renowned University or they let you post the code on GitHub.
- start searching for ways to freelance online and start doing so (you may use your dev team as leverage)
- Avoid discussing with professors about merits, some might get jealous and others might want to take advantage of their position I trade work for your grade.
These are some things I've learned (some the hard way) during my bachelor's, I'll be out in around a year and a half; wish someone told me this at the beginning.

Good luck tho.

I'm studying computer science right now, and my advice would be to ignore anything language or framework specific, since it's probably outdated anyway, instead focus on the mathematics and design patterns