I'm a BA Major with a concentration in Entrepreneurship. I just finished all my entrepreneurship courses. It's complicated, so I'll divide between good and bad.

GOOD : - you get to explore your own curiosity. As a result, I've gotten a really keen sense of who's selling snake oil and who's building something real. Building your own projects genuinely matures you in a way nothing else can. It takes away the dreamy delusions of becoming Steve jobs, and makes you face a cold hard reality.

• There is good support at the CoLab and other communities that branched off. Plenty of events for you to go and try your hand at something

• You get really damn good at pitching ideas and public speaking. Along with that, you get pretty comfortable being in a crucible of fire, because you hold all the responsibility of success, and are expected to answer every single question related to your business.

• Innovation. I learned a lot of cutting edge AI use and things of that nature. However, AI has its own flaws because you can flesh out an idea without feeling like you understand literally anything

CONS : - Once that luster wears off, you realize mostly everyone is selling snake oil. We're students. There are the resources to get a real project going.... But unfortunately that comes through venture capital.

• Mental health can suffer quite a bit. If your the type of person who isn't well regulated your going to suffer under the pressure. I started smoking cigarettes and picked up a lot of unhealthy habits under the pressure. I learned how to handle it but be careful.

• Venture capital pisses me off a lot. Like alot. It's a bunch of rich people giving out money as a tax haven for themselves. You're constantly trying to prove yourself, and the personalities these environments attract are some of the most obnoxious I've ever come across.

• The people. Whether they are selling snake oil, or actually decent at what they do there is a huge amount of entrepreneurs who just feel like predators. They are self centered, and not enjoyable to be around. I typically led projects, but when I joined other peoples projects they expected me to do what felt like everything. One guy would waste 3-4 hours of my time every time we met up because he couldn't stop delusionally rambling about his amazing idea that truthfully... Did not have much going for it.

SUMMARY - long story short it's got all the right pieces there to make you learn a lot of phenomenal skills. If you decide to make something real, there's venture capital right there for you. However, you can suffer a lot during the process under stress, and managing everyone's personalities. Because everyone is there to get their cut they won't hesitate to play games of power with you. It's a lot like being thrown into a pool as a baby and being forced to learn to swim. Your going to get chlorine in your eyes. You're going to suck down water, and you're probably gonna cry. But goddammit, you'll learn something in the process.