Balancing poker, social life, and career goals. (Long but pls read)

[Bubu]

Don't dismiss opportunities to make friends in college. True, you may move somewhere else and have to start afresh, but you never know how strong those links will be (from the social, or even as longer term career contacts). Moreover, college is a good opportunity to learn to how make and maintain friendships. Finally you and your college friends now have the freedom to explore your personalities and adventure out. This won't be true later on - even though you may be a freelancing poker pro the people in you age group will have other commitements. You don't want to end up being a socially maladjusted poker (or whatever) geek down the road.
As other people have posted there is more to life than money.