Hi!, Im from Venezuela so i don't know if my advice can be useful, im an Informatics Egeneer waiting for grade act wich is this October, the thing is ive specialiced myself in program coding, and several programation Languages XCode, C, C++, Basic, Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Gnome, Assembler and Kobol, i also have a honda robotics certification and i am working to perfect my english (i can read it perfectly, understand it spoken in most cases, slang costs a bit but i can understand the basic) while i am studying Chinesee. Thing is my country economy is depressed badly, however my debt is close to zero thanks to a simple set of rules ive forced on myself:
1.- If it pays its good: Sure i could be asking some dude in a restaurant if he liked fries with his stake, that dosen't mean i gave up nor that im not looking for a better job, it just mean that i am working honestly for my dreams.
2.- People are Dicks, I don't have to be people: A Smile opens a thousand doors, my first job was taking the trash and cleaning the floor of a civil engeneers firm, i smiled to people, joked with them and one day when the tech guy did not appeared and they had a problem with the server i asked if i could cheked it and they allowed me, i looked it fixed some problems with the Swiths and i got my first job on the area as tech support. (The Firm later went bankrupt)
3.- Dont be a comformist: You think you can do it better then do so! people in most cases will appreciate it and if not you are losing your time with that company
4.- Never ever lie!: That is self explanatory sincerity is the best weapon, bosses prefer a mediocre sincere person over a lying genius, if you can be a sincere professional then many doors will open.
5.- Always strive to start your own bussiness or the seat in a good executive, or higher position in a Mega! Never work for the company, work for yourself if the company beneficiates from this then both partys are happy.
My advice is take the College only if you are ready to work your ass off, and to push forward non stop 24/7 (of course leave some time for good old fashioned shadowrun game or other hobby or fun thing to do so you don't burn out!