Immediately start doing a project way beyond your level, and within 2 weeks you'll learn things that would take college 2 years to teach you.

That's me alright, and it's great once you get a good understanding of those concepts too 😉

You never know if you can walk through a wall until you try i suppose.

Trial by fire is like the best way to learn IMO

Yeah, I made a webshop plugin for WordPresz with PayPal. Don't do that though... Just don't...

College won't learn you how to code. Maybe some basics. There are some bigger concepts that you know on the theory side. But you won't ever implement them in college unless you do it by yourself.
Ive learnt many things in college so far. But if your number 1 goal is to be a good Coder in one line of specific work. Then college isn't necessary or even the right way to get there.

That is almost me either ^^
"Learning by doing"