I feel for you, hs sucked for me. I didn't have many friends, actually I'm not sure I had any real friends back then. Frankly, everything before the military sucked. Not that military life is easy, or fun, or glamorous, or any of that stuff. But men bond better through suffering. Ever seen Band of Brothers? Kind of like that, although I haven't got shot at yet... Anyway, I'm not a recruiter, but it will change your life. I'm still in btw, so it's not bad depending on how you look at it and your priorities. However, whether or not you want to be in the military, I'd delay college a little bit and work to get a better grasp on life and figure out what you want to do. No sense wasting money on something you don't even know if you want. Maybe trade school, those are cheaper, leave you with less dept, and pay just as well many times. If you do want to go to college, being older will allow you to focus and avoid the "college experience" which is just drunkenness, cheating women, and garbage." I feel lucky that I avoided all of that, I was there for a mission, accomplished it, and moved on. The people that get sucked into the "college experience," sucks for them... As for women, don't waste your time dude, I'm in my 30's and nothing has changed. Feminism has wrecked the western world, give it 40 years and the whole planet is going to be suffering from women, they are truly making a mess of the world in ways men haven't been able to in over 10,000 years...