I like the ideas I've heard about "putting your money to work for you". Index mutual funds are doing really well right now. Buy into each index and let it grow under compound interest. Since index mutual funds are fairly static, there's not much going on as far as selling stocks goes, so there's very little to trigger capital gains tax. Pile money in there while you're going to school. When you get out of school you'll either continue doing what you're doing or you might have decided to move on. If you decide to move on, you'll have a hell of a nest egg to work with. Spend a year traveling the world and then buy a house for cash.
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"Just as a man who has fallen into a heap of filth ought to seek the great pond of water covered with lotuses, which is near by: even so seek thou for the great deathless lake of Nirvana to wash off the defilement of wrong. If the lake is not sought, it is not the fault of the lake."