Too kool for school, but nowhere else to go
semanticist: If you're still at Edinburgh, I'd recommend discussing this with your DoS, especially if they're an Informatics person. You might be able to find projects being run by AIAI (http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/) or other institutes inside Informatics that are interesting to you and you can contribute to. If nothing else, this will help make contacts and looks good on your CV.There's also the Entrepreneurial Club (http://www.edinburgh-entrepreneur.man.ed.ac.uk/), which again will help you make contacts and give you a place to discuss ideas and ways of achieving them. There's also http://techmeetup.co.uk/, the local $LANGUAGE user groups (I've found http://scotrug.org/ really useful) - there's a huge number of tech/web meet ups in Edinburgh that offer really good opportunities to make connections.If you can afford it at all, I'd definitely recommend finishing your BSc/BEng at Edinburgh - if you're intending to stay in Europe it's a very well respected university, and there's a pretty good geek/tech culture in Edinburgh. I think maybe you just need to push beyond the lectures a bit and make contact with it?