17 year old getting his feet wet with Real Estate Investing

[Aeron Lim]

Hi. I'm a 17 year old, 12th grade high school student in NYC, NY. I've been lurking on the website, gathering information and decided to get into real estate so I made an account today. I decided to go to a Community College to save money financially but since I didn't know what to major in, I've been on a major-searching-craze. Against computer science or finance, I chose finance and decided to look at the real estate business.

I did a little bit of research but i'm still uneducated with the terms experts use. I tried to look for meetup events in NYC but there doesn't seem to be much and even if there is, they are too far from me or they require a fee to attend.

I don't have any friends or family members to ask because my friends are too busy with work and most of them are going after a Nurse, Lawyer, Police, or any profession unrelated to the real estate business. My family is not into real estate so they are not an option for asking. My last option is biggerpockets for the community's help and mentoring.