One of the most important things you can do in college is meet interesting people. Few places on earth have the concentration of high-quality social interactions with as little friction. In a corporate environment, even if the density of smart people is similar, everything you say passes through a professional filter. College is different. Among all the places to find those interactions, student-run VC funds stand out. At EPFL, Founderful Campus and S2S Ventures are in my opinion the best, rivaled only by student engineering projects like the Rocket Team. The reasons are pretty intuitive. Small teams, and a premise that's genuinely exciting to a student ("I get to invest real money?"). Supply and demand does its thing. The work itself also helps: your job is essentially to find all the startups and ambitious people on campus, so you end up talking to hundreds of curious, driven individuals. But the less obvious advantage is the diversity of backgrounds. Someone deep in semiconductors ends up spending their week with someone working on AI safety or theoretical physics. That breadth quietly changes how you think. The real skill you build in these environments is learning to open your mind to what other people know that you don't. That sounds simple, but it's actually hard to develop deliberately. Being surrounded by people with radically different depths of knowledge forces it on you. Unknown unknowns become known unknowns. What makes college special is that these rooms are still accessible. Almost anyone can join a student engineering project. Getting into a student VC is competitive but within reach for anyone willing to spend a semester actively trying new things. And honestly, that process of making yourself into someone who attracts opportunities is probably more valuable than the fund itself. A startup that is genuinely good has no trouble raising. A person who is genuinely curious and driven tends to accumulate luck the same way. That window is shorter than it seems.