Points or zaochka + work?

Question

IT education

In general, the story is like this.
After the 9th grade I went to college for programming, graduated with honors. I think that I got some kind of base there. In addition to what they gave, I myself read books a la Tanenbaum and googled a lot of various things related to Compuer Science in order to figure everything out. After graduating from college, I realized that I have some knowledge, but I can’t sit down and write something.
I entered the university, on a budget, no problems. As I did, I took up something specific - C #, which I knew before, but weakly. I studied for a year at the university, skipped a lot, that's why I went to C # courses (but I got out at the session and they didn’t kick me out). After them, I myself caught up with books related to .NET and practiced. Compared to what it was a year ago, I realized that I had grown significantly in terms of sharpness, I had an understanding of how the platform works, and various things related to the backend.
Right now I’m sitting and thinking about continuing to study full-time or go to work and transfer to part-time. Will it prevent me from becoming an ENGINEER (with a capital letter :)) and knowing the zen of all algorithms and formal logics? How bad is distance education and is it possible to independently study and delve into those materials (in my spare time and 0th personal) that they will give me there to graduate with a unique background the same or even better than full-time graduates?
A little bit about yourself. More self-taught than taught. I still google everything at home. Not from a rich family, I want to get off my parent's neck and throw them up.
You can't walk like you used to. I look forward to your advice. Maybe someone else had a similar situation or someone you know. How did you do?
I do not consider freelance, because. there is mostly Front-end, but I don’t like typesetting and this is far from programming

Answer 1

The lion's share of the development market is business automation, higher education will never be useful there. It can be useful if you want to develop operating systems, virtual machines, compilers, DBMS, autopilots, artificial intelligence, etc. But it is far from certain that your university will be able to teach this.