Believe it or not, I wanted to ask this question on the forum because in a similar position. But found this thread. There is a lot of good advice here. I decided to go to college
https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/north-carolina-state-university-at-raleigh/, but I think that I will be doing something else in parallel. The problem is that I am concerned about the question of how to combine, for example, the practice of botany in the garden and preparation for lectures in college. At the same time, this is an open question for me.