Personally I'm glad I went straight to college, since that's where I made the vast majority of the friends I have today. If I'd waited and fucked around after high school, even if it didn't deter me from getting back to school later, my life probably would've been pretty boring in comparison.
After high school, i am planning on taking a year off, since in that year, me and my family are planning on moving to Australia, to live rest of our lives there, and for sure I'll be attending university in either Sydney or Melbourne.
A lot of my friends did this (it seems to be more common in Canada) and it's worked out for most of them. I'm glad I went straight into it but everyone's situation is different. My parents are paying most of my costs so I didn't need to save too much up. Either way I would recommend coming into it with some money saved, if only to buy food/alcohol/clothes/music while at college.
I'm not sure if I'm going to go straight into college or play on this prep baseball travel team for about a year. Dunno. My mom has been bitching at me to get a job too.
Man I fucking hate noobs. Especially when they're on my team in Starcraft. I was playing Heaven's Last Defense (which is fucking fun. Satan and his minions vs. heaven. It's really hard for both teams, but really fun.) and everyone on my team got their heroes killed (Gabriel, Uriel, etc., including Jesus Christ. Satan is a hero also, as well as certain demons and such.) and 3 of them left, leaving me (Uriel, the only person with a hero left, except not for long.) and Jesus (who had already lost his hero the fucking noob.) to basically hold them off for 15 minutes until God showed up, who is invincible and is pretty much an ensured win for the good guys. I usually play as Satan or on that team, but I wanted a change of pace... and we got fucking owned. The dude who played Jesus didn't even know how to defend the Throne worth a fuck. It was sad.
I'm the same way but I'm in uni. I need my free time to stay sane -- I don't get how people can have double shift weekends and still do well with 5 classes spread over 5 days a week.