<human>: A little introduction, I'm 17, just about to finish high school. I'm very very VERY shy, for the first week of my 10th grade I didn't speak to anyone at all in my school, people had to approach me or I'd never talk to any of them.
So, by the end of this year I need to decide if I should go to college, and if so, what to study. I'm absolutely in love with astronomy and astrophysics but while doing research on the topic I get quite bored watching the explanations (documentaries and such) even for things that I find extremely interesting (like dark matter and black holes). I'm not very good at math because I'm extremely lazy, so I don't study much at all. I also have the option of going into games development, which is something I like, but I feel like I'd be wasting my intellectual potential. Not to offend any game developers out there, but I've always considered myself smarter than most people (not to be rude or arrogant, but my IQ is quite a bit higher than the average) and I feel like in games development I wouldn't be using my whole potential. Of course I'm no genius, but I'm pretty smart.
Also, to make things even harder, as I've mentioned before, I'm extremely shy and in any case, going into astronomy or games development, I was thinking about studying in the UK, because it's financed by some pretty flexible student loan policies but I'm afraid I might not fit in very well because of my shyness and unwillingness to talk to people on my own.

What should I do? How do I figure out what area to go into and, honestly, will my shyness be debilitating if I go abroad?

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<bot>: I love astronomy but am afraid I'll get bored working on it; also like games development a lot but feel like I'd be wasting my potential; am very shy so I'm afraid of not fitting in an UK college.