Why? To make money, science or prestige (law/medicine)?

Personally it's about the $, and not having to pay for it. Then again, if I was motivated enough I would have gotten into harvard or mit.

To get my mom to support me for another 4 years.

this.

because what else am i going to do? the people i know who aren't in higher education are living at home with their parents, working shitty jobs (or not working at all), and hanging out in the baskin robbins parking lot at night, doing donuts with their souped up shitty cars that they've poured thousands of dollars into for no good reason.

It's not like i had a choice.

I went to college for a number of reasons. The main reason is to put myself in a better position to make more money. Beside that, I went to get away from my town because there is no future here, plus the fact that my parents still help me out is nice. It's also pretty fun and I'm actually getting better grades at college than High School.

I go to a state school so it doesn't cost as much money as a private university or an out of state school.

I'm not, I'm not smart enough.

I enjoy learning things.

sell out.

Why not?

Because I want to be an engineer. I want to learn mathematics and physics, I want to know how things work.

I see some of my friends, who are college dropouts, working at grocery stores. They come back to their apartments, and just toke up and drink. Every single night. How lame is that? I don't want to be that person.

Because I've got nothing better to do :p

It's a requirement of work, I'm proving people (including myself) wrong in suceeding at it, and uh it's something I can be prooud to say I've done and stuck with through til the end.

Then again, if I was motivated enough I would have gotten into harvard or mit.

no you wouldnt have.

lazy piece of shit.

To have enough money at a later age to truly enjoy life and die relatively happy.

To understand mathematics, as it was something of a bugbear for me when I was still in college and I hate when I can't grasp things. Figured what better way? Everyone else has mentioned the usual rigamarole about the social opportunities, the life experience, which are valid as well...

All in all, though - my degree's raison d'être would be the fact that I require a Ph.D. in order to go into research/a career as an academic. If it was doable off of the streets then I'm sure that's what I'd do. Money isn't a massive factor for me, more the chance to perhaps make an impact that'll outlast myself.

Future Job/Free Money/Lazy

Sums it up.
Plus it is good fun. But I had fun when I was living back at home anyway so it isn't why I went.

I enjoy learning things.

This.

And I have nothing else to do...

Also, oppurtunity to take drugs with new people? I'm there!

I went to college to learn more about what was interested in.

It's an entirely different experience with that mindset.

yeah but when you don't know what you're interested in, it becomes painfully frustrating and stressful as you struggle to balance possible interest and learning something that will give you a marketable skill.

yeah but when you don't know what you're interested in, it becomes painfully frustrating and stressful as you struggle to balance possible interest and learning something that will give you a marketable skill.

Take random courses at the community college to find out what you are interested in before going to the university.

I can only imagine. I struggled this year because I have NO IDEA what I wish to pursue.

i go for the vage

I needed a change.

I also think I'm a natural academic.

Because I couldn't think of any job that I could see myself doing that didn't involve some sort of tertiary education.

Funny, I can't see myself ending up in a job that does require a higher education.

Interest. That's pretty much it. I've learned a shitload, and most of it not from my courses. I think I could make good money if I dropped out right now knowing what I know, but I couldn't get anywhere without that EE degree.

Right now I'm working on a couple automotive products (two types of instrument clusters and an ignition part) for myself and a guitar pedal design that I'm carrying over from a CAD course I took last semester.

to go to parties and get laid/ not have to work

I like improving myself intellectually.

I want to be taken seriously. As elitist as this may come across, everyone knows someone with a degree (minimum bachelors) is most likely more intelligent then your average joe.

It gives me an excuse to not work for some shitty landscaping company like all my friends.

I want to be a professional.

Basically, unless you're a tradesman you need to go to college / university if you wish to make your name mean anything.

I didn't want to be another tradesman like all my friends. That shit would drive me insane. Of course, it suits certain people to follow the trades path, but that's not for me. So, since I don't want to be working graveyards at the local paper my whole life, I'm getting a BA in Political Science (though hopefully a MA).

It sucks a bit to see all your friends who've entered a trade making a LOT more money than you will for 4-6 years, but I think it's worth it for the eventual intellectual and financial distinction.

Note: intellectual comes first for a reason. :).

this , but I would like to be a engineer

I figure having a Bachelor's will open a lot of doors for me. I'm not even sure if I want to do anything with the degree though. I'm starting to really like cooking...I might go to culinary school and become a chef. Maybe open a restaurant eventually...

That would be pretty awesome, owning a restaurant. I'd be like a mini-celebrity when I walked into the place.

Didn't you want to be a cop not more than a month ago?

Didn't you want to be a cop not more than a month ago?

I still do.

The possibilities are just expanding. In any case, it would be good to get culinary education and training while I'm young, and then I could come back to it when I retired from police work.

the goal is always to not end up working in a cubicle for 30 years. if you avoid that, no matter what you end up doing, you have succeeded.

i'm more clueless about what kind of career i want to go into now at the end of my first year, than when i started college. the above statement is all i know, so maybe it won't matter to me what i do as long as it isn't that. i'm generally not a picky person so maybe that holds true for this too.

right now i'm looking at being an optometrist. heh.

I'm currently studying Civl & Structural Engineering, the reason why is that it's a career that if you can break into it will mean that you will be earning plenty of money and provide you with amazing work opportunities, as well as travel, if you want that.

Engineering degrees generally open up a hell of a lot of doors, but they are hard to attain.

If it all goes 'tits up' as we'd say over here, then I don't know what I'll do, probably join the armed forces.

If you're a structural engineer that means that you have to believe that the government did 9/11 or that it at least happened nothing like the government account of things.

If you're a structural engineer that means that you have to believe that the government did 9/11 or that it at least happened nothing like the government account of things.

Kyle Broflovski is responsible for 9/11. Duh.

Olivoir

i want to become a bad ass lawyer so that i can effectively become more powerful than everyone else
and then steal thier bitches.
=]

If I was gonna sum it up in 5 reasons:

So I dont have to stay at home any longer
To become more elite knowledge wise
To earn shitloads of money in the future, not $10 an hour
To give me a plan for the next 3 or 4 year
Meet new people, get a 'fresh' start?