<p>So let's say your family came into a large amount of money (like won the lottery or something). And you knew that you would be let financially for the rest of your life because of it.</p>
<p>Would you still go through all this trouble? Like would you still try as hard in school? Would you still try to go to a top college? Why or why not?</p>
<p>I really think I would still go through HS and try to get into a decent college. The work ethic has been so deeply imbued in me. It’s been tattooed on my brain. </p>
<p>I often find my self contemplating self-studying extra AP courses when I don’t have homework to do … once … I even found myself with an AP Physics and an AP Chemistry book b/c I had little homework for a week. I was taking notes and everything, and I still have about a dozen of pages of notes from the AP Physics book. Reminiscing, I don’t know what the hell I was thinking, because I already have half a dozen other AP courses to contend with … </p>
<p>So yes, I would keep going to school. Nothing is permanent except for change. Why submit yourself to the transient whims of a sum of money sitting in a bank account? </p>
<p>In addition, it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a fool satisfied; it is better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, as J.S. Mill said. I agree with his analysis - I want to be a cultured person, one who appreciates all things intellectual. I don’t want to turn out like Brittney Spears or some trash like her, someone who doesn’t know crap but is rich. </p>
<p>I might let myself go a little bit in school, get some Bs instead of As, but there is almost no way that I’d drop out. What would I do with myself? The extra time, the void that must be filled … my life would be a perfect existential void … :o …</p>
<p>yes, I really like the feeling of getting an A+ and great grades and I really like school</p>
<p>Absolutely. I’ve never been obsessed with top colleges, so my opinion of those would not change. But I couldn’t imagine sitting at home for the rest of my life; I need to do something productive.</p>
<p>And given the extra money, hell, the first thing I’d do would be purchasing a copy of Dr. Chung’s along with several other SAT review books :p. I’m serious. So far, I only own one review book - the BB.</p>
<p>Definitely go to college and do something productive with my life.</p>
<p>Honestly… yes. I have too much pride. Teeeheeehehehe</p>
<p>I’ve think we’ve got the CC-member perspective now … :). </p>
<p>It would be interesting to ask some people at my HS, who don’t peruse CC regularly … lol. </p>
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<p>Probably not. I’d finish high school and be done with school.</p>
<p>I’d change the way I did thing significantly. </p>
<p>Id focus on my sport and acting from a young age, since I had the resources for it I’d try and get a job which I loved. Wouldn’t bother with standard college degress I’d go for professional athlete or actor knowing the worst case scenario is I don’t get it but still have lots of money.</p>
<p>I would probably still want to go ,because i really want to make a difference in the world, and having money might just make it a little bit easier.</p>
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Exactly I would probably switch to online High School to. I would be DONE with people and being fake acting like I care about the other people. </p>
<p>@IceQube lol at how you quoted yourself. Also here is the prospective you are looking for…</p>
<p>I would finish high school and maybe go to a party school, if that</p>
<p>no! at least not immediately! I would at least * try * not going to college - to see if I could do everything i wanted to do without it.</p>
<p>The reason why everyone is so hesitant to take you up on this hypothetical offer is that they have it literally * programmed * into them that college is what is next for them. It’s like all possible futures they’ve ever imagined entail a college education at some prestigious university. So they can’t even consider any other possibilities. </p>
<p>The ironic part? If it turned out that they couldn’t go to college, many would adapt to that reality after sufficient soul-searching, and be just as happy w/o college (that’s what I think, anyway).</p>
<p>Rich peeople without higher ed end up like the people of Jersey Shore.</p>
<p>Your kids might have money, but if you spend lavishly for two decades and have no income, they’ll need educated parents to urge them to go to school. The importance of education is something you don’t realize until you walk with a degree in your hand, a handshake from a job offer, or when you open a newspaper and feel proud you understand a little more how this world works.</p>
<p>Yes, because I am definitely not in it for the money.</p>
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Was that foreal or…?</p>
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Umm wow that’s horribly stereotypical</p>
<p>I’d finish high school, go to a decent college, do drum corps during college, join the military, do a little traveling… oh wait, that’s already my plan. So I guess nothing would change.</p>
<p>Definitely would. lmao, of course, I’d have my parents donate a large sum of money to Harvard first. (-;</p>
<p>I have three younger siblings, plus my mom is going back to school. There are better uses for that money than paying full tuition for a school because I didn’t try. </p>
<p>In terms of going to college… I’m a journalism major, so obviously I’m not in it for the money…haha. I want to go to college!</p>
<p>I’d commit myself to learning what I want to learn rather than to getting a degree. I could see myself becoming a naturalist, assembling an expedition crew, and heading off to the Amazon to find some hidden crystals or something. Maybe I’d build Rapture or Jurassic Park or something.</p>
<p>Also, I’d blow a ton of that money on trips to Amsterdam to be sure.</p>