<p>Meet new people?</p>
<p>Actually get an education?</p>
<p>So you do not have to work at MacDonalds for the rest of your life?</p>
<p>The drugs?</p>
<p>The bars?</p>
<p>Not to be so bored all the time?</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>Get a way from home?</p>
<p>"You go to college to get a good job."</p>
<p>Tell that to million of college grads who are unemployed.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if you were asking about people's specific reasons or why they thought that people in general go to college, but here are my reasons:</p>
<p>Learning for the enjoyment of learning
Learning so that I can have a productive life/get a job I'm happy with/be able to help people
Gaining independence
Figuring out who I am
Gaining more opportunities
Meeting new people and being able to have a new start socially
Because I don't like any of the other options (e.g. the types of jobs you can get with only a high school degree, the military, etc.)
Being among people more like myself, yet also being around more diversity (I mean more like myself in the sense of similar goals, attitudes towards education, intellectual things, etc.)</p>
<p>so i can have that piece of paper with the degree on it as a fall back plan. that is really the only reason. maybe once i am there it will become more apparent, but i would rather go to an acting conservatory. o well</p>
<p>I strongly enjoy learning.</p>
<p>The drugs, and just to see the look on peoples faces when I tell them my hard ass major.</p>
<p>Because the job I want requires a degree of some sort. I want to be a professor.</p>
<p>Because law school requires that I go to university.</p>
<p>I don't want a BS cog in the machine job that doesn't pay well. I want to be able to at the least be able to live comfortably. This becomes more true by the day considering a bachelors degree is turning into the new high school diploma, and high school diploma is becoming meaningless. I want to do interesting work and not just shuffle papers around or do manual labor.</p>
<p>I'm surrounded by the best people, studying the most interesting stuff, and having the best time of my life.</p>
<p>Social mobility. That's it in a nutshell.</p>
<p>I really enjoy learning my subject (anthropology). I'm not going just for a degree or I would've chosen engineering or something. I still have to get a masters or PhD to really do anything with my degree, so...
The not being stuck in my sh-- hometown plays into it also.
The social aspect is fun too. I like living on my own, having all my friends living nearby and being able to hang out whenever wherever. Meet new people A LOT, even now as a senior, but still have friends I've known since freshman year too.</p>
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<p>A high school graduate can get a job in manufactoring, food service, entry level clerical work, etc. You don't need a bachelor's or even an associate's for these jobs. </p>
<p>I go to college to learn and to gain the skills I need to learn more after college. Hopefully an enjoyable career will follow.</p>
<p>Hoop jump. I want to be a teacher, but I have to go to college to do so. I've done retail. It's awful. Not going back. Anything is better than that. Even college.</p>
<p>Plus I would feel ridiculous sitting on my hands for the next five years waiting for my boyfriend to go through college so we can get married. Plus I'd like to be able to help support my future family with a little more than minimum wage.</p>
<p>Also I can live at home for free if I'm either working or in college. Again, not going back to retail, so that leaves one option....</p>
<p>I soon learned that anything is better than working in construction.</p>
<p>Plus: I'm in love.
With math.</p>
<p>And I'd do anything for love.. :-)</p>
<p>Because I want to be able to quit my ****ty multiple food service jobs and be a teacher. Also college is a great way to network and meet awesome people.</p>
<p>To get a job in the field I want to work in which also happens to pay well or at least well enough.</p>
<p>I am going to college to get an education. I have wanted to go to college for as long as i can remember and i strived to do as well as i could in high school so i could go to college. I want to be something great. Im not going to college because the media says thats what you do after high school, i go because its where i want to be, and what i want to do with my time.</p>
<p>i need sex. that why i go to college.</p>
<p>In serious note: to get an education and test what i made of and plus finding a soulmate (hopefully)
Of course, having the best time of your life :).</p>
<p>really, it's just a preconceived notion i've had since a kid, that after high school, you just go to college. like how you just go to high school after middle school.</p>
<p>precisely what 4321234 said. my parents always wanted me to go to college so i can get a good career and have a much more stable future.</p>
<p>i don't buy into getting an education reason. people can independently study and read books if they wanted to learn about different subjects. professors don't become experts in the fields they're in by simply taking a bunch of classes in their undergrad/grad school careers. they had to read a bunch and do research. those are things anyone can do outside of college. whether they have the discipline to do it on their own is a different story. jmho.</p>