<p>All this stress and drama of school, and trying to get into college. I find it all pointless, except for the fact it is what is going to get me money. Like I use to think seeing all those rich kids who knew they were going to get money and not work, I thought they were SO DUMB! But now I really see it! I wouldn't work either if I was them!</p>
<p>So like is there a reason other than money you go thru all this? As in could you honestly say that if you won the lottery (which is always in the millions at my state), you would still try you best at school?</p>
<p>People still have passions for careers. I’d say money really isn’t that great a factor in my career aspirations, I’d be quite happy with a solid wage as long as it’s a job I’m passionate about.</p>
<p>I do it for money but I just want to be the best; better than everyone else. I want to do a job better than everyone and I want to out earn everyone. I feel my name can be on every building and I can earn every dollar. I would never live off my parents no matter how much they have.</p>
<p>“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”-Albert Einstein</p>
<p>My whole personal statement was about this; I do not wish to post it online, but a portion of it: I live for those “eureka” moments that induce thought, those moments that just open the mind to a world unknown. Those small accomplishments along the great journey of human enlightenment are worth living for. I only have about eighty years to live. I can spend those eighty years trying to save up money and possessions, but they are all worthless at the end, so why even bother? I would much rather spend my days changing and inspiring others. It is my duty to educate and inspire the newer generations and pass on the torch of human endeavors.</p>
<p>My career goal is to be a professor, if you could not pick that up.</p>
<p>I like studying and learning, and academics in general.</p>
<p>Profession wise, I want to become an actuary. To become one, you do not need a specific major, just need to pass some (hard) tests. But I will be going to college simply because I want to study computer engineering.</p>
<p>I also have a long term goal of starting a private school because I have studied in two countries and both have disappointed me in terms of a proper education system. Having a degree would be in general a good idea.</p>
<p>Money is not a big factor, I do not plan anything more than a simpler-than-average life. However I do tend to lean towards careers that pay good because of some of my goals in life.</p>
<p>In conclusion, the reason for stressing out so much about colleges is that for me, it is not stress. It is simply something that I have always done, and I cannot imagine myself doing something “normal”, ask any of my friends, they will tell you the same.</p>
<p>Of course I would work hard, to think any less is tantamount to despair. I want to go into agricultural engineering, in order to help create GE crops for the third world. To develop a pejorative attitude to learning, scholarship, and academics is tantamount to despair, in my humble opinion. </p>
<p>If your only goal is to make money, chances are, you will fall before you even start. Develop a passion, find something beyond such an instrumental value to strive for.</p>
<p>The best reason to go to college is to find yourself. The second best reason is that it is the best place to pick up a date who is sober from the ages of 18-23</p>
<p>Lol love how the responses get more and more less complex as you go down. </p>
<p>Anyway I guess I just don’t have a passion for anything anymore. All the things I love to do you can’t make a good wage off of. Personally if I won the lottery I would stop working and trying then whatever is left when I die go to charity</p>
<p>I don’t go to school and all for money. hell, I know that it’s not my responsiblity to provide for myself (cultural thing, no one start bashing it please, it’s a long story and I’m not going to explain it), so I couldn’t care less about getting a degree in a good job market. I just love to learn. the experience can be great. </p>
<p>of course, it’s nice to have a degree as a back-up in case I do ever have to provide for myself (life isn’t risk-free after all), but even if it didn’t act as a back-up I’ld still go to college.</p>
<p>I do it because I think learning is the most important thing in life, and although it is super stressful at times, I get a sort of sick pleasure out of it. Money doesn’t matter to me.</p>