<p>i want to go to college to be exposed to intellectual students and teachers. In high school I have never been expected or was it required for me to think. I am tired of that and that is why i want to go to college</p>
<p>to go to rippers</p>
<p>and get a job i guess</p>
<p>To have money to blow on strippers.</p>
<p>And education's pretty cool, I guess.</p>
<p>Eh, it's mostly been said already. Meeting cool people + learning about things I actually want to learn about + independence = growing as a person, as an artist, etc.</p>
<p>Thats what im talkin about Duper! Nice to see somebody not so serious on this website,I appreciate the humor.</p>
<p>to be at a place that’s less like prison than high school
and you know, intellectual curiosity and all</p>
<p>I went to find opportunities and discover professions. It went well.</p>
<p>You can get all kinds of things from college, but it’s not as different from high school as you think. Academically, it may be less stimulating and a bit easier, depending on the high school you went to.</p>
<p>People, too, are people. The kind of people you knew in high school will be there, too. The reason people tend to make better friends in college than in high school? Part of it is just the situation, another part of it is that you just grow up and stop finding stupid reasons to dislike people (i.e. if you were with the same people from high school in college, your perception of them would change).</p>
<p>None of these are bad reasons, though. Just a warning that it might not be what you expect.</p>
<p>Well I originally wanted to go to college because I had to in order to become a doctor (which is true) and my family always told that I had to in order to be successful in life, and everyone will look down upon me if I dont.</p>
<p>But now that Im older and have more control of my life, I want to go to college in order to finally participate in the intellectually stimulating environment I was deprived of for the last 17 years of my life. Also, I can finally meet more overachieving people like me who are passionate about the world, life, and learning and not people who just want to party and/or just pass by life without thinking about the bigger purpose. </p>
<p>Lastly, I want to get a chance to reinvent myself and become the person I wanted to be and finally achieve my dream of living in the city so at least I will never be bored on my downtime.</p>
<p>You will meet a lot of people who just want to party and aren’t passionate or overachieving. A lot of them will be good people, too. You will hopefully, then, meet people who understand it’s best not to judge and generalize like that.</p>
<p>You will take many classes that won’t stimulate you intellectually, and in hindsight, you’ll realize you shouldn’t have gone through those first 17 years so surly about how education wasn’t good enough for you.</p>
<p>You can be bored in a city. Trust me. You can also feel alone in a city and afraid in a city. Not trying to crush your dreams, just trying to bring you to the reality that the city will not do things for you. You can find things to do in the city, and hopefully find people to do them with, but you won’t be overloaded with “easy” ways to alleviate boredom just because you live in an area.</p>
<p>I’m sure I sound like a jerk in this post, but hey, I’ve been through college. I don’t want people getting there and feeling letdown.</p>
<p>^well Im kinda disappointed now. But at least I know the truth. BTW what college did you go to anyways?</p>
<p>I’ve worked to hard during HS just to end up at some state school.</p>
<p>College is connective. College is where I can meet other intellectuals who want to change the world. College is infinitely different from my rural, low-standards high school that just hopes students will graduate. In essence, college is the change of environment that will finally allow me to unlock my potential by working among others with similar goals and aspirations, which I have been vastly deprived of in high school.</p>
<p>I want to go to college because you kind of need to to get a good job, like most people said. I also want to go because I will be the first one in my entire family to go and they are counting on me.</p>
<p>I don’t want to go to a HYPSM school because I don’t have any chance of getting into one and I don’t need the stress of twenty rejection letters.
As for wanting to go to college in the first place, I want to get a degree from a reasonably well-respected school and get into a good graduate school if I choose to do that and end up with a career I want and not be starving or living off my parents until I’m 30.
Also, I want to learn stuff. I enjoy classrooms and lectures. I want to leave this world knowing more than I did when I came in.</p>
<p>To be able to live independently of my parents (not financially), to make decisions and make friends without worrying about my parents’ approval, to do things freely that I would have to hide from my parents. </p>
<p>The thought of finally being on my own just makes me gush with excitement.</p>
<p>I want to go to college because college is where I can finish maturing and gain more independence. So I can learn to work hard and to reach my goals faster. To be able to support myself and have new experiences.</p>
<p>Because I want to be the very best, like no one ever was.</p>
<p>…seriously? Why not? I have the drive and intellect to succeed at a rigorous academic environment, so why waste such ability? Besides, if I am going to do something for the rest of my life, I’d rather do something that I may like, which will require a degree.</p>
<p>So I can get cheap tickets to football games</p>
<p>^^ actually I am a little upset that some schools make you pay for football and basketball games. I am so used to getting in to them for free</p>