But what if I don't want to go to college? Options

[radhikaeatsraman]

Throughout my life, it has been hammered into my brain that I absolutely must go to college or else I will end up homeless and die and god knows what else. So what did I do? I started worrying about my GPA, my extracurriculars, the awards I "should" get, what I "should" do over the summer, etc. But I have been asking myself this seemingly simple question: Why do I want to go to college?

And I can't answer it. It depresses me, because I've been taking Pre-AP/"higher-level" classes since middle school, (I'm a freshman) thinking all the while that this would help me to obtain something that I thought I wanted.

Sure, you could say that I don't need to worry right now, I'm a freshman, yada yada yada, but high school goes by FAST. I can't be a freshman forever, sadly. (Actually, more like "thank god," but that's not the point. :P)

I have two questions for you, members of createBlog: Why do you want to go to college & what do you think of people who turn down the opportunity to do so?

[*suddenly she*]

I want to go to college because I want to go somewhere where I feel like I somewhat match the people around me in intelligence. At my high school I'm always out of place, so going to a music school is a big deal to me because I'm hoping to find other people who are a bit more... eccentric than the ones here. + I just like classes and meeting/working with new people.

And for people who turn down college... I really don't know. I guess some have more important things on their mind, like the ones who quit school for music or maybe sometimes it's just not what they think think their life's supposed to be like.