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?

[alysaphobia]

i want to go to college because i want to accomplish certain things, i want to become a certain type of person, i want to live a certain type of life; all of which, if i don't go to college, i'd not be able to achieve/become. going to college will open up many job oppurtunities and career fields which i'd not be able to consider if i didn't have the qualifications/degree for it. even if you're uncertain about what you want to be, going to college will still provide more choices for you in the end rather than ending your education at a high school level.

plus ... i like school. i like people.
i think the harder question is this: if you had the chance to, why wouldn't you want to college?