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?

[kimmytree]

I don't think that Michael's particularly right with the "everyone goes to college" idea, but it's true that many people do go. A bachelor's degree is now pretty much the basic requirement to getting a good job.

I think what he meant was that WAY more people are going now then they did... say, when our parents were our age. People used to be able to be secretaries and that kind of thing with absolutely no degree. But these days, you have to have a degree for that type of thing. More and more people are going to college... so in return one might be more limited with a job level, compared to getting a job in the past.