Do you want to complete college

[snoorkel]

What place do you feel higher education has in your life?

My objections to it are

- The time (and money) it takes to complete 4 years forces me into a way of living that conflicts with ways that are productive toward my own (constructive) goals, which I've confidently planned.
- No BA/BFA I could obtain would really give me added 'security'

I'm interested in obtaining a college education but I can't really find a school that designs their degree study like I'd like to do it.

[Samus Aran]

Yes, of course. For one thing, I'm already almost done getting my BFA anyway. For another thing, what I want to do (teaching) requires college education. For yet another thing, I've enjoyed the atmosphere here at school, and the classes, professors, and other students have all helped my writing immensely.

So yeah, I want to complete this degree, and then I'll keep going afterward. I'm comfortable in the path I've laid out for myself.

[??????]

i don't see myself pursuing a static career
medicine and biology are cool and all, but i'd neglect my interests in the humanities and art
and if i go with the latter, i'll neglect my curiosities and amusement in the sciences

i suppose pursuing medicine and working on my "less important" interests would be somewhat of good plan, but it doesn't feel right. i guess a job that ties up all my interests (so far, psychoendoneuroimmunology fits with that) would be the best bet--but i would feel uncomfortable if i were to be in that field for more than 2-4 years


oh i completely ignored the question
i would love having the majority of my classes being self-study (because i can jump from one interest to the next and progress whenever i feel like it), but i'm not sure how to do so on much more advanced classes--most require you to attend classes--i'll figure something out

[YPrrrr]

Yes, and easily... Getting a degree is pretty easy and will be useful down the road. Now grad school is a question

[Nyerp]

idk

[Selkie]

Yea I wish to complete college so i get a degree so I am marketable for some sort of job.

[Socks]

I went to school for 15 years and my best teacher was experience. It's a fools delight out there with pencil pushers substituting credentials for skill and genius. Every profession will suffer immensely from this perversion of education and what it means to be a learned man. I do not want to be a specialist, I want to be a man of the world. All giants of history were great not because they paid tuition, but because they paid attention.

[Daddy]

I am still deciding on whether or not I should get a PHD

so yes

[Selkie]

Yea I wish to complete college so i get a degree so I am marketable for some sort of job.

This was drunk selkie by the way ^^^

[Sam]

... no

I don't want to go into details again.

[Commander Fuckass]

Hopefully yes

[Zach]

No. I really hate college and there's a very strong possibility that I'll drop out as soon as the semester is over. Besides, at the rate I'm going I wouldn't be a sophomore until next fall, the beginning of my third year on campus.

edit: oh, and socks once again has to take it to a whole other level with over-intellectualizing everything

[Socks]

[spoiler]A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Emerson.
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[strongbad]

Yeah, for a couple reasons.
1. Parent's expectations. They are paying for a good portion of my college tuition, and I owe it to them to complete it with the best of my ability.
2. From a statistical standpoint, people with college degrees make specifically more money than those without any (especially in business).
3. I fucking love college and everything about it. I've enjoyed my last month in college more than my last 4 years in high school combined.

[ME##]

No. I really hate college and there's a very strong possibility that I'll drop out as soon as the semester is over. Besides, at the rate I'm going I wouldn't be a sophomore until next fall, the beginning of my third year on campus.

Not everyone is made out for college, I'm glad you're making the best decision for you. 

edit: oh, and socks once again has to take it to a whole other level with over-intellectualizing everything

Any monkey can hover a cursor over some text, highlight said text, copy and paste it and put in it italics. 

[spoiler]Look at me, look how super intellectual I am being right now with my italics.[/spoiler]