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No. I don't plan on going. I want to either be a mailman or a secretary, which I can accomplish without school. If I change my mind in the future, I change my mind. My entire family and friends have always tried to tell me to go. I'm 22. I just don't see the point right now. But I may change my mind.
I feel there are people who definitely need to go, and I feel there are LOTS of people who feel like they have to go. Obvious, right? Well, maybe not.. almost everyone I know has either regretted going or felt pressured into it by parents/whatever. I don't see college as being a bad thing at all, but I do think high school doesn't really prepare a person at all for college. I could go on a whole other rant about how high school for me was pointless and it seemed like most of it was just a review of everything I learned in 8th grade, but I'll spare you all.
I don't find it to be a necessary part of life, but I'm proud of people who go and make something of themselves... but no one should feel like they have to go to make something of themself. My girlfriend goes and she hates herself for going and she hates going there every day, but her mom and dad pretty much forced her to go. Well, she feels forced... actually, they'd probably kick her out if she wasn't going. Tough love? I dunno. She wants to be an animator but they pressured her to do chemistry. She talks about quitting every day. And when she gets out of school, she'll definitely be able to use that degree for some good -- but she'll also owe a shit ton of money that her parents didn't pay.
Some rich kid I knew said something along the lines of this to me once... "college is a way to get a job that maybe pays a dollar more than working at Wal-Mart your whole life -- but it's probably a better than working at Wal-Mart your whole life." I know plenty of naive people that think just having a degree is the way to be a fucking millionaire; guess what, you may have a degree in something but so do thousands of others, also trying to get the same job as you. College gurantees nothing.
I think life is too short to spend it in school, but if it's something you're passionate about go for it.
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