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View Poll Results: What was/is your primary motivation for going to college? | |
To learn
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To gain a degree on resume for job opportunities
|    | 27 | 48.21% | |
To meet a significant other
|    | 0 | 0% | |
To appease parents
|    | 0 | 0% | |
To learn carrot cultivation methods
|    | 3 | 5.36% | |
Other - explain
|    | 3 | 5.36% |
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09-18-2008, 08:56 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 3rd stone from the sun | | | Why go to college?
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What was/is your primary motivation for going to college?
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09-18-2008, 08:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | | John Tesh
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09-18-2008, 09:00 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Because I wanted to be ripped off for thousands of pounds and a pyramid scheme seemed to immediate. |
09-18-2008, 09:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada | | | Because I wanted to be Tony Danza when I grew up.
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09-18-2008, 09:06 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | The Tony Danza Tapdance extravaganza will melt your ******* face off. |
09-18-2008, 09:07 AM
| | | | I like the lifestyle. |
09-18-2008, 09:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cypress, TX (NW Houston) | | | Combination of the first two. I am an engineering and needed to learn the basics and get a degree so I could get a job in my choosen field.
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09-18-2008, 09:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | because I was young, foolish, and thought that it was a good way to secure a future for myself... twice.
Dropped out both times. Hated it. Trade school is where it's at for me.
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09-18-2008, 09:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: an ignore list near you | | | Initially, because I was told that was the only way to make mony in the real world. After I realized that was BS, I stayed for the education.
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09-18-2008, 09:57 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Yeah, degrees are just symbolic that you can be a good employee and jump through society's hoops. No I'm not bitter dude that didn't get his. I have a Masters Degree. I really just stayed in school for the chicks and learning. Not always in that order, and sometimes the two combined. |
09-18-2008, 10:06 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | Learning was why I went, but I was also hoping to remake myself socially. I ended up not learning as much as I could have, and I was very unsuccessful in remaking myself as an all around cool guy. 
The bottom line is that college is a great place to learn academically and it is also a great place to learn to be yourself.
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09-18-2008, 10:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | | To learn and to explore career opportunities that require education beyond what high school can provide. Meeting new people and making friends is bonus. |
09-18-2008, 10:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Northern Va. | | | +1 to Dr. Cheese. As much as I (and now my son, a sophomore) needed to become educated, I also needed an intermediary step in the metamorphosis process of growing up.
College = Larval stage (?)
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09-18-2008, 10:56 AM
|  | Fellow Conspirator | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Alexandria, VA | | I really enjoyed college as a learning and social experience but in the end it was always about job opportunity and income. http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa072602a.htm
A degree pays off in the long run. Pays off big! |
09-18-2008, 11:12 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | I'm here for the job.
The one thing they don't teach here is common sense, what most of the world lacks. I can learn anything, formal education or not.
I just need that stupid piece of paper.
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09-18-2008, 11:17 AM
| | | | To get that piece of paper called a degree which states that you are entitled to work somewhere where they pay above minimum wage.
Seriously, I'm only doing it for the job. I want to become a Paramedic, and though it doesn't require a college degree, more and more EMS/fire departments are looking for candidates who are well-rounded and educated beyond what is expected of their job. A few departments I looked at also offer higher starting pay and bonuses for those with 4 year degrees.
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09-18-2008, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | | I went to pick on nerds.
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Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker you're nothing but a **** stirring troll | Set your expectations accordingly.
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09-18-2008, 11:24 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Latimour I went to pick on nerds. | Yeah, plenty of those on law courses! No wonder I'm not cut out for it!  |
09-18-2008, 11:43 AM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris2112 Yeah, plenty of those on law courses! No wonder I'm not cut out for it! | No I think you're not cut out for it because you don't know how to use prepositions.  |
09-18-2008, 11:46 AM
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