Why Honors?

Honors Program sounds like something that you'd be forced into by some parent because "it'll look good on a resumé."
Honors is, however, a wonderful thing.

Why? (I'll tell you why!)

Without Honors I don't think I would've fully embraced the ideas of education for the self (in contrast to education for a career.)
Sure, I would've read a bit, but there's more to it than that. College is not about classes.

College is about having the opportunities to do expensive things for less or for free. (BB King, Wicked, Shakespeare Festival, Madame Butterfly, etc.)
College is about having someone help you to find the best professors with the smallest agenda.
College is about telling your teachers what you want out of class and what you want to do in their class.
College is about taking trips random places outside of the classroom that you may learn more from and getting credit for going.
College is about going to lectures on topics you never had heard of and, sometimes, not understanding them, and other times finding a new passion.
College is about getting a few teachers that scare you because they're a little too "out there" to be as sane as they seem to be.
College is about going to a few events that don't spark your interest because you need to get so many points for a class. Then, afterwards, finding out you really don't hate all of them. (But.. ugh.. the Opera.. blegh.)
College is about getting way too much reading, insisting upon reading nearly all of it, and then going to class feeling prepared and being overwhelmed by the brilliance of your teacher and fellow students - suddenly realizing just how little you know.

The Honors Program is all about every one of those things and more.
These are the things you really can't get from College without putting major effort into searching for each one. In honors they fall in your lap without you saying a word and sometimes you forget just how lucky you are.

That's why.