If this had been last summer, I would have picked the first option without a moment's hesitation. However, this year (going into my final year), I think I have gained a greater appreciation of the value of knowledge in bringing happiness (indeed, as Bertrand Russell said, "There is much pleasure to be found in useless knowledge"). Therefore, I go to school with a renewed sense of purpose; instead of seeing the knowledge from school as pointless at worst and simply a means to an end at best, I shall see the value of knowledge in a new light.
*returns to lurking*