Update: So Jesse cc's me on an email with this thought under the above quote:

I think that this is a very interesting comment. I've recently wondered what prompts undergraduate students to pursue graduate studies. This certainly isn't the whole answer, but I think it is a part of the answer.

You might wonder, what interests me, if computer science does not. The answer to that is entrepreneurship, business, economics, and the application and implication of technology. While grad school has never really been something I've wanted to do because I'd rather 'create and build', I can't deny that today's economic reality is bleak. Faced with either a hard time finding a job after graduation or a hard time building a company I've come to also consider grad school as an option. Seeing as I dislike math/proofs/theory of computation I really thought computer science wouldn't be something that I'd want to study. Instead I thought that I'd probably do an MBA (or equivalent) but I'm now realizing after reading way too many research papers that perhaps someone with a CS bachelors degree can study things that are related to CS but not taught in the undergrad environment. Which really is a shame because it'd be nice if our undergrad CS eduation was more than just 'textbook' math, proofs & theory. So, this course, Social Implications of Computing, through a long series of essays has opened my eyes a bit to the broader field of computer science, which has increased my interest in graduate studies.

Something like that.
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