Will College Support Your Passion?

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It's not necessarily a choice between one or the other: see if you can find something that makes good money AND that you enjoy.  Having a job you enjoy going to sure makes life easier, but so does making a good living.  I'm not going to limit myself to choosing just one of those options.

I basically agree with this and I'll use a classic example to illustrate what I mean.  If my passion is to be a professional artist I can go to art school and get a BFA/MFA but I've just got to know that very few people can make a decent living at being a full-time artist.  One solution would be to get a business degree and use that knowledge to promote my art business.  Or I could get a degree Graphic Art and go into advertising, etc.  The point is that there are hybrid solutions to that problem, it's not really a black or white problem.  I once knew a guy who was a musician, had a good band, but they couldn't quite get themselves to the point were they could all leave their day jobs.  He worked in a hospital delivering supplies to all the units.  It was a job that required attention to detail and good social skills.  He had that covered.  He and the band played nights/weekends in the Boston area for years.  Eventually I lost track of him but he was pretty happy with that sort of arrangement.  It's all well and good to pursue your passions but sometimes it gets pretty old living in your moms basement.  At the same time, if you let go of your passion to make more money then you can become resentful/bitter.  Plus, as another poster said, people go through different stages in their careers and can often times find ways to combine aspects of those two worlds.