You're away from home. You're surrounded by smart people. Like you, they are happy to have smart people to talk to about smart things (and stupid things). Keep in touch; someday you'll probably work for them, or hire them. Everyone's studying different things for different reasons. There's no drudgery; every day is different because the whole point is to learn stuff. If you live in residence, it's twice as good because you don't have to commute back to "the real world." If you're lucky, you never even have to go to work (I don't recommend having a job while in school; you're probably better off borrowing, and making the most of your tuition fees by learning stuff while you have the chance).
You can take courses in a hundred different subjects. The teachers aren't just teachers; they *are* the subject (they have the ideas and they write the books). Eventually you realize that you are the subject too.
It's good for your career: you can tell which jobs are interesting, and you will have a chance to get those jobs. You'll still have to learn some new stuff when you start - they don't teach Product X at university - but people will invest in you because they know that you can learn.
Or, in the case of the Kootenays, because "I have a degree in computer science" sounds a lot like "I have an IQ of 700". Meaningless but impressive.