<p>I am saying this from the perspective of being in community college at the moment. I am 19, cynical, and so full of hate you don’t want to know me.</p>
<p>On to the subject: Community college can sometimes offer something more valuable than the “college experience” so many people seem to like. I’ll give a little background to this story…</p>
<p>When I took Anatomy/Physiology in high school, I was a year ahead. Most people in Junior year picked chem, I didn’t. As a result, I was in a class full of seniors whom didn’t care to do their work, despite the “Don’t do all of it, don’t get any grade” rule. Now, save for one or two people, the entirety of the twenty to thirty people in the class going off to their dream college were immature in retrospect. Hell, I didn’t think they were mature when I saw there next to them. Far, far from what I would expect from someone wanting to go off without supervision to ‘learn’.</p>
<p>Now, that doesn’t mean they can’t be successful. That just means I think they are irresponsible, immature children who think they are entitled to not be supervised. Good for them.</p>
<p>I’m currently entering my 4th semester of community college. Time consuming? Yes. But the fact is, for maybe $800 (Likely much less with the tuition refund grant), and the investment of an additional semester worth of my time (Or nights, if you really must know), I will have a degree before I even transfer to my ‘dream college’, which I still don’t know about.</p>
<p>That means I will have a backup plan. For the cost of half of a year, I will have something to fall back on with nearly guaranteed employment (Process Technician, which is only offered at one community college in Northern California). Not to mention the pay isn’t far from that of electrical engineering, and I will have to do another two to three years of school just for that.</p>
<p>So before you go and decide CC isn’t for you, go ahead and browse a course catalog, see if they offer a technical program relevent to what it is you want to study.</p>