<p>So, as some of you may know, I am enrolled at a community college. Sometimes, I felt that I regretted going to community college and wanted to transfer out ASAP. But in reality, I made so many friends at my CC that sometimes, I like my CC. However, I didn't make friends through clubs or sports; I made friends in the library, at lunch, and in the classroom. In fact my first college friend walked up to me during orientation and we introduced ourselves. Eventually, we became friends and more friends eventually followed.</p>
<p>So, even though I wish I could transfer to a real college with dorms, I actually like it.</p>
<p>The only part I don't like is the 45 minute to and hour commute from home. Still gotta drive to my CC.</p>
<p>So for all the CC and former CC students: Do you like your community college? Did you make any lifelong friends at a community college?</p>
<p>I think the question “do you like your community college” doesn’t really have to do so much with your school as much as it has to do with the students that attend the school and your ability or want to make the most of your experience. You can replace community college in your question with any top school in the country, and your experience could be worst or better than the worst school in the country. Additionally the ability to make “life-long” friends is dependant on two people. It can happen anywhere or with anyone as long as the two are willing and it naturally happens. </p>
<p>I’ve been to community college, prior to transferring to UCLA this fall, and my experience has basically been the same. It doesn’t have to do with UCLA, it has to do with me. It also doesn’t have to do with community college, it has to do with me. The only think that UCLA has over community college(at least this quarter, are the resources). The students are humans, regardless of the place of institution they attend. I frankly found more interesting personalities at community college because of all their diverse backgrounds and interests than I have at both UCLA and a former private art college I attended.</p>
<p>I have been at my community college now for a year. I have made a ton of friends both with the students and teachers and staff. School like anything else in life is what you make of it. So just enjoy life and what it has to offer.</p>
<p>The cc I go to doesn’t have clubs/sports. Nor a library. I know. My parents and I found this all very gay. Theres a lounge area so its not too rush-rush. Plus its just a bus ride away from my house so yay.</p>
<p>I just ended my first semester. Got a few phone numbers. It’s good to talk to people right after class and exchange #s with the reason of homework. Looking forward to transferring in about 2 years and that is when I will care more about a social experience. </p>
<p>I take cc as preparation time. Should be getting this job soon. Working out. Already prepared a list of questions to ask my roommate when that day comes. Currently looking up and making a list of things to do in the universitys area. My cc is lacking so I do not have much to take advantage of. I would rate mine a 3/5.</p>
<p>My community college is just like high school, and in fact, a lot of pot smoking high school dropouts attend it. Is it just me, or is bringing a portable Hookah in a suitcase to the smokers section at my CC, just not right? I’m very academically driven, so I don’t really have any ambition to befriend these druggies, however I have made a few immature high school-like friends here. I also despise the 30-40 minute commute… Ah well, only one more semester and I’m off to a U…</p>
<p>I will say some things I like about it though. I like the tuition, great way to save money. Another plus, it also has a nice computer lab and library.</p>
<p>Overall, I like my CC. The teachers have mostly been great and extremely well qualified. Small classes, lots of opportunity to get to know the professors. I’ve run into problems with some of the administrative bureaucracy, but to be fair other portions of the administrative bureaucracy helped me out when they arose. I’ve been taking some focused “major” classes and some “general” humanities classes . . . I’ve noticed that the students in the former tend to be more focused and involved in classes than in the latter.</p>
<p>You do have to plan carefully and be proactive. Help is there if you need it, but no one is going to force it on you if you don’t seek it out yourself. Of course, this is true of all colleges to some extent, but IMO moreso in a community college, where you aren’t living in a dorm where a roommate or RA will notice if you stop going to class.</p>
<p>“Do you like your community college? Did you make any lifelong friends at a community college?”
No, and absolutely not. Curriculum was super easy, students were not very friendly and often were non-trads, I graduated with a 3.9 after reading only one book (history) the entire two years of my stay. Also, I successfully procrastinated to the point that I got an A on my microbiology final with less than 2 hours of studying material that I WASN’T familiar with!</p>
Another plus, it also has a nice computer lab and library.</p>
I’ve been taking some focused “major” classes and some “general” humanities classes . . . I’ve noticed that the students in the former tend to be more focused and involved in classes than in the latter.</p>