<p>int7: go to Cal Poly it's a great engr school</p>
<p>the best teachers i've had this year were the full time CC teachers. They were wonderful!!!!! The worst: stupid adjuncts from nearby Syracuse University and Lemoyne College. They were boring. After having them teach me, i thanked god for the fact that i was only paying $2,000 a year, rather than $40,000 to be taught by the exact same teacher in the exact same course. </p>
<p>The worst part of the CC experience was the drive. 25 miles one way was a drag!!! Especially when i had to be there 4-5 days a week. Lame!</p>
<p>No regrets though. I saved my ass $60,000 or so by sticking with the CC then transfering to Cornell.</p>
<p>gomestar, wat cc did u attend?</p>
<p>I would say no if you check ratemyprofessors.com</p>
<p>Helen, doubtful. Graduate seminar level at a CC? Community college is community college. I worked for one for years (full-time) and was a student full-time after that stint at the "#1 CC in the nation" and I can assure you that no class was taught at any other "level" then what was described explicitly in the catalog/Schedule Classes/course number level.</p>
<p>Gomestar, only 25?!? That's nothing out here in California, or in New York where my best friends' live. I personally drove farther 6 days a week because I worked there as well. It's great you saved money, but if you're going to complain might as well have something viable to complain about. lol</p>
<p>int7.. what high school are u coming from, i go to DVC</p>
<p>Independent HS in Berkeley... No AP's offered...</p>
<p>Comm College rocks!</p>
<p>25 miles sucks when you live in the snowiest city in the US. and my CC is perched on a hill. made for a terrible drive 5 days a week in the winter. 2-3 of my friends on campus have gotten in car accidents driving in the hazardous weather. not cool. not fun. I'd rather drive 40 miles one way in california than here. </p>
<p>to whoever asked earlier, i went to Onondaga Community College in Syracuse.</p>
<p>human sexuality, theres another easy A ...</p>
<p>in response to blackdream...</p>
<p>what's considered a "good" gpa for a physics major? 3.8-4.0?</p>
<p>wow, michelle commuted 25+ miles, and gomestar commuted 25~ miles one way.</p>
<p>i commute 5.5 miles to a California community college every weekday.</p>
<p>I commute about .5 mi, including navigating the parking lots. Campus is almost quite literally right behind my house. I feel very lucky.</p>
<p>I got a 3.93 my first semester while taking honors courses, but I can't say any of those grades came easily. I did need to study a lot and work really hard on my papers. I did have plenty of time to participate in clubs, but I wasn't exactly slacking off, either.</p>
<p>I think it really depends on your community college. Mine is one of the top-ranked in the country, sends transfers to colleges like Yale, Brown, Amherst, Smith, Wesleyan, and the like yearly, and has a faculty almost entirely comprised of PhDs, or at the very least Master's holders with a lot of teaching experience behind them. Virtually all of our Liberal Arts curriculum courses transfer to the top colleges (at least, the ones former students have transferred into), so I tend to think we're a bit different compared to most CCs. We're not exactly a "cooking-and-typing" school.</p>
<p>commuting is a *****. when i lived with my dad in tracy, i could either commute to Las Posita's in livermoore, which was 25 miles, or Delta College which was 30 miles. I chose delta because even though it was 30 miles, there is less traffic going to stockton than there is to livermoore. I commuted this 30 mile treck every day, sometimes twice if i had a night class. The plus side was my dad gave me a credit card to use for gas and what not out of the deal. anyways cc is a good stepping stone into the real university system. Im glad its all over.....UCSC BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOTCH</p>
<p>Gomestar,</p>
<p>Adjuncts suck at every school! </p>
<p>They don't get paid enough so they don't really care. It's usually not their first profession. I had one adjunct who made more money cutting lawns than he did teaching. How arse backwards is that? If you get good grades from the adjuncts at CC then you've really taught yourself.</p>
<p>I recommend everyone take classes curing the day and work nights. For the most part, daytime instructors are committed and caring people who know how to teach. Sure there are some bad apples, but they don't typically last very long.</p>
<p>For me, it seems that night classes consisted of a less educated group and the teacher is more sympathetic and an easier grade. However, I was always tempted and sometimes skipped because night classes are a drag.</p>
<p>"For me, it seems that night classes consisted of a less educated group and the teacher is more sympathetic and an easier grade. However, I was always tempted and sometimes skipped because night classes are a drag."</p>
<p>Sigh..
In a World War II class last fall (6:30 to 9:10 pm, mostly older and several senior citizens), many of the older students had a half hour's worth of questions for the professor regarding MLA in-text citations.</p>
<p>I'm definitely not taking any more night classes. I took two last semester and loathed them both. I don't even want to imagine what the weekend classes are like.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, but adult students are really hard to deal with for the rest of us who aren't in that same situation. It's really hard to learn anything when half the class wants to be instructed on how to write a college-level paper (Western Civ I) or talk about why kids today are just so terrible (Sociology). Two entirely different groups of learners that, in my opinion, don't seem to mix well.</p>