<p>my CC is like high school! professors just want to get their pay check and not puting effort in teaching! Throught my 2 years in CC, I meet only 1 good pro. I don't like my CC? what do you guys think about your CC</p>
<p>I love mine. I could spend all my years there. My instructors have all been wonderful, aside from the one who taught algebra...</p>
<p>I have had very, very high quality professors at my community college; most have their PHDs, and are enthusiastic to teach. I really cannot think of one professor where I felt they were only teaching for the money, rather than academic progression. But, I hate Community College, the social life is entirely bunk, and it wound up, for me, becoming a commuter school.</p>
<p>I am beyond ready to leave/transfer at this point, but I have been very pleased with nearly all of my professors. I have never felt deprived of a good instructor. As far as the people go, I have met some of the best individuals of my life at my CC. These are people who realize that they of course did not go to an ivy league outside of high school; or that they weren't necessarily the valedictorian of their graduating class--but they realize all they need is ambition and a plan of action to accomplish what they want.</p>
<p>...and most importantly, I am VERY glad I did not to go to a UC straight out of high school. I attended a few of my friend's lectures at a UC during my freshman year, and I felt the lectures at my school were superior for the same introductory class. </p>
<p>+1 Community Colleges :D</p>
<p>Yea, I am glad I attended CCC now, but was not when entering my first semester.</p>
<p>I have had very high quality professors throughout my CCC stay, except for when I didn't know of ratemyprofessor's existence. One of my psych professors was so knowledgeable, charismatic, and with better rhetoric than Obama, that it allowed me to see psych as intimately linked with philosophy. So here I am now a psych major :)</p>
<p>But really, I am more than anxious to get the hell out of this college and into a UC</p>
<p>Yeah, I can second that too. It felt "exactly like high school" in the beginning. Once you start taking the later classes--everything except the general education courses--you'll start to meet the dedicated people who DO want to transfer. That's when a lot of things change.</p>
<p>alansda: I am the same way. I love philosophy. I am majoring in neuroscience.</p>
<p>I really like my CC in general, and I am pro-CC/transfer. I might have a different outlook because I only take night classes, which tend to have students who are a bit older and have a lot of determination. The only exceptions were a couple of Spanish classes which had a lot of older students who seemed like they were just looking for something to do, when I really wanted to learn Spanish. </p>
<p>I have been very happy with most of the professors I've chosen, and a few of them have really stood out, namely my English profs and the profs teaching science classes. For the most part, they have all been very enthusiastic about teaching and as helpful as can be. It can't be easy to be a professor at a CC, as I've heard they work many hours, and sometimes have jobs at two or three CCs to make ends meet. </p>
<p>It is usually easy to get classes, so the few times I didn't like the professor on the first day, I was able to drop and add another class - either the same subject or something else that I needed. However, I have to say that this semester I am most disappointed with my professors, but I am stuck. My poli sci prof treats us like we are still in high school - he makes us raise our hands, is very strict about being even 30 seconds late, and makes the back row sit with 1 empty desk between each person. I am usually early and always sit in the front row, but he just seems condescending. My econ 1 prof is very lenient about discussion (no need to raise hands) and being on time or late, but he has no idea how to actually teach the subject. We are already 2 weeks behind schedule and I don't think half the class actually grasps the basic concepts of economics. It wouldn't be so bad if the prof would stop going off on political tangents and spending 15 minutes trying to answer simple, direct questions (his answers leave everyone even more baffled since they don't actually answer the question). I don't know, though, it may be that I am just ready to leave CC and transfer!</p>
<p>I love my ccc, pcc. Ahh I will miss all my friends after transferring....</p>
<p>I go to CCSF and I love it. :D</p>
<p>All my professors are awesome. I usually signed up for classes with nice and funny professors. I never end up with bad professors so I love CCSF. =)</p>
<p>I started at Santa Monica College and hated it. As a theater major, I was surrounded by classmates that would kiss severe a$$ because one of the instructors had connections at Juilliard and Guilford (UK) and could get them priority auditions. It made my skin crawl. Also, it's extremely crowded so sometimes it's difficult to get into classes if you don't register the first day available.</p>
<p>Then I went to Moorpark College and liked it a lot more. That's where I got my AA and completed IGETC. It was a lot more personal though I had some problems with one professor.</p>
<p>Right now I'm just taking one class at College of the Canyons (American Sign Lang. 4) so I can't really judge the school. My class is cool, though.</p>
<p>My first year at CCSF i didn't like it.But this semester I'm really starting to like school and I have made good friends that i study with now.</p>
<p>I've had exceptional Professors.
Everything else is pretty much lame & depressing. Other students, negative counselors, safety issues etc.,</p>
<p>I like my CC. It is very diverse ethnically and in age group. I really hated high school so its kind of refreshing to come to CC and have more mature students in my classes. People are not very smart but more or less seem interested in learning. I've had really great professors and they seem to care about their students. I'll have to complain a bit and say that I think it's too easy and not preparing me at all for transferring and the location is somewhat ghetto.</p>
<p>I'm in Orange Coast College... overall, i'd say it wasn't an entirely horrible experience but there really is no social life at a CC.<br>
I've had a mixture of both good and bad professors like any other college... one criticism i have is that most of them are way too easy. Although I have no objection against a nice cushy A to boost the GPA, I hardly felt like I deserved it. </p>
<p>Also, in my smaller classes we'd always get that ONE REALLY ANNOYING KID WHO WON'T SHUT UP. You know, the arrogant guy who constantly interrupts the class to interject his opinons. Participating in discussion is one thing, but to waste 15 minutes of my time to hear him blather.... AGH.</p>
<p>Has anyone else experienced this? If you haven't, it's you.</p>
<p>Anyways, what was the question? Ah yes - I hate my CC, but i'm grateful for the transfer program.</p>
<p>Lol, I know exactly what you mean, samus. That's one drawback to CC. I personally love discussing my major and holding intellectual conversations and the like; but at CC, profs desperately attempt to fill that quintessential college trait of discussion, which, almost invariably turn into an incredibly topical conversation inundated with undeserved pretension.</p>
<p>During my first semester I generally participated in every discussion, but after listening to circular arguments, shallow points, and tangential anecdotes ad nauseum, I gave up and have now found myself quite comfortable observing the quasi-intellectual train wrecks which discussions tend to become. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, some profs think giving participation a grade will spark willing discourse, but, as I have observed, this method usually ends up forcing contrived conversation coupled with students interrupting the profs with what he/she is about to say attempting to instill a sense of involvement to get that grade.</p>
<p>I'm going to SMC and I love it. All my professors have PhD's. Last semester I had a Physics Prof with his PhD from Yale, a Chem Prof with his PhD from MIT and a Math Prof from UCLA. This semester I have another Physics Prof with his Degree from MIT (but his PhD from somewhere else). They are all great teachers and know what they're talking about. They have time for their students and stay late after class. I really can't say anything bad about the professors here, haven't had a single bad experience.</p>
<p>Well, counselors suck, of course. But who here listens to CC counselors anyway?</p>
<p>I can't complain about my social life either. I'm living close to UCLA, so my friends are mostly UCLA students and there's always something you can do here. But yeah, if I didn't live close to UCLA my social life would probably suck, CC really doesn't offer much socially.</p>
<p>It also really depends on what kind of classes you take. My first semester wasn't that good either. I was taking more popular classes (Eng1, Calc1, History, Gen. Chem) and most people there were not serious about transferring, kind of like High School. But once you get into higher classes both people and professors get better.</p>
<p>AdamantineX- i went to pcc too if you're talking about Pasadena and hated it cause of no parking, too crowded, and scheudle of classes just sucked and classes always closed really fast so you could end up with a bad scheudle. I hated high school and hated my first semester of cc also, i left my first cc and now am happier at another cc. I agree that there are some good professors and bad ones and the people are more mature unlike high school. But yeah cc is a commuter school with no social life.</p>
<p>Thomas_:
That's extremely depressing PHD's from Yale and MIT teaching at a community college. I know SMC has nice facilities but that doesn't change the fact that they've spent forever in school to not teach at least some UC or private insitution with college students that probably won't drop out after a couple of months. I think CCC has just made me a tad cynical. It's impersonal and no wonder people leave, the administrations should do something about this.</p>
<p>Oh, they taught at other institutions before. Actually I asked my Physics Prof about this and he just replied "I'm living close and I love the weather here" ;)</p>
<p>To teach at a good university they must also get into research again. Universities hire professor not because of their teaching, but because of their research. Maybe they simply want to focus on teaching, that's why they're at a CC.</p>