<p>Hi! I'm currently a senior in high school who is going to consider going to go to a Community College (CCC) for my first year or two in college. Then I plan on transferring and spending the rest of my time at the college I decide to attend. </p>
<p>I feel very disappointed b/c I feel like I am going to miss out a lot on the 'traditional college experience' and I will be missing out on a lot of the bonding & friendships made during freshman year. :/</p>
<p>Do you think I'll still be able to catch up during the last 2 yrs of college?</p>
<p>Well it won’t be like going to a university, if that’s what you’re asking. If the traditional college experience is important to you, you will be missing out on the freshman year aspect of that. Some people don’t care about that, some do. I wouldn’t have given up my freshman year experience for anything, but some people feel that it is overhyped.</p>
<p>As for if you can catch up during the last two years of college, that’s on you. If you want to enjoy the college partying life, be aware that for some people it does die down after freshman or sophomore year, so that might be something that’s hard to get back. Everything else though is nothing more than what you make it. You may have to work a little harder, but I am sure it’s possible.</p>
<p>CC equals social suicide. I’ve hated my time at CC for just this reason, complete and utter lack of making social connections. I’ve just made my first two friends at community college, and this is my last semester. I consider myself a pretty social, nice, person…If you come in with a group of friends from high school it can be okay, I was just unfortunate enough to have my family relocate just prior to starting community college…</p>
<p>I went to a local community college for the past two semesters, and I hate it. I’m transferring out for the Fall. I’m not even bothering to complete the associates degree; it’s just not worth it. All of my friends are away, having the time of their life, and I’m stuck at home. I’ve made two friends the whole time I’ve been here, and I’m an outgoing person. It just sucks all around, haha.</p>
<p>Community College is what you make of it. If you want to have parties and friends you can do that. If you want to be an antisocial loner, you can do that too.</p>
<p>The freshman experience, from what I’ve seen with my friends, appears to be getting wasted all the time, sleeping with random men, meeting up with friends for breakfast and doing it all again the next night with an interspersed random bouts of studying on the week days. So yeah, overhyped.</p>
<p>^I wouldn’t say it’s overhyped for everyone. Some people really enjoy that sort of thing (I do, for example) and therefore they’d probably be sad if they missed it. Furthermore since it’s pretty popular I’d go ahead and say that many people really don’t think it’s overhyped, though you are most certainly welcome to think so :)</p>
<p>You are going to miss out. That “freshman” experience is not attainable for CC transfer students. However, you can still have a great college experience, make a lot of friends, and have a good time as long as you work at it. You just have to get used to the idea that it will be a /different/ college experience. You can’t force it to be the same story that traditional students will have.</p>
<p>I went to a community college for a while and I had a pretty good experience there. Obviously the experience you’ll have at a university where most people live on/near campus will be different from a community college where most people commute, but that doesn’t mean there’s anything bad about it.</p>
<p>Some things I’ll try to clear up about Community College from my experience:</p>
<p>There are serious students there. Not everyone is some failed loser.
You can make friends there.
It’s not going to be just the kids from your high school (infact, I think in the range of 300 or so kids from my high school went to that community college, only a handful were in any of my classes).
Not ever class is a joke. Some will be easier than at a University. Some will be the same. Others might be harder. </p>
<p>And some other things that I liked about it personally:</p>
<p>You see a lot of the same people in a lot of your classes. If you go through the calc sequence you’re likely to see all those kids again in future calc classes. If you go through Chem or Physics classes the same. It’s kind of like high school like that.</p>
<p>Everyone is different. Where as at my University, most of the people are pretty much the same. </p>
<p>As for partying, I haven’t done that at either the community college or university… I can’t really comment there. I think at a community college people have things to do and can’t go out and just get wasted every weekend.</p>