<p>Honestly, in my opinion, I might be stupid or anything, but I think cc was pretty tough compare to what everyone say. At first, I thought ccc would be a breeze through, but after first semester, I actually have to try to get a decent grade. I had been trying to develop a good study skills and work on my test performance, but no dice. It's probably me that being stupid. I bet all of you guys think it was a breeze itself.</p>
<p>I never thought it was a breeze, I always worked hard. I think relative to the competition we’ll experience in UC classes, which are typically curved, CC will feel like a breeze. I’m able to take huge course loads now, 18-24 units a semester (and maintain a 4.0), that I doubt I’ll be able to do at a UC. Most UC transfers call their UC classes a tsunami, comparatively.</p>
<p>most UC students call upper division a tsunami, comparatively. it’s not the location, it’s the content.</p>
<p>At CCC it is really important to research your professors and to register as early as possible to get the better professors. At ccc I have had my best and worst ever professors.</p>
<p>…and definetely the worst study environment. Very few students are motivated and they all feed off each others laziness. Just get in to the habit of reading your text books really closely and learning the authors arguments.</p>
<p>i thought HS and CC were both super-easy… i just slept through class =/</p>
<p>Some classes at ccc for me were so easy that i could sleep during the whole class and still get an A. but other classes get pretty tough because of the professors. But either way you still have to have good study habits.</p>
<p>apparently you should have stayed awake in high school? I mean, you’re at a community college apparently.</p>
<p>Just because i’m in a community college doesn’t mean we couldn’t have gone to a UC straight out of college. I saved 40k. i still had As and Bs regardless of where i was or how much i slept.</p>
<p>I think it all depends on what classes you take. I will never ever ever listen to an art major, photo major, or any humanities major complain about hard school work. I am going for a chemistry degree and at my ccc I am spending 22.5 hours in class and labs and then on top of that homework which totals to about 60hrs of school a week. Basically I think CC is really hard to maintain a 4.0 in my major. I hear people complaining all the time about how hard their art class is but they are just complaining because they might actually have to take notes in class or something.</p>
<p>Everyday I question why I work so hard when there are so much easier majors. But then I just realize one day I will be making bank doing something I love. I dont mean to bash other majors because Im not saying the people in them are less smart or wont make money but lets be real, that stuff is way easier and considerably less time consuming than any science major.</p>
<p>in my opinion community college has been a breeze. i see a lot of my classmates always stressing out about tests and stuff and studying for hours at a time, but i rarely every study and manage to ace everything. maybe its just me. im guessing your one of those students that stress out.</p>
<p>people who think CC was easy probably took the BS majors such as psychology. If you do engineering or biology, youre going to have to take a ton of math, physics, ochem classes that are definitely not a breeze. I was also surprised how hard it was because everyone talked shiit about CC saying it was for stupid people and was ridiculously easy.</p>
<p>Here is my take on Community College. </p>
<p>Is it easy? Yes. And by easy, I mean it is very easy to get decent grades and pass. Most CC students have a hard time just passing some of the classes. Is it easy to get a 4.0? No, reason being some of the teachers are just too hard. For example, I got a B in College Algebra and an A in Calculus. I’m very good at math, I got a 790 on the SAT, it’s just the Algebra class I took was at 7:00 am with a female teacher that hated males. It is to this day the only B I have received in college. </p>
<p>The hardest part of CC is being surrounded by the laziest people in the world who think they are attending college. I mean I know kids who show up to class 4-5 times a semester and then complain they are college students and don’t have time for a job. Idk how it works at other places, but I know students who smoke weed in the bathrooms and hookers that walk around our campus. It really is a joke, and it makes me angry when students act like they are actually going to college. </p>
<p>And some classes are tough. If you want to be a business major, you need Econ/Math/Accounting, and that is tougher than the standard classes that most people take. The most important thing is to find easy/good professors. You have to use RateMyProfessor.com, it really is a life saver, no doubt about that. Once you do that, apply yourself and make sure you study and meet your professor. If you dedicate your time, it should be easy, just stay focused and keep your eye on the prize.</p>
<p>Some of my courses at community colleges were very difficult… some of them even harder than some of the classes I’m now taking at Berkeley, no joke! I think there is a lot of variation both at community colleges and at the UCs in terms of the level of difficulty between different majors, professors, classes within departments, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah I do stress out for sure. But I also think it comes down to what community college someone goes too. There are def. CC out there with a **** ton of people and the education isnt the same as say a school with 30 kids in a class, where the professors havea more personal connection and can teach more in depth rather than just checking the box and moving on to the next class.</p>
<p>I have had countless days of being on campus till 10pm in study groups on topics that I hear other cc dont even cover or cover just minimally. I went to a summer research internship at a UC with 12 science majors from other community colleges and when we were talking they all were laughing at the difficulty of my classes compared to theirs. </p>
<p>All I know is that 95% of the people I meet who say CC is easy and that its a breeze are not science or math majors. Im assuming you arent one either, but I may be wrong.</p>
<p>i’m an environmental science major so i do have to take chem and bio classes. i have to agree science classes are harder, and it takes an effort to get an A in them. I don’t mind settling with a B however!</p>
<p>Which CC, scoop?</p>
<p>Honestly, I think community college is pretty hard to sit through. I do most of my learning at the library or at home by myself. What makes it harder is when there is not good looking girls to look at. The more good looking girls, less painful the duration of the class is.
Other than that, I think community college is pretty easy. I can digest enough material from 4-5 science courses per semester while getting all A’s.</p>
<p>actually, most of CC has been pretty easy for me-take home tests, lots of bonus, la la la. EXCEPT for the spanish class I’m in and the Critical Thinking class.
Those are insanely hard (even harder than a lot of classes I took at a 4 yr college!!)</p>
<p>Community College can be easy, but it can be just as hard as any other 4-year university. It really depends on which classes and professors you are choosing. It may also depend on which community college you are going to.</p>
<p>I am studying EECS at Berkeley now which said to be one of the “hardest” majors here. Yes, it is different, but not as much as people make it out to be. I am getting good grades and I study just as hard as I did in Community College. Some of my CC classes were harder than classes I have taken here. Not material-wise, but in terms of what you are expected to do/understand.</p>
<p>However, I think this is mostly true for science/engineering classes since the curriculum is pretty much fixed, independent of what school you are going to. Also, I never took the easy way out by taking professors who just give away A’s. At my CC I had professors from Caltech, MIT and Berkeley, and they expected a lot from their students. I don’t think my classmates were stupid either.</p>
<p>I took exactly one history class at Community College and it was a joke. Throughout the semester we had 3 quizzes, and before each I spent 30min memorizing the online-posted summary. Result: A. Total study time during semester: ~2h. I never went to lecture either.</p>
<p>So, please no generalizations 
I respect my CC as much as I respect Berkeley.</p>
<p>Thomas, which CC did you attend? Did your CC have classes that articulated with CS61abc and EE40 and EE20n?</p>
<p>Care to share your EECS experience (just generally)? Anything you recommend doing or not doing, as far as classes and units? Which option are you? Thanks.</p>