<p>yea you are dumb. cc is cake. this is coming from someone who barely graduated highschool with a hs GPA lower than 2.0. try harder pls.</p>
<p>This whole cc is easy conversation is such bs. People here are talking about cc is easy besides the math and science classes and so on and so on. That’s the way it is for everyone. What differs from people here and those slackers at whatever cc you go to is the dedication to get good grades that everyone in some way has already mentioned. I’ve seen people going on about how they dedicate an immense amount of hours to studying, or they sacrifice their social life, or they research professors like nobody’s business. All those different things sum up why you are chatting on College Confidential, arguing the difference between Cal and UCLA, compared to being some slacker questioning should they go to the local CSU or the CSU in the county one over.</p>
<p>What does all this sum up to? Study Skills!!!</p>
<p>People here treat school as a job but people attempting a CSU transfer just treat school as something they should be a part of simply because they have been told it is something they should be a part of.</p>
<p>My point? CC is easy because you people are smart!!! Not because cc is so darn easy.</p>
<p>People on here that say CC is easy are definitely self-indulging ass holes. Don’t mind them. </p>
<p>I busted my ass through CC, could have done better had I known how to approach it, but as is life.</p>
<p>@cooldude6 and audio slavery- if you think cc is hard, wouldnt that make a university education even harder (theoretically speaking). what aspect of CC is hard for you??</p>
<p>the profs WANT you to transfer. they encourage you do to well, provide lots of help, and are extremely personal.</p>
<p>most CC’s offer FREE tutoring…cmon. take advantage of it. your paying for it. </p>
<p>“I busted my ass through CC, could have done better had I known how to approach it, but as is life.”
thats such a weak excuse. if you have to learn through that way, so be it.
if you want help, SEEK IT! </p>
<p>to the OP, if you are having trouble, get tutoring provided by the CC, email the prof and ask if you can have him/her explain the things you dont understand in more depth. ask for extra credit</p>
<p>first thing i ALWAYS do EVERY semester is somehow/someway let the prof know, im not here to ■■■ around. im here to learn and get an A. if they know your serious, they will take you seriously. I once took rock history and was riding with D, but because I found help…i got an A. amazing.</p>
<p>I don’t want to get into a flame war but spare me the I got an A in rock history stories ok?</p>
<p>Trying to balance work and school is the toughest part, an hour commute to school each day didn’t help either. I work fri-sun and have class mon-thurs. Most of the people that talk **** on here are typically the privileged ones that live on mommy and daddy’s dollar through college.</p>
<p>The tough aspects for me were definitely within the professors I took. I had some ****ty math professors at my first CC. </p>
<p>I got a C in precalculus and an A in Calculus 1 for example. I think that is testament to how brutal professors can butcher your GPA. I took both courses over 6 weeks as well. In fact, that was one of the few non-A’s i got at CC. I think I had 2 B’s aside from that. I’m taking 17 units now and I anticipate straight A’s at this rate, I’m taking Calc 2 as well.</p>
<p>@ audio, </p>
<p>I feel you on that, but still, life IS tough. My parents went broke just after I graduated high school and I’ve been paying ever since. That said, I still have a near 4.0 and I will reiterate that I think CC is pretty easy. Like cooldude said, it’s all about work ethic and study skills.</p>
<p>I’ve learned that asking for sympathy from people is the worst possible thing you can do. Life sucks, life is tough, work through it and (wo)man up. End of story.</p>
<p>@audioslavery - your right it is tough to balance both. and there are many privileged ones; however, for those that are not, like me, we dont have much of a choice do we???</p>
<p>get scholarships. its free money, its unbelievable how many scholarships are left untouched every year</p>
<p>and if you got a ****ty prof, doesnt stop you from getting outside tutoring -which is free.
and good for you for taking 17 units. im taking 18. but ive seen people do 22+ with jobs and still maintain A’s. so i really cant complain.</p>
<p>lets review
- scholarships = money and time
- tutoring = good grades
therefore with scholarships you wont have to work X amount of hours and you may have some extra to play with. secondly, it gives you more time to get tutoring which leads to good grades; regardless whether or not the prof is bad. Ive had bad profs, but that hasnt stopped me from getting A’s. </p>
<p>in the end your left with your ignorant view that life isnt fair, life is tough blah blah blah
life is what you make of it. when you stop blaming your failures on external factors, you’ll realize you can accomplish a lot.
anything else?</p>
<p>“life is what you make of it.”</p>
<p>I’ll keep this in mind this semester. </p>
<p>Thanks for the advice guys.</p>
<p>edit: And on another note, I did end up having my friend tutor me for Calc1 and he’s helping me with Calc 2. I’m just worried what colleges will think of that one hehe.</p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>
<p>The history of rocks? Might as well take a damn Geology/Geography course.</p>
<p>To beat the crap out of a dead horse, I really think it is different for science and math majors. I was in the military working 60+ hours a week and still taking 4 short-term classes each semester (2 during the first 8 weeks and 2 during the second). That is the equivalent of a full-time class load (12-15 units each semester). At that time, I was only taking General Ed. classes and stayed away from the Math and Science courses. The Arts/Humanities and Social Science classes were extremely easy and did not require much effort to secure an A. </p>
<p>Now I’m out of the military and taking the Math and Science classes I had put off. I find there is a remarkable difference in the amount of studying needed to get an A. These classes are required to cover a set amount of material during a semester. In a math class I had last semester the professor was constantly absent, yet we always had a substitute and class was never canceled. This is unlike the English courses I have taken where I’ve had no less than two classes canceled during the semester for each course. </p>
<p>To completely disprove my own argument, the hardest class I’ve taken was a political science course. The teacher had a JD and Phd from Berkeley and taught at both Berkeley and Davis. He was insane, but luckily he curved everything. Test averages were under 50%, and that even included 10 bonus points for following the directions properly. I did very well though and destroyed the curve on each test. Doubling the average on one of them. But, the class was intensive and required a lot of reading and studying. I am hoping it was good preparation for what to expect at UCSD.</p>
<p>Back to Linear Algebra, my class at CC is about 50% proofs, 50% computation. I’m getting a B in it but only because you need 93% or higher for an A.</p>
<p>@audioslavery - sorry if i seemed a little harsh/■■■■■ like but its the real truth. good luck with everything. if work is taking a big toll, seriously consider scholarships. my friend racks in 2k a semester just for being asian.</p>
<p>@lintij - i hope your joking. consider staying at a CC a little longer. rock history = MUS15 = History of Rock Music. if i wanted to study rocks then yes i would take some other course that may have been geology/geography, but really? </p>
<p>it wasnt funny if you were trying to be funny.</p>
<p>You’re right. Nothing is funny unless you say it is. Meaning, it must be the joke of the century because if you tried to figure it out, then anyone would figure it out.</p>
<p>@lintij - im glad we can agree on something. :)</p>
<p>Yes, we agreed that to make you laugh one has to use mainstream, obviously big, fart joke, hillbilly humor. We agree that you have the sense of humor of a wet noodle.</p>
<p>^^^
Why bother typing that stuff?</p>