<p>Are professors constantly on your ass and paying attention to when you're texting, eating, talking? Cause I heard at universities the professors there could care less. Or do you usually just show up, listen to lectures, and take notes?</p>
<p>At my cc, it was just like high school. Profs are all up on you about class rules, attendance, tardiness etc. It was just like high school. No phones out, they tell you what you can eat or drink, you have to ask permission to use the restroom, and they hate it if you leave early. It might be different at large cc’s that have bigger classes but my cc was just like high school.</p>
<p>I go to UCSD now and they don’t give a rats ass what you do.</p>
<p>I can only speak for my own experience but it was basically like the following.</p>
<p>I was lucky enough to be part of my Honors program at my CC (Scholars Program) and when I took those classes, it was really challenging and I felt pretty good about them. The regular classes were not so bad- but then again most of my professors also teach at UCLA. However I did have one or two that were out of this world.</p>
<p>My Chem professor asked a girl to “take a 20” outside because her cellphone went off in the middle of the class. I thought it was pretty ■■■■■■■■… sometimes you just forget the thing is on.</p>
<p>The phrase “High School 2.0” is thrown around quite a bit but community college it can’t really be said for any of the social aspects of community college. On that side of things, community college ****ing blows.</p>
<p>Of course academically, yes, it is HS 2.0</p>
<p>Most of my professors also teach at UC Berkeley…so no, it was nothing like high school.
it really depends on your cc though</p>
<p>Frankly, CCC is nothing like high school.</p>
<p>You create your own schedule, study what you want, and have fewer classes/class time (generally). </p>
<p>I failed out of 2 high schools, received my GED, went to a CCC, and now I’m at Berkeley. CCC is definitely different from high school in that YOU are responsible for yourself. In high school you have every parent, friend, and administrator/professor barking at you. At CCC, they won’t call your house if you miss a day. At CCC, they won’t yell at you if you’re late, except for maybe making a sly comment here and there.</p>
<p>Anyway, the point is, CCC is a transitional period for most people. It’s a time to crack down and become more responsible. My study habits and the things I learned from CCC are helping me right now at UCB summer school (Genetics), and I’m just glad to be where I am.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>No CCC is like CCC. It will be socially worse than hs. It will be academically easier than hs. It also depends on which CCC you attend. For example in my area, there are CCCs that are full of kids who like to party with friends they knew in high school while another CCC is full of 50% international students.</p>
<p>@ Cupertino: VERY true haha. </p>
<p>CSM! Go bulldogs! CCS football champions! haha jk, of course. Socially CCC is worse. Academically I feel it’s better though.</p>
<p>The harder the class, the less high school 2.0 it gets. I avoided a lot of high school students (not intentionally though) by taking a lot of night classes and hard science classes.</p>
<p>Its really a mixture of both, but i really don’t like the teachers who teach like were in high school. for example i had a teacher who took away like 1/2% of your grade after your second tardy/absence. and they also took role twice each class. in an hour and 30 min class it seems like a waste of time to take role twice. but for the most part, they don’t have the high school “i’m the teacher and you HAVE to be here attitude” which is nice.</p>
<p>From my experiences, what edbraga said is quite accurate. Professors tend to give more respect to students in more difficult classes.</p>
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Nailed it.</p>
<p>It was different for me though. Throughout the entire time I’ve been in school, even since I was little, I’ve always lacked any sort of discipline and am known to be incredibly lazy. The freedom to do whatever in community college caused me to slack off even more because of how lenient it is (i.e., no one calls your house if you’re absent), so sleeping in and never going to class was a frequent occurrence for me.</p>
<p>But yes… time to crack down and become a responsible adult. Sometimes it’s just a lot easier said than done.</p>
<p>I never had friends in high school, so that was probably why I got a 3.7 GPA with a minimal effort since I’d get bored if I didn’t do my homework or something. Never took the SAT’s and decided I’d just enroll in community college in California. </p>
<p>My first semester I took some remedial classes in math (precalculus, stats, trig) since those were the only ones I was able to get during open registration. I also had never taken those in high school. Got a 3.6 GPA off it, applied to the honors program, got accepted into it, and I got manhandled by my classes during the spring session. Next few classes I took were pretty challenging during the spring session and trying to balance my newfound social life in college with all the work I had to do proved futile and I got bad results. </p>
<p>I ditched the friends. I made A’s in the rest of my courses. It’s hard to have a social life in community college, especially when you’re trying not to screw up and trying to transfer to a good school. You gain a lot of responsibility and independence through the whole process.</p>
<p>No one really hounds on you at for being late or leaving class early at my CC. They just don’t really like that you’re missing out on the lecture 'cause it’s not really a cakewalk as you go up. I mean, the general ed stuff? Heck yeah. I found that if you’re taking Differential Equations and also attending an English 101 class, it is very very easy in comparison.</p>
<p>CC for me was nothing like high school…thank goodness. I attended two different CCs as well, but they were not a high school repeat. </p>
<p>To answer your question(s)…I had a history professor last semester who hated when people talked during his lecture. Well, I mean, he is a HISTORY professor, what else was he going to do? So he immediately told whoever was talking to shut up or leave, haha. Professors don’t care if you eat in the rooms (even though there’s notices in the rooms not to eat) they understand maybe we’re on a tight schedule and make exceptions. Although they’re not going to baby you like perhaps some/all of your HS teachers did, they are understanding. They have a life too, they know what it’s like to be sick, have to miss class for one reason or another. </p>
<p>One thing I did particularly like about CC as compared to HS is that professors are somewhat more open. They don’t mind telling you their life experiences into their lecture, as opposed to CC where they stayed on task and didn’t want “high schoolers” to know much about them. </p>
<p>Is it as “fun”? Well, I suppose that depends on what your definition of that word is. In high school I got well over a 4.0 gpa and had lots of friends, was involved in many clubs, etc. CC isn’t that social, I would argue. Yes, I was the treasurer in PTK for my CC in which I had to attend a bunch of chapter meetings, and I was an editor for a new magazine that debuted last year but meh…it wasn’t the same. The friends that I did gain in CC, I know those people will help me later on. High school friends were just that…high school friends. Once you graduate, unless they’re your BESTEST friend, you grow apart…and sometimes won’t see them again. In CC, most of the time you have the same goals (transferring) and maybe will end up in the same school. </p>
<p>There are some classes that are easier than others, that may seem like the same difficulty as high school classes but others are much more difficult. I was taking Linear Algebra…and…=/ </p>
<p>Hope you have a good experience, and learn how to balance your time…it will be a big help!</p>
<p>CCC is a lot different than high school for me. </p>
<ol>
<li>You’re responsible for yourself.</li>
<li>It’s somewhat less demanding in terms of overall academics. </li>
<li>The social atmosphere is to die… of. </li>
<li>A lot of the teachers/professors know how to teach.</li>
</ol>
<p>i think cc is way better than high school, academically. in HS, they give you all this crappy busy work. i felt like hs was pointless. in cc, you choose your classes, actually do stuff that’s for the class (not just lame busy work), and work towards a specific goal (not just a diploma where you have this specific set of courses to follow). cc was much better in my opinion</p>
<p>I’d argue it’s like HS 1.1</p>
<p>it’s easier
less time intensive
and you get some serious quality sleep in class.</p>
<p>and for me, it was LITERALLY across the street from my HS.</p>
<p>Wow some of you guys have it hard. UCLA and Berkeley professors? </p>
<p>Anyways, I attend an out of state CC (I plan to apply/transfer to an UC in the near future so that’s why I’m on the UC board) and its really nothing like high school. I just finished the first week of my first summer course and there are several major differences.</p>
<p>1) The professor hasn’t attempted to learn our names nor do I think he will. Haha.
2) The class has a very diverse group of people. You have people from different nationalities, backgrounds, ages, etc. I’m guessing I’m the youngest one in the class (19 yrs) and I estimate there is a 40 yr in the class as well.
3) As people have mentioned here, it really is up to you. There is no attendance check, the professor doesn’t care if you sleep, take notes, text, or whatever. There is this girl in the class and she sits in the back with her laptop. Our professor has not said a word to her and I doubt he will either.
4) No social interactions. Throughout the whole week, I think I’ve said a max of 10 sentences to any single person in the class. I am a social person by the way.</p>
<p>I can go on and on but those are ones on the top of my list. I think the most important one that has been highlighted by some is academically wise it is really up to you. There is no one who is going to remind you that you missed your homework or to do your work. Depending on the person it can be a good/bad thing.</p>
<p>“i think cc is way better than high school, academically. in HS, they give you all this crappy busy work. i felt like hs was pointless. in cc, you choose your classes, actually do stuff that’s for the class (not just lame busy work), and work towards a specific goal (not just a diploma where you have this specific set of courses to follow). cc was much better in my opinion” </p>
<p>^^^ What Higherhopes said. I couldn’t agree more.</p>
<p>I currently attend Santa Monica College and the campus, enviroment and professors could not be more different than highschool. Our science department is one of the most competitive around and quite honestly the professor could care less how you perform.</p>