<p>Small classes are a huge advantage of community colleges. I find it much, much easier to learn when I'm in a group of 20-40 students actively participating, instead of in a gigantic lecture hall with a PowerPoint up on the screen and a tiny speck professor/TA droning on in front while 2/3 of the class is playing on their laptops.</p>
<p>By far the worst/least interesting class I'm taking this semester at UAF is a 100-level freshman anthropology class (grad requirement). It's no coincidence that it's also one of those gigantic lecture hall snore-fest PowerPoint classes. I spend the whole class period surfing the Web and still have a B+ in the class.</p>
<p>There was no way I could get away with something like that at the community college I transferred from - there would be maybe 20 people in most classes, if that.</p>