<p>I hate not being able to just live on campus…and I hate that my school is filled with old people that aren’t my age. When I make a A they say its only because you don’t have kids…as if I made the decision to make them have kids. I hate the a C is ok attitude that is at my school also. I just can’t wait to finish my AA and transfer…</p>
<p>Omg, I’m pretty sure I go to the worst cc in America: wayne county community college. it’s even worse because I went to a 4 year in chicago and I had to transfer because of money issues, so I know what it’s like to have a real college experience. I didn’t learn a damn thing first semester & there’s no social life (and I’m a party girl so this hurt my soul.) The campus is so bad that I decided to skip it all together & just take online classes. I’m DYING to go back to a 4 yr, I feel like I’m missing out on “real” college. Only good thing about cc are those awesome refund checks :-)</p>
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<p>At my CC they got rid of all the department deans. we have department vice-deans but not deans. It’s some weird budgetary work around, but they act like it makes perfect sense to have a second in command and not a first in command. I think its a running in-joke, because all student problems and complaints are are handled by the deans.</p>
<p>The one college transfer adviser for the entire school has spent more time off than she has actually spent in the office (maternity and health issues), but there is no one else qualified to give transfer advice. The worst part is all councilors keep referring kids to talk to her without mentioning she is on leave.</p>
<p>All problems in my CC are blamed on budgetary issues, even when they have nothing to do money. Budgetary problems is not a reason for losing my paperwork. The CC itself is on ‘accreditation probation’ because of budgetary issues.</p>
<p>the faculty and staff insist on using the term “a lot” very loosely. I constantly have to clarify whether they mean “a lot like most, or a lot like some?” They take pride in a lot kids transferring to UC’s, last year it was 6% of eligible students. But all in all, they are doing their best, they do help a lot of students.</p>
<p>I for one don’t get this whole feeling of embarrassment & failure because you go to a community college instead of a four year university. I had the option of going to a couple nearby Cal States but chose to attend a local community college to save thousands of dollars. I have no problem telling people where I attend. Most people tend to forget that higher education is an investment. There’s no point in acquiring $100,000+ debt just for “the college experience.” College isn’t cheap, while everybody everybody wants “the college experience,” what’s more important is minimizing as much of your debt & finding a rewarding career after college. Not saying “the college experience” isn’t fun nor invaluable but nobody should feel bad with saving lots of money & still enjoying two years or more of genuine college fun.</p>
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<p>The only bad thing about CC are the students. There are a lot of low income students and to make matters worse they don’t give a crap about their education. I see people day in and day out that will have nothing but dead end jobs. There’s nothing that depresses me more. I’m miserable at CC. I’ve stayed in stalls and cried because the whole atmosphere kills me. God I’m so miserable here. My mind always goes to, ‘But I’m one of these people too’ and I just don’t know how to handle it. </p>
<p>Haha okay, I’m about to cry right now. I hate this. One more year.</p>
<p>My CC was not bad. I was never in a class where students didn’t care or show interest. Many were determined and wanted to move on to bigger and better things. I had been at a CC from '06-'12 (I was a part-time student) so I’ve seen many different types of students. The lazy ones would always leave during drop/add so my classes were always great. It was usually some of the Profs. that were an issue. I’ve graduated from that CC and don’t regret ever going there as I’m at the Uni I wanted to go to. </p>
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<p>What sucks for me is that the CC I was attending no longer was doing in-county rates for Statewide programs because of budget cuts. This really put a lot of financial strain on people who had no choice but to stay in their programs. </p>
<p>It basically made tuition not that much cheaper then if you went to a reasonably priced state college or university, which sort of defeats the point of going to a crappy CC.</p>
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<p>I know this is overused lately, but CC is what you make of it. For me, a stepping stone to a larger university. I wasted away any chance of a going to a decent college in HS and failed 2x at 2 colleges post-HS. Many years later I have a 4.0 over 6 semesters in CC and will be transferring to a large university fall 13.</p>
<p>Without CC I would of never gotten into a big university or any state school. CC allowed me to rebuild my academic confidence as well as obtain a great start towards a B.S. I understand there are non-ideal students and situations that occur in a CC. But for someone who messed up early in life, they can pave the way for a 2nd chance providing you do the work.</p>
<p>i wasn’t sure which thread to post this in, but i hope somebody can help me out. thank you ahead of time! </p>
<p>my gf is 22 years old and we live in san diego, california. in high school, she was an outstanding student and got accepted to SDSU. she went through a tremendous amount of really bad personal experiences and her grades dramatically fell during college. she got put on adademic probation and had to go to community college to try and raise her GPA back up to re-attend SDSU. now she is done with all of her GEs (she had to re-take many classes) and has over 100 units, but her GPA is only a 2.4 and every school she applied to denied her. she no longer has any classes to take at a community college. it seems like she has hit a dead end. is there anything else left for her to do? this can’t be the end of her college career, is it? thank you again for any help!</p>
<p>^^^
That sounds like me but I’ve only retaken 1 class and only have like 77 credits. GPA is 2.5, haven’t got denied or accepted yet. </p>
<p>If she applied to CSUs, apply to ones that have very high transfer rates (CSU LA, CSU Channel Islands, CSU Northridge.) has she received her AA yet?</p>
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<p>I hate community college.</p>
<p>I grew up in a college town in Florida, so my expectations for college were much higher than perhaps they should have been. I am at this dinky little “college” in the midwest. I hate all the stupid people (6 out of 11 are failing English 101), whining about how they can’t retake exams, or that their instructor doesn’t give worksheets for the exams. IT’S CALLED MOTIVATION, PEOPLE! When I tell people I plan to transfer out of state, I can’t this blank look. Even my counselor wanted to know “why would you want to do that?”</p>
<p>The midwest is a cultural wasteland, and community college isn’t much better. It makes me hate my life.</p>
<p>I’m likely going to struggle with a decision in about two months. If I’m rejected from my top choice, do I stay at CC another year and re-apply or attend a university I don’t really want to? What would you guys do? Stay at CC and re-apply at your dream school or just move on and accept a university you don’t really want to attend?</p>
<p>Stay at least one more semester at CC and use that time to find other schools. Don’t say “Harvard or bust” - there are thousands of schools out there, some such as good or even better. Don’t resign yourself to go to a university where you don’t want to be.</p>
<p>My state has a program called Running Start where high school students can attend community college and get credit for both. It’s terrible.</p>
<p>The things I hate about my CC.
- People who are immature and have not interest in school nor wanting to build their knowledge.
- Lack of resources or availability of them like transfer assistance, internship/career help, or lack of available classes.
- Completing coursework that will be compatible with schools to transfer to later.</p>
<p>The things I love about my CC.
- Inexpensive access to higher education/instructors that has been of a good quality for the most part, at least at my college.
- Smaller environment/classes.
- A second chance at doing things better than high school.</p>
<p>CC is a mixed bag. I have class in which people are on their cell phones and sleeping all class. Classes that include first semester college students who think it is still high school and expect everything to be handed to them. I really cannot wait to transfer. I hope there is less of that. I really can’t wait for upper-division courses.</p>
<p>However, I have had classes that I have met great people and we still see one another. We are all different ages and some have kids, but who cares! She was the most interesting person in my FR class and kept a lot of the class going. 95% of my professors have been awesome and more than happy to help you, answer your questions, and meet with you outside or class. </p>
<p>I cannot wait to transfer to a four year. However, I would not be going if I didn’t go to a CC. I got horrible grades in High School and I needed to take time to figure out things after I got out. I cannot undervalue what I have learned and the confidence I have gained.</p>
<p>I love my community college
It’s way cheaper. Transfer schools: Penn State
Michigan state
University of Alaska- Fairbanks </p>
<p>I don’t hate being a community college student. In some ways I like it more. I’m a physics major, and I have a physics professor who has a PhD from the University of Chicago, has worked at Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley, and Brookhaven National Laboratories, has published work on quantum cosmology and black holes, and is a brilliant physicist. He’s from a small town originally, and left his job at the University of Arizona to come back to my area and teach at our community college. The best part? The introductory physics sequence at most universities is going to have upwards of at least 100 students. I’m transferring to UIUC and I have a couple of friends who are currently going there. They are taking the same physics course that I am and they’re in a class that has nearly 400 people in it. My class at my CC currently has 12 people. We aren’t just random faces out in the crowd. There is a thing called personalized attention here. And he doesn’t make it easy or dumb it down at all. </p>
<p>I’ve had similar experiences with my professors for math, chemistry, sociology/anthropology and basically every other subject. I haven’t felt that I’ve lacked any rigor. </p>
<p>I’m in my last year at CC, and I’m ready to move on to a bigger school. But that’s largely because I want the environment of a bigger school. There’s no denying that there are some students at community colleges that are not in any sense academically gifted. I work in the tutoring lab at my CC and I see it all the time. There are plenty of students in remedial math and English classes, and plenty of students that are, for lack of a better word, just dumb. But there are also plenty of students that are incredibly intelligent and very academically gifted. </p>
<p>For some students, the financial aspects of a community college just make sense. I am going to finish my lower level courses with ZERO student loan debt. I get grants for school, and the grants are more than my tuition, meaning that I get paid to go to school. I get refunds, which have all been saved for future tuition at a university. Graduating with a bachelors degree and 2 years worth of student loan debt is considerably better than graduating with a bachelors and 4 years of student loan debt…especially considering that a transfer student gets the very same degree. </p>
Unprepared students are making community college a bad experience for me. In nearly every class the professor must field questions from students who have obviously not read the material they were supposed to read prior to lecture. This process slows the class down and prevents “prepared” students from gaining value from the lecture. Also, there are too many students who are clearly not capable of performing college level work. It makes for a rather depressing experience. Hopefully, when I transfer next semester, I will find myself working with more serious students who believe in preparation and hard work.