<p>I'm a rising sophomore, and I'm taking Comparative Religions at a CC this summer. It'll be sixteen three-hour classes over eight weeks, and most of the ratemyprofessors.com reviews say that the professor is great but a tough grader. I'll be taking classes at this CC every quarter in addition to my HS course load. I know that I shouldn't treat the CC as a "second high school" and that the workload and lecture/note taking methods are different in colleges. Does anyone have tips on taking CC courses? How have you been treated by classmates? Has it been essential to reveal your age to classmates you know casually? Has anyone youve met resented being put on the same level as a high school student?</p>
<p>I'm taking Calculus at a CC this summer and honestly, I've never had such a stupid teacher in all my life. Our quizzes are open book,notes, and with a partner. Same goes with tests except she lets us take it home and do it. Our tests were due last thursday, but then she decided to cancel class so our take home tests are due today.I know I'm probably lucky I have a teacher like this, but classes at CCs are usually like a regular class in high school except everyone is really quiet and the high schoolers are usually the smartest in the class. This applies to my CC and I want to assume it applies to yours also. Overall, don't stress about it.</p>
<p>CCC(ourses)'s are usually a little bit more harder than HS honor classes. Although, of course, there are some profs that will treat you at a university level.</p>
<p>I've taken many courses at the community college because my high school is on campus and i have to as electives. They're generally an easy A and everyone in my school considers them to be joke classes or a free period. Most of the time they're extremely simple and take a lot less work than our classes in hs. I should mention that I go to a magnet school though, so I assume our courses are harder than a normal high schools. </p>
<p>With regards to stating your age, you don't have to. In most of my classes the teacher never asks anything like this. If that is the case and the class is purely academic you might want to tell the teacher (and just the teacher) you're still in high school as an excuse for other things. Trust me it works. For example, my friend got to retake all her tests and quizes for her psych class because "she was so busy with all the work of senior year. filling out applications for college and scholarships and taking 8 other classes is just so much!" I'm guilty of this too, I used the fact that i'm still in high school to get my econ final date changed for me even though he specifically stated he would not make exceptions for anyone. =) On the other hand, if your teacher does ask something with regards to your age/status you can just say the truth and say you're still in high school. In some situations I've done this and then most the kids in the class consider me smart and a geek since i'm taking courses with them and they wont talk to me. Other times they're pretty chill about it an don't really give it a second thought. I found the best question was "What's your major?" because you can just make up an answer, say what you want to major in, or give them (if available) your high school major (i.e. I'm a mechanical engineering major at my school so I would say mech. eng.). </p>
<p>I hope this helped.</p>
<p>One of my teachers made us introduce ourselves, and then every one was amazed that I was in high school. Not a big deal.</p>
<p>at my cc, i never told anyone i was in high school. i took night school classes last quarter, and i was definitely the youngest person in my classes. so people might have been able to tell, but i dont really know. the professors made some jokes about my age, but it wasnt a huge deal. the average age at my cc is about 21 or so, so i was really not too far from that. but the people in night school were older (30s and 40s) so my age stood out more. </p>
<p>at least at my cc, its a lot harder to get an A than it is at high school. for my anthropology class, the cutoff was a 98% for an A. i had a 96 on the midterm and a 95 paper average, which would definitely be an A at my high school, but it was an A- for this class. basically all the classes are like that. so even though the material might be somewhat easier than high school material, you basically have to know it perfectly. also, unlike at my high school, virtually no math teacher at the cc allows calculators, which makes it a lot harder for me. overall i think that the cc is harder than normal high school classes, and also harder than some ap classes at my school.</p>
<p>for comparative religions, i would take a lot of notes while the teacher is lecturing. hopefully you get a teacher that writes stuff on the board. write whatever s/he writes on the board and also the important things they talk about. if you are assigned chapters out of a textbook, it really helps to read them before class because then you have a better idea of what is important and what to put in your notes. also go to the "study sessions" if your professor has them before a test. for my classes, they werent required so a lot of people blew them off in my classes, but we ended up getting a lot of hints of what would be on the test so they were very useful. hope this helps, good luck.</p>
<p>Learn how to use the cornell note taking method.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot, everyone. :)</p>