<p>Lol I’m not sure if it’s the same at UCs but my CC is the worst school to make “real” friends. Go to class, listen to the professor lecture for 80 minutes and then go home.</p>
<p>Theyre just mad that you got to save 24,000 dollars. Seriously man ,middle class families are going to community college since college is so expensive right now</p>
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<p>I think this happens in all community colleges. It doesn’t have to be though. I, for example, have noticed that if I take a class that’s all lecture, rarely do I make friends. You talk to some people, but it lasts about a minute. So I try to take classes that have groups and rely on participation. I only just realized that this semester unfortunately.</p>
<p>thisislife said “Theyre just mad that you got to save 24,000 dollars. Seriously man ,middle class families are going to community college since college is so expensive right now”</p>
<p>This, exactly!</p>
<p>Except that with my kids it’s not $24,000 I am are saving, it’s more like 2 x $30,000 (for tuition and living expenses) per year for 2 years, which is $120,000!</p>
<p>Apparently those stats get rejected to Berkeley. That’s the main reason I went the CC route. 1 year transfers ftw.</p>
<p>Someone earlier hit the nail on the head. It’s mostly CC students who give community colleges the negative stigma. Most people in UC’s couldn’t care less about us. I have a friend who attends Berkeley. The only thing he knows about CC is what I tell him, or what transfer students in his classes tell him, and thus people in UC’s will have a negative perception of us.</p>
<p>Perhaps another negative social stigma is that many CC students are unmotivated and lazy, which is true for the most part. I have met very few people who are truly motivated to succeed, not just in school, but in life.</p>
<p>on the money^^</p>
<p>I spent my first few years at a CC and then transferred out. While there are numerous disadvantages to attending, being able to save thousands of dollars for basic prerequisite classes is a huge advantage to older students like myself who are in charge of their own financial decisions. </p>
<p>With that said, I think attending a CC is what you make of it. Surround yourself with students who want to work hard to get out and you too will have success. Get good grades, attend transfer workshops, etc. I was around some really smart CC students last year who are all attending UC’s now. Surround yourself with the slackers, wanna-be-gangbangers, real gangbangers, and well, you will get what comes to you.</p>
<p>Loved community college, great professors, small classes, and cheap. I’m sure there were plenty of crappy classes there but I did my research and avoided them, found the best teachers and only took their classes. Surrounded myself with smart motivated people and stayed motivated myself. My fellow transfers always look at me slacked jawed when I tell them the classes here aren’t harder or that CC had better variety in our major.
Now I love UCSD too, I guess I just like school. As for people here at UCSD being negative about it, never seen any, but the last incoming class was about 40% transfers so it’s not like we are a small minority.</p>