When I talk to people and I mention this, they give me such a condescending tone. Some give me a "Well, you'll get to a university soon" or something like that. As if I couldn't be at one right now if I wanted to...

Elitist fucks.


EDIT: my situation.


ive got to "buckle down"...

my 3.0 GPA could have got me to the local state college, but i was just too lazy to do anything about it. I got mostly A's and B's my freshman and sophmore year, but 11th and 12th grade i got straight C's...occasional B/D. Aside from being too expensive, i just never got around to doing anything about it. I feel as if I did just enough in highschool to get by. Oh well.



I do plan on transfering to a univeristy after a year or two, no clue on what i'll study but i HAVE to get a degree....or so everyone tells me.

i figure i need at least a 3.7 GPA in jr. college to get into the univeristy of my choice (im not talking ivy league here)...







will I actually buckle down?? i give it a 50/50 shot...wouldnt be surprised either way.

I had a better time at community college than i did at Penn State.

The world needs ditch diggers too.

Go to a real college!

Whhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattt?

I think you just gave me a heart attack.

didnt help i am a michigan fan

Yeah but its not hard to have fun at PSU. Did you just overlook the 25,000 females on campus or what?

let me clarify, i went to Ogontz, not Happy Valley, but I went up there for the weekends for home football games and just didnt really like it up there.

If you don't know what you want a degree in, you're doing the absolutely right thing right now. It's awesome that you're continuing your education without wasting shitloads of money at the university. I have so many, so many friends with degrees that they obtained because they were supposed to and are working in areas nowhere related to their field, if they're working at all.
You're making the right decision. If someone wants to be condescending about it, fuck them.

the first year or two are the same no matter where the hell you go. why not come out of a community college with no debt as opposed to the thousands of dollars you'd owe on a student loan... just so you can say 'yup, i went to ____ university'.

Yeah, that would be smart. Except I don't think I would do well with the switch, after I had gotten used to a college.

i did really well in high school. i had a high gpa and act score and all the extra things that schools seem to eat up and could have gone to most any school that i wanted to.

i went to a community college before transferring to a state school. when i applied and was accepted to school, i had a 3.008 gpa. i acutally applied to seven or eight schools and didn't have a problem getting into any of them, and at several of them, i still qualified for a scholarship.

if you don't know what you're going to do forever and ever, a community college is a great place to be. it's a great place to be even if you're completely sure of your major. i knew that i was going to be a journalist, but i wound up dropping out of the program because i absolutely hated the stress that came with deadlines and cranking out a bi-weekly paper. i couldn't even imagine doing that daily. it was far cheaper to find that out at my community college rather than the state school.

i know people can be really mean about it, especially if you were a good student in high school. but, in the end, it's your life. if you're happy at the community college, that's really all that matters.

I went community college. Then I went to a 4 year University. The I got a job. Who gives a fuck where you get your education to make yourself better. Waxy does it like this.

lunkin says waxy is a smart man

I have no problem with community colleges if you are doing it for the credits and that is all.

And, maybe your community college is different from the ones around here, but I went to a state college for 2 years and community college for 2 years and the liberal arts part of my community college education was pathetic.

I started my freshman year at UofO and had to really really strive for the A in writing 121 even though I consider myself to be a good writer. I ended up switching to comm. college winter semester for a variety of reasons and I got 100% on practically every paper I wrote, most of them I cranked out in 30 minutes or less. I took a logic class and it was a total joke, I took some speech classes and sailed through. One of my teachers even told me that i just had to jump through the flaming hoops... he knew it was all busy work but that I had to do it. I appreciated his honesty, but still.. how lousy to be paying and not really LEARNING anything.

that being said, my science courses (anatomy, microbiology, chemistry) at the community college were good, I actually learned something there.

When I transferred back to UofO, I was working hard and learning again.

just something to think about. Sure, community college is cheaper, but it's also easier. Are you doing it just to earn the credits, or are you doing it to learn?

yeah, what he said.

and remember, both the classes, and girls, are easier than "real" college. keep your grades up and have a good time and all will be well.

Or you could just pay 30,000 a year and go to Macalester. Like this one dude I know.

In Alaska?

My first two years of college, I went to a community college, mostly because I didn't want to pay so much back in student loans when I finished. That and I needed some science credit hours, and me taking a chemistry class in a real college probably would have been disastrous.