<p>Perhaps my experience is rare but all my professors were extremely knowledgeable and the only adjunct one I had was the Caltech guy I had for chemistry. Yes, his teaching was bad but after talking to him he is very smart and I have had been to enough office hours to make up for the slacked teaching. Before everybody grabs their pitchforks, my point is, is that going to a California community college is superior to going to a public university the first two years. It is a matter of preferring a large lecture room with TAs and 50+students for your freshman and sophomore in addition to the cost compared to a classroom at a CC that at most will have 30 students where the professors come from all walks of life and experiences. I did not have an instructor that was not willing to go the extra mile to help a student.</p>