Finishing Community College

CalDud
Sat, 16 Nov 2013 01:47:16 +0000

Talking to an adviser is the absolutely worst thing you can do at a community college.

They know nothing and have misled virtually everyone I know. I knew not to trust them from the beginning about how many courses I need to take to transfer, what universities I could get into, etc. The only person I really went to for guidance that I trusted was a professor and honors adviser.

If you’re not sure of what to do, you need to figure this out by doing your own research. You know what you’re interested in. Be an adult and figure it out. I’d be more worried about going into your senior year of college and worrying what to do with your degree.

I think you should get a part-time job if you’re going to have a lot of time on your hands. Or even try for an internship. Participate in clubs.

By the way, you cannot say that grades don’t transfer. Grades absolutely do transfer for people. There’s an OVERALL GPA at my institution, which is made up of my community college grades + the grades I’ve earned at Cal Poly Pomona. Then there’s an institution GPA. All of my credits transferred. Some of your courses may not transfer.

Also, if you can find a way to pay for a university you want, then go there. But don’t get saddled with thousands of dollars in debt if it isn’t worth it. It is mind-boggling how I even thought I should take 60K in loans to pay for a college I really wanted to go to, but I decided to go to a much cheaper option that will probably serve me better.

Linear Algebra I’m assuming is important if you’re going to pursue engineering. I use it all the time in my applied math major/physics upper-divison classes. Only go into a hard science if it is absolutely what you want to do because community college is a joke in comparison to the rest of what you’re going to be exposed to.