<p>Yeah, CCs get a bad rep. </p>
<p>Also, let me say this. Take easy core classes. You’re not impressing anybody and it doesn’t carry any higher moral value taking hard core classes that you have to struggle with. Remember: college is about buying a degree. If PolS 101 isn’t going to help you with your degree, don’t challenge yourself with it. Your major courses will be enough of a challenge.</p>
<p>Coot, you aren’t talking about HCC, are you?! If so, small world ;).</p>
<p>Yeah, a lot of kids who go to community college just couldn’t do better - but why is that? It’s not because the /idea/ of going to CC and then transferring is dumb. It’s because people are obsessed with prestige and are embarassed to say they are going to CC. It’s disgusting. Some people here are even embarassed about attending the respectable state university, and would rather put themselves in a mountain of debt (then even more when they’re off to med or law school) to go to Hahvad or some other name-brand, super rip-off (for us middle class people) institution. Smart kids go to Harvard. Dumb kids go to CC and the state school. The smartest kids turn down Harvard for CC or the state school, because they’re not so insecure they’d spend 50 grand a year to “save face”.</p>
<p>Don’t wait until the last few weeks of the semester to start working hard. Work your butt off at the start of the semester so you can chill out as the year goes on. In the summer, get your books ahead of time and do notes for every chapter. I know it sounds stupid, but you’ll thank yourself for it later on.</p>
<p>I learned in Psych that you retain things a lot better if you memorize them right before you go to sleep.</p>
<p>Wow, ITA hardtoimpress. Sadly some people are embarassed by the college they’re going to just because they won’t get to wear a name brand college hoodie with a 160k price tag. Meanwhile, a lot of the world doesn’t even have the priviledge of getting a decent high school education, let alone a community college one!</p>
<p>As for double majoring; the way I see it is you should do what makes you happy and study what you like.</p>
<p>so if not double…how about a major and a minor…is that good?</p>
<p>what should I minor in if I want to majjor in financial engineering??</p>
<p>What’s wrong with having a grad. student as an instructor? My hands-down favorite “professor” this year was a grad. student–the lectures were fun to go to (informative and entertaining at the same time), they had experience in the field that was relevent to the material, they were accessible if the students needed anything, and I still remember almost everything I learned in that class (took it fall semester).</p>
<p>I disagree with the tidbit about double majors, especially if one is considering attending law school, med school or any other competitive graduate program. I triple majored in Classics, Philosophy and Math. Needless to say, it was a lot of work, but the breadth and difficulty of my courseload prepared me for the rigors of law school and indubitably attributed to my admissions into some of the most prestigious LS. Nonetheless, I managed to have a great time in college.
I would say that a far greater ‘‘mistake’’ that one could make in college than multi-majoring is underestimating one’s self and consequently aiming too low.</p>
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<p>I agree. Being taught by “professors” is a hit-or-miss. Grad students tend to be more patient and thorough than real professors. Professors can be disengaged; phoning it in.</p>
<p>Don’t double major to impress anybody. Double major because you are interested in both fields. Easy.</p>
<p>Yet, I still know people that cheat their way up from hs and now in college. Sad eh? There’s always loopholes that professors and others doesn’t notice. Envy them that they never get caught or haven’t gotten caught yet.</p>
<p>How about a 3 year option that doesn’t require you to cram? (lets you graduate with 90 credits w/ a degree when normally a degree = 120 credits). I plan to continue my education after undergrad, so i dont kno, it seems like mabye 3 years would be nice… what do you think?</p>
<p>Thank you for the advice.</p>
<p>thx for the advice</p>
<p>Hello. I do not see how cramming is beneficial. It might help you get past one test, but you will not retain the information and you will not have full understand and you will not be able to integrate it into conversation, thought, or anything of value.</p>
<p>Ty for the tips!! :)</p>
<p>How about a 3 year option that doesn’t require you to cram? (lets you graduate with 90 credits w/ a degree when normally a degree = 120 credits). I plan to continue my education after undergrad, so i dont kno, it seems like mabye 3 years would be nice… what do you think?</p>
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<p>Such a bachelor’s degree doesn’t exist. Even if a major doesn’t “require” 120 credits, in order to graduate, you would have to complete the credits required in your major, core classes, and possibly a minor such that upon graduation, you would have completed at least 120 credits. Therefore, the only way to finish in 3 years would be to “cram” as you’ve stated in your post. Which is something I don’t recommend because taking 20 credit semesters over 3 years as opposed to 15 credit semesters over 4 years will leave you burnt out and spent, and will not impress anyone.</p>
<p>What is everyone’s take on keeping a high school girlfriend? I am a senior in Wisconsin and will be going to North Carolina. My girlfriend will be a senior around here next year. We are close and i will be home from college in Oct, Nov, and Dec. What’s everyone else’s experience?</p>
<p>You can CLEP out of all your gen ed classes and start your major in your freshmen year. No cramming no course overloads and finish in 3 years. CLEP exams are VERY EASY!!! If you fail no harm it doesn’t show up on your transcript. If you pass you get a satisfactory and no grade. All you need is a score of 50 sometimes lower or higher dependent on the school. Lets say there is a 100 questions all you need is to get 50 right. </p>
<p>Another important thing to remember is that they do not take points off for wrong answers. Did not know this the first time I took it so I only answered 50 questions out of 100. End up getting a 48.</p>