Why did you pick your college?

TripleMajor2014
Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:08:38 +0000

I applied this summer, a little late, for the fall semester at a junior college here in Phoenix, AZ. I chose South Mountain Community College to obtain my Associates in Early Childhood Development, my Associates in Business, and my Associates in Business Management (my triple major) plus my certificate in small business entrepreneurship.

I chose this school first off because it’s very close to home, not even 6 miles away. This matters because I have recently developed a seizure disorder that prevents me from driving and using the buses (driving is obvious - I’ve legally lost my licence. My medication reacts with the heat out here so I can’t be outside for long periods of time, therefore waiting for or walking to and from the buses is a no-go).

Next, as long as I maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA, remain an Arizona resident, and graduate from SMCC I will be automatically accepted into NAU, which is where I’ve wanted to go since I was 13 or 14. I am planning to transfer only the business and childhood development degrees up there into bachelors and hold onto my associates in business management – I see no need to further my education in that right now but if it changes at that time I will re-triple major up there.

The + side to these colleges and doing it the way I am doing it is that if I get sicker, which lately I have been, then when I am ready to goto NAU I can choose to stay right here at my house in phx and continue to goto SMCC campus because they host NAU’s “distance learning” and both my majors that I am choosing to goto NAU for are being taught at this campus.

…it’s just funny how life works.
My choices didn’t fall around curriculum, or teachers, or stats, it was mainly what was best for my health.

-Jessie
Future Entrepreneur