<p>If you don’t know what you wanna be, I should go through CC first then transfer. If you know right off high school, you want to be engineer or something and have a chance to go to a good Uc, then you should. Plus, going through community college makes it easier to get into better school, not that easier but you can finish all the lower division courses with cheaper tuition and for CA people, it’s free. Why not right ? spending like 20k for the first 2 lower division years is not all that better at all.
My first year at Uc Davis for electrical engineer was awful. I was so kicking back and relaxing like I would in CC cause CC was way too easy for me. I took 21 units with 2 maths, physics and english and 1 ge still got straight As and a B. My GPA was 3.6 when i transferred to UCD. However, UC is not easy at all, I got straigh Cs and failed 2 classes before I realized this is not CC anymore. I set out time to study, mostly I go to 24-hour study with people around me studying so i can get the motivation. I was even on Academic probation after the first year, it was all bad. Now, i know how to study, I got As and B+ so far in harder classes, My Gpa starts to look a lot nicer now. My recommendation is to read the book, read read read read and homework is there for practicing and preparing for exams, dont copy homework and turn it in for credit, it hurts you badly later on. You should go to office hour if you dont understand the homework, and the prof. helps you one on one, you’ll be surprised how better you would get in the class. Don’t take too many hard classes, take your time, take some easy or ge classes in between, 2 core courses and 1 or 2 ge. make your GPA looks good because the GPA of the last 2 years is your life, you would get a job or not is very dependent on it. Upper division courses are not CC or high school anymore. Give up all the fun, and spend that last 2 years to make your next 50 years easier. Pick the major that you passionate about, and work at it. you fail, you get back up and retake it, work harder at it. I’m graduating soon, but I wanna go for master degree while I have this kindda good feeling about school. Good luck to all of you !</p>