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kpow
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Is it worth it to have two crappy years at a community college to save up some money to maybe earn your masters at a top notch school?
Nov 15 2009 9:43PM
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yellav
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if by "is it worth it" you mean the best way to go about things, then yes.
Nov 15 2009 9:48PM
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dwhite
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if everything works out well in the end...why not
Nov 15 2009 10:00PM
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Dosh
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there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. most people have no idea what they want to study the first two years of college anyway so just take some gen ed courses and you are all set to transfer the credits when you choose to.
Nov 15 2009 10:02PM
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troublemaker3
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i think its the best route, for more reasons than just the money you will save

Nov 15 2009 10:26PM
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Pawelko
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If you get your own apartment with a couple of your buddies you will probably have more  fun there than living in a dorm at a 4 year school.
Nov 15 2009 10:56PM
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BdoubleU
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ha im doing that right now and as a freshman ... I don't regret it at all.

have an apartment with 2 friends and don't have to fuck with an RA smelling my back to back blunt sess.

Plus as mentioned...it's usually the first year or two to figure out what you really wanna settle into for a major. I for one am still not completely positive
Nov 16 2009 1:05AM
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OAK_TREE
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i would agree with going to community college. i went to a 4 year school for 3 years, had shitty grades but had a blast. now i'm finishing up and realized that i should have just went to a 2 year school and saved money time and by now i would be making money. so if you weren't too fond of school in high school just go to a community college and if you want more education after those two years go to a 4 year school and finish up.
Nov 16 2009 11:52AM
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soulskier
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i went to a party school for business for a year and a half, and now i'm at a community college
i'm down with business now, and going into cj
this schools known for the cj program, and academy
i would have been better off starting here in the first place
Nov 16 2009 11:58AM
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natekeyes
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im not saying anything bad about community college but i believe that if you go to a real college you can get a much better education. then you can maybe get a scholarship to like an ivy league school or something which will help u excel in life so much

Nov 17 2009 3:02PM
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rockjumper
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wrong. community college is great. with out it i prob could not afford to go for a masters. the reason i dicided to go to a CC at first was because i was signed up for daul enrollment. at CC and state college.. when i looked at the course selection some of the same classes at state where at CC with the same instructor. fuck paying three times as much. A kid i went to CC with transferred to WPI. hes a ME now. community college is a great place to start.
Nov 17 2009 3:09PM
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dbricknasty
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like already stated, CC is a great place to start if you do not know what you want to do yet, or if you want to save some money and then transfer to a 4 yr school
Nov 17 2009 3:12PM
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prontocuts.com
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Yup yup

My school has a better engineering program then most private colleges. We have CNC milling machines, laser cutters, etc. 1 of the few MIT built labs in the world.
Most of my teachers are also teachers at private schools. My econ teacher teaches at a $40,000 a year school, and my writing teacher is an old investigative journalist that has made documentaries

Community college is ftw
Nov 17 2009 3:13PM
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sTr8_JiBbiN
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yes only if you know your going to get into the "top notch school"
Nov 17 2009 3:15PM
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NW_Rider
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The only thing you will really be missing out on by going to a CC is the life experience. It has been 4 years since I lived in the dorms, and I used to hate having an RA and everything, but looking back on it, it was probably the most fun year of my life. Everyone's doors are always open, its like a crew of 40 people that all hang out (or how ever many people are on your floor), and its always easy to find tons and tons of awesome parties. Plus it just helps build up a huge friend base which is always nice seeing people you know in classes, random parties later on, connections and so forth.You will get just as good gen ed classes at CC, but I think that living in the dorms is one of the greatest experiences you can have. Something about getting away with stuff behind the RA's back as well just makes things more fun, although they are usually pretty cool and reasonable. If you are strapped for cash, CC may be the way to go, but look up on scholarships as well, you can find a bunch of them for random shit and they add up just for writing like a 2 page essay, I got close to 5 thousand dollars my first 2 years. What ever you choose though, you can't really go wrong.
Nov 17 2009 3:15PM
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sTr8_JiBbiN
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and do well there
Nov 17 2009 3:15PM
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rockjumper
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i feel the same way about the CC i went to. they had a better physics dept than state and with some of the teaches i felt they were more experienced than the one at state. i took a criminology class with the sheriff of that county as an instructor. he was one of the best instructors i have ever had.
Nov 17 2009 3:36PM
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skiminnesota
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im not going to try and make my CC sound like an Ivy league school. (neither did you)

most of my professors have taught at "better" schools, and are now teaching at CC because they like the smaller classes and the freedom they have. English prof taught at a spendy private school before but likes this more. business prof has PHD teaches both at my school and the U of M, but prefers teaching at the CC's

Nov 17 2009 3:40PM
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prontocuts.com
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where you going? im up at century college in WBL
Nov 17 2009 3:42PM
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skiminnesota
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haha im in the ghetto. North Hennepin Community College. in brooklyn park.
Nov 17 2009 3:44PM
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zachimo
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With community colleges, you don't get the real university feel and lose out on a lot of the networking/orientation opportunities that the universities offer. I went straight to Uni and I find that I have a big advantage over the transfer students that spent their first 2 years at a community college. In Vancouver, colleges are looked upon as another year of high school and it's just lame.

Just my opinion tho
Nov 17 2009 3:44PM
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gmack24
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wow exact same here man...still finishing up though...those 3 years of nonstop partying getting laid have prolonged my graduation date but if you take life too seriously, well... you'll never get out alive
Nov 17 2009 3:48PM
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[~_~]
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Does any of that stuff even matter? As in, is it worth paying all that extra money for it?
Nov 17 2009 3:51PM
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zachimo
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The opportunity to talk to professionals, build relationships, potentially land internships, and have a job lined up right after you graduate or sometime there after if you choose to travel? yeah i think it's very important. If you're taking business courses or enrolled in faculties where jobs are super competitive, it makes it much more beneficial to go to university.
Also, you'll be building relationships with students that will be making millions and can potentially help you along the way.
I've got a friend that already has a job with Goldman Sachs in New York.
Nov 17 2009 4:02PM
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CKpolicy
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just out of curiosity, how old are you?
Nov 17 2009 4:05PM
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[~_~]
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hmm good point. I've never seen myself ever having a business job. Besides, doing community college for 2 years, then transferring to a film school could still give me the same types of connections.

Although, I've heard nothing but bad things about living in dorms.
Nov 17 2009 4:06PM
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rockjumper
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it also depends on what CC you go to. the one i went to had a few dorm halls. iy was a pretty big campus.  interacting with other students is pretty much the same at state.
Nov 17 2009 4:09PM
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0123456789
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i went for a year and transfered to a school for what i really want to do, and i do not regret it whatso ever, infact it may have been my best decision ever.  also the cc i went to was def harder with my classes, than the school im at now, adn its a full on university.
Nov 17 2009 4:11PM
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ski_ENDUB
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i did a year at cc then transfered to a university and lived in the dorms. It was a nice little transition actually. I had already gotten used to what college classes were like and gotten into classes that can be really hard to get into at a university. so you can go to CC then transfer and live in the dorms and be just fine
Nov 17 2009 5:30PM
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