A place where I went as a hope to transfer to a university as a junior. I earned an associates degree in three different subjects, and I soon realized that there are absolutely no employers who really give a rat's ass about an AA degree. I got accepted to a UC school that costs 27k a year and had to decline my admissions due to the cost.
College is simply too time consuming and expensive for what it is. Many of my buddies are graduating with BA's, MA's and are in some serious, reversible debt reaching close to 100k. Don't fall into the trap of thinking college is the only way to be successful. Create your own business or invest the money into something else besides a degree. Buy real estate in this down market and cash out kids.
College is simply too time consuming and expensive for what it is. Many of my buddies are graduating with BA's, MA's and are in some serious, reversible debt reaching close to 100k. Don't fall into the trap of thinking college is the only way to be successful. Create your own business or invest the money into something else besides a degree. Buy real estate in this down market and cash out kids.
What we don't understand is that there isn't a mysterious job market that opens up to us when we graduate from a Community College or University. It's just the same o' lame minimum wage corporate jobs that you could get without a degree anyway. Avoid the dogmatic trap and do something more beautiful.
by Life1221 July 4, 2009
Named because they will accept anyone in the community. Other than online only schools like University of Phoenix or Walden University, they are probably the worst of all college education.
A community college is where you go when you think you need to go to college, but don't really want to. The rest of people think that they are going to transfer to a better school, but will just end up dropping in a couple of semesters.
A community college is where you go when you think you need to go to college, but don't really want to. The rest of people think that they are going to transfer to a better school, but will just end up dropping in a couple of semesters.
The percentage of people who actually graduate from community college is only slightly higher than people who make a successful career out of being a waiter.
by Davidist June 16, 2009
An institution that society uses to further sort, sift, and weed out its members into basic categories of winners and losers.
While some students will succeed in community college and obtain a vocational credential or transfer to a 4-year school (both of which are noble) many will find it just as difficult as their high-school experience and will drop out and work in a menial job for the rest of their life. Others will graduate with an Associate's degree in nothing special and will find jobs pretty much as inaccessible to them as if they only had a high school diploma or equivalent.
Either way, society helps its members find their own level, giving those with merit the opportunities they deserve while preventing those who don't meet a basic threshold of academic aptitude (or intelligence/ambition/discipline) from obtaining a degree they surely DON'T deserve.
Of course, this is NOT what CC's themselves SAY they exist for--it's what they ACTUALLY DO.
While some students will succeed in community college and obtain a vocational credential or transfer to a 4-year school (both of which are noble) many will find it just as difficult as their high-school experience and will drop out and work in a menial job for the rest of their life. Others will graduate with an Associate's degree in nothing special and will find jobs pretty much as inaccessible to them as if they only had a high school diploma or equivalent.
Either way, society helps its members find their own level, giving those with merit the opportunities they deserve while preventing those who don't meet a basic threshold of academic aptitude (or intelligence/ambition/discipline) from obtaining a degree they surely DON'T deserve.
Of course, this is NOT what CC's themselves SAY they exist for--it's what they ACTUALLY DO.
"I hate high school. I think I'll go to community college after I graduate/drop out." That won't work out.
"I'm going to the local community college to get my paramedic's certification."
"I'm going to the local community college to get my paramedic's certification."
by Teacher of Mushy Minds February 17, 2012
A place for "higher learning" that students attend after high school. Students who attend community colleges generally 1) did bad in high school and could not get accepted anywhere else 2) went to a university and dropped out/kicked out due to inadequate grades and then signed up for a community college 3) a lot of older students ages 18-25 (most have jobs, some have kids) 4) students who never got a high school diploma, are 30 or 40 years old, and are just now deciding to get their GED 5) and lastly, there are SOME bright students who attend community college due to financial reasons (me being one of them), but yeah for the most part community colleges suck there is no social life, most students commute and attend class then go home right away, campus is ugly, no dorms, no frats or sororities, a lot of students smoke, in my CC there is a gym, but access is only granted to students who play for the school (thats bullshit), and finally the classes are completely dumbed down. They are so dumbed down it is literally impossible to not get an A if you attend every class and are not late often. Very LOW standards, you won't learn much. Anybody can get in.
Superman: Hey what did you score on your exam ?
Batman: 105%
Superman: Wow, you must be really smart.
Batman: No I just attend community college. I studied about 45 minutes for my exam which was worth 15 percent of my grade and still managed a 105 percent due to all the extra credit I got on the exam.
Batman: 105%
Superman: Wow, you must be really smart.
Batman: No I just attend community college. I studied about 45 minutes for my exam which was worth 15 percent of my grade and still managed a 105 percent due to all the extra credit I got on the exam.
by College Kid who hates CC November 30, 2012
A crappy educational institution where virtually anyone can enter. Pretty much any nutcase or dumbass can join. Most people in community colleges are butthurt wannabe SJWs that are ultra politically correct to the point of retardation, but however, people such as rednecks, hillbillies, racists and other morons can also join.
by Wahrsager350 July 22, 2015
A place where one supposedly furthers his educational prowess after High School and at the end can receive either an AA degree or transfer to a 4-year university. These places can be nice but the majority of them are pretty terrible. They allow virtually anyone into the schools, even if the people are members of the Westboro Baptist Church, the Ku Klux Klan, members of cults such as Scientology, or uneducated, uncultured rednecks. They seriously can't turn anyone down since most of these places are located in politically correct places that's filled to the core with morons.
A community college is a place where the majority of lazy people, insane people and stupid people can be found mostly congregating and these places allow anyone into admission. Being in these places can cause your IQ to drop.
by Digital Preacher December 30, 2015
A higher education which 1.5 million students in the U.S. attend. You can earn a associate degree and become a college junior and earn a good paying job. Also students from around the world attend. Community college professors have real world experience and some have graduated from the most prestigious University's in the states. Some community college's are even better than some University's in terms of professors, cost, class size, and learning environment.
" A Community College student has two best selling published books, a passport with stamps from around the world. His real life world experience and knowledge was because he got an education at a Community College."
"A person who attends the most prestigious University right after high school is working at Star Bucks trying to make ends meet"
"A person who attends the most prestigious University right after high school is working at Star Bucks trying to make ends meet"
by I speak Latin August 25, 2008