Asher Tosaka (IM3DJ)
1/5
The environment is not the most friendly. Prices are extensive, even with fafsa, it is not consistent. Financial aid is a hit or miss from time to time and without graduation money deposits or gifts, you’e going to get close to if not certainly bankruptcy. In order to keep up enough money if you’re low income, scholarships are a must and even then you’re not always guaranteed to get a scholarship than gives you enough money to hold up for two or three semesters. The classes are wired in the system of making sure whoever gets all things done gets good grades which is not physically possible. Classes are more enjoyable to learn from when the workload is not a major factor which just destroys the experience and adds unreasonable levels of stress despite there being mental health services. If you’re looking to achieve an associates within two years, this is not a good place to put your all in. The amount of time to just get an associates depending on your schedule is more closer to four years at least. For a bachelors, certainly four or more but expect some delays. This is because the amount of other core curricular activities often have heavy work demands going back to the high stress workloads each semester. In most cases you’re doing one core class a semester just to shine and even then your weaknesses will still be hurting you in these classes and they hurt hard. Trying to do multiple core classes is even worse considering it is often only possible to be passing partially if not mostly on one class while you struggle with others given workload demands. For the difficult in high paced learning and disabled, Disability services are only consistent if you continually keep your accommodation letters up each semester which is easy to forget and not so easy to remember how it’s done. More importantly the social environment has high opinion and belief expression (both political and non political) so much so that some of their classes feel more like activism campaigns than actual classes. In most cases it’s just not wise to be equal in your voice on opinions on obviously biased topics without a debatable controversy opening up so if you don’t like hearing certain things being discussed, you’ll be very quick to learn how to phase out the conversations as noise. Even so, such a thing as education osmosis is still applicable in such scenarios. For those with certain religious or spiritual beliefs, this is not a suitable place especially if you’re looking to socialize. It’s not surprising the amount of ridicule encouraged for certain beliefs given previous experiences but it’s certainly disappointing considering they put up a whole philosophy of inclusion for all our benefit but still get scoldings from time to time. If you’re religious and want to keep your faith untarnished and firm, don’t socialize with people who have grinding opposing beliefs moral or political or anything as such because often times that is the majority opinion here. Moreover looking for friend groups in this college and finding close friends or even partners in a relationship here is not wise. Study groups can be helpful but be very wary of the interactions you have as many people and MANY ages are eligible to attend here meaning many things can be learned, desired or not, from getting to know some of the people here. Consider this a warning, for those whose income and schedules are rough seas alongside having strong faith or even the slightest deviation of beliefs from the general community that are looking to attend a two or four year institution, here is not the place. Being a community college, it’s more transparent with members of a community but people don’t actually necessarily have to live within a mile radius of the place to be attending and for the majority they don’t. So community is a very broad term here. This also means political bias like other four year institutions or universities, is still a very real experience if you know how to read between the lines every other moment.
