So I'm basically done with my first week of college. I have to say, with a few tweaks, I actually do like it.
Before I felt very apathetic towards college and the whole experience felt drab. Mind you a community college isn't exactly the hivemind of today's leading scholars and it honestly kinda showed in the classes. I hate to sound like an elitist but a lot of the "lower end of the spectrum of learning" people filtered into here. I wanted to go to community college for financial reasons, not as a last resort. And I hated being stuck in classes that felt like they were "dumbing it down" for the people who just filtered into it.
But I was offered to join their honors program and I did. It's a lot better now. My classes are smaller and more engaging and the subject matter isn't so slow. Plus we get some nice perks. For one they didn't want to give the honors classes actual classrooms so we get the nice conference rooms. We all sit around a round table with nice comfy swivel chairs. This also means my schedule is now that I only have class on Tuesday and Thursday.
Honors people also get a private study room (which is kinda under development though) and their own WiFi connection so that's pretty cool.
This was my first day of my honors classes and first period was sociology, which was very open and discussion based. Very fun. Then it was English which was a bit slow but the subject matter was a lot more interesting. Then came TV Communications, my major which was by far one of the best discussions I've had. It ranged from what drives television to censorship to a whole range of other topics. Awesome class. I like the people I'm with generally and it just feels a lot better.
So now I'm a bit more glad to be going back to school and I don't really have regrets for being in a community college. There's unfortunately a sort of air that's around community college which admittedly did bother me but I really don't care now.
Before I felt very apathetic towards college and the whole experience felt drab. Mind you a community college isn't exactly the hivemind of today's leading scholars and it honestly kinda showed in the classes. I hate to sound like an elitist but a lot of the "lower end of the spectrum of learning" people filtered into here. I wanted to go to community college for financial reasons, not as a last resort. And I hated being stuck in classes that felt like they were "dumbing it down" for the people who just filtered into it.
But I was offered to join their honors program and I did. It's a lot better now. My classes are smaller and more engaging and the subject matter isn't so slow. Plus we get some nice perks. For one they didn't want to give the honors classes actual classrooms so we get the nice conference rooms. We all sit around a round table with nice comfy swivel chairs. This also means my schedule is now that I only have class on Tuesday and Thursday.
Honors people also get a private study room (which is kinda under development though) and their own WiFi connection so that's pretty cool.
This was my first day of my honors classes and first period was sociology, which was very open and discussion based. Very fun. Then it was English which was a bit slow but the subject matter was a lot more interesting. Then came TV Communications, my major which was by far one of the best discussions I've had. It ranged from what drives television to censorship to a whole range of other topics. Awesome class. I like the people I'm with generally and it just feels a lot better.
So now I'm a bit more glad to be going back to school and I don't really have regrets for being in a community college. There's unfortunately a sort of air that's around community college which admittedly did bother me but I really don't care now.
