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Re:The Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the Meaning of Life (... by pvnick on Sunday December 27, 2015 @10:15AM (#10797621)
Agreed, that's what I did. The best thing is that in community college you can spend as much time as you want bouncing around and figuring out what you want in life, rather than being rushed to "get in, get out" like in a 4 year university. It's also much cheaper, and the quality of education for classes taken in the first two years (basic chemistry, history, literature, etc) is frequently on par with that at any 4 year university.
Re:The Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the Meaning of Life (... by meagain20000 on Sunday December 27, 2015 @10:50AM (#10797728)
I went to a CC in manhattan then to SUNY at Buffalo. At the CC I studied calculus, physics, chemistry, linear algebra, diff equations. I still think the education I got at the CC was better. The teachers were certainly better teachers.
Re:The Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the Meaning of Life (... by pvnick on Sunday December 27, 2015 @01:19PM (#10798232)
Yeah, the teachers at my CC were better I thought too, perhaps because they were there primarily to teach and not to research. That and the classes were so much smaller which is great.