Community college

Community College or University As a senior, would you prefer going to a community college next year, or a university? While some similarities between a two-year community college and a four year university are evident, the differences are salient. College is very important schooling, therefore whichever college you decide to attend, is a strong choice. Both of the colleges have students from right out of high school ranging from ages 18 to 22. Most students attend college the following…

Rich Mountain community college is a very good college if you want to be posting a career in the medical field it offers different programs. There’s a few different locations so find one close to you if you don’t to be far from home because being close to home could mean everything to someone. The cost could help with a lot of financial problems because it's affordable. Rich Mountain is a very good college of nursing it offers RN, LPN, CNA, nursing assistant, medical records technology, and…

path is good or bad depends on what the experience is and what you do regarding it but in my life I’ve had some really rough experiences. One of these experiences is choosing the right college to help me with my first step on a journey of a thousand miles. I hope that my experience at the Rockingham Community College will be one I will never forget because I get to make friends, meet new teachers and maybe help others if I can. That experience started when I graduated from South Stokes and the…

While I was attending Community college at Cosumnes River College I encountered a dilemma. My father had been injured while on the job and could no longer provide for our family. My family’s income had basically been cut in half, while I was still in college. Now I had been paying for my own expenses in terms of college, transportation, and other expenses with a part-time job and helping out my parents with the occasional bills, but with my father’s income out of the loop I would have to do…

two years of college at a community college. I applied to the universities I had in mind during my final year in high school and got accepted into all of them. Unfortunately, the cost was too much to go to any of the colleges, and the scholarship money was barely enough to pay for an entire year. The Honors College Fellows Scholarship was awarded to me, and the Honors College at Lone Star College-North Harris would cover the cost of my first two years of college. It was an Honors College at this…

Porter, Eduardo. "The Promise and Failure of Community Colleges." The New York Times 17 Feb. 2015: 1-5. Web. This article touches on the downside of community colleges. Community college director, Thomas Bailey makes an argument that “Community colleges have the students with the greatest problems-yet they get the least resources.” The article also pulls in a few statistics on graduation rates between community colleges and 4 year universities. Only 22 percent of these students graduated from a…

I personally think that community college is not easy and I can't even imagine how hard a University may be as well. In college we face a bunch of hard obstacles, challenges, stress, and even wanting to give up easily, but we have to keep our heads up. Based on the article, “5 Pressing Issues Facing Community College Students Today” there are quite a lot of issues students face when attending a community college. For example, the tuition, even though is just two years it’s still expensive. I was…

It's finally coming to an end. Both high school and my first pregnancy. What are my plans? Let me break it down. I start college in the fall. My daughter will be two months old. I also have to work over the summer so forget my plan of breastfeeding and being with her for those entire two months. I now have to find her a sitter that I can actually trust. I have to work so that i'm able to not only get to school myself but get her to her appointments. I can pay all my bills and living expenses…

Current Students 1.) The El Paso Community College website is filled with an abundance of resources to help out its college attendees. It embodies the EPCC Tejano spirit by outlining the website in teal. One Tab titled current students provides online users with shortcuts, and easier access to classroom resources. The website includes information about campus life. Blackboard and My EPCC E-mail are the most commonly used resources. Upon checking my emails, I realized that most of the messages I…

public colleges are more accepting to student however, they do have certain criteria that one must have to enter.…