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> I'd drop out for the next year. Take some community college courses Harvard students have better things to do other than taking community college courses...

> I'd drop out for the next year. Take some community college courses Harvard students have better things to do other than taking community college courses... it is absolutely a waste of time to take classes that are a joke.

spankalee 6y ago
What classes would be a joke?
- mirthflat83 6y ago
  All courses offered at community colleges
  - asdff 6y ago
    Seeing as they still count for course credit, I don't think Harvard considers them to be jokes. I will take the highly paid accreditors at Harvard's opinion over yours, sorry mate.
    - mirthflat83 6y ago
      You have no clue what you’re talking about. Research more before claiming that they count for course credit
      - Blackthorn 6y ago
        I've taken classes at community colleges and I have a degree from an Ivy League school. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the community college classes, and I learned a great deal from them. I don't know where you got the chip on your shoulder, but I hope no one reads your words and gets the mistaken impression that community college is somehow lesser.
  - spankalee 6y ago
    I guess you're just woefully uninformed then. There are community college classes that could help with that.
    - mirthflat83 6y ago
      Sorry, I've got better things to do.
      - matchbok 6y ago
        What a sad, arrogant little individual you are.
jeffreyrogers 6y ago
I went to Harvard, and I've taken classes at community college. You're either vastly overestimating Harvard or vastly underestimating community college.
- mirthflat83 6y ago
  During highschool, you mean.
  - jeffreyrogers 6y ago
    I took classes at community college both during high school and after I graduated from college. You can learn a lot of practical skills at community college that higher education looks down on. I learned to weld at Harvard through the physics lab and didn't realize how much I sucked at it until relearning it from a community college instructor. The person who taught me at community college was far more qualified.
    - mirthflat83 6y ago
      Wow, your peers must have been very impressed that you got an A in those rigorous classes
    - nkurz 6y ago
      Coincidentally, I first learned TIG welding at Williams via the physics machine shop. One of the memorable pieces of advice from my earnest instructor (the Buildings and Grounds guy who did the necessary welding) was something like "Only weld galvanized at the end of the day because you'll feel like shit afterwards. It helps if you go home and drink lots of milk." The wisdom of his health advice aside, he was a decent welder taught me useful techniques. But when I later took a community college TIG course from a former nuclear welder, I was astonished by the precision the instructor demonstrated. I got a lot better, not exactly because of the quality of instruction, but just from having seen what excellence looked like.
    - andykx 6y ago
      I took networking courses at a community college. The professor was fantastic, a former IBM employee who'd been doing network stuff at AT&T for 20 years. He wasn't a professor, but this guy knew his stuff. It was the perfect way to get some "hands-on" experience with routing and switching. Community colleges don't do everything well, but when it comes to building hard skills, it's hard to think of a better bang for your buck. (Particularly if you live in NY like me, it's free!)
asdff 6y ago
It's not a waste of time to get done with some general classes that you don't care about at all yet need to graduate. In fact you will be saving money. Do I need the harvard version of Calc I when they teach the same exact rehashed AP calculus stuff at the community college and the credit counts the same as taking Calc I Harvard?
- mirthflat83 6y ago
  Saving money? You know Harvard doesn’t charge by the number of credits you take, right? Also, community college credits are generally not counted towards graduation. Why do you think they do that?
  - sgerenser 6y ago
    Most universities accept transfer credits from other colleges, even community colleges.
buwka 6y ago
While in I high school, I always held the impression that college would be full of immensely enriching educational experiences. Courses, primarily those by world renown universities, would be so transformative that they would compensate for the substandard education system of the United States. However, after living with students at various universities and eventually attending an Ivy League University, I found that many of the courses were quite comparable to any simple online course I found on the topic, no matter if it was being taught by another top 50 university, top 100, or random high school teacher. Many Ivy League students worked incredibly hard to attend their respective universities, however, like any other school, there are many that exist far from that stereotypical characterization. Likewise, I know many brilliant people who attended lesser known universities of far less prestige. Harvard students are probably better than average students but definitely not special enough to think they have nothing more to learn, no one is. I would highly encourage everyone to keep an open mind and look for what others can teach you.

spankalee 6y ago

What classes would be a joke?

mirthflat83 6y ago
All courses offered at community colleges
- asdff 6y ago
  Seeing as they still count for course credit, I don't think Harvard considers them to be jokes. I will take the highly paid accreditors at Harvard's opinion over yours, sorry mate.
  - mirthflat83 6y ago
    You have no clue what you’re talking about. Research more before claiming that they count for course credit
    - Blackthorn 6y ago
      I've taken classes at community colleges and I have a degree from an Ivy League school. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the community college classes, and I learned a great deal from them. I don't know where you got the chip on your shoulder, but I hope no one reads your words and gets the mistaken impression that community college is somehow lesser.
- spankalee 6y ago
  I guess you're just woefully uninformed then. There are community college classes that could help with that.
  - mirthflat83 6y ago
    Sorry, I've got better things to do.
    - matchbok 6y ago
      What a sad, arrogant little individual you are.

jeffreyrogers 6y ago

I went to Harvard, and I've taken classes at community college. You're either vastly overestimating Harvard or vastly underestimating community college.

mirthflat83 6y ago
During highschool, you mean.
- jeffreyrogers 6y ago
  I took classes at community college both during high school and after I graduated from college. You can learn a lot of practical skills at community college that higher education looks down on. I learned to weld at Harvard through the physics lab and didn't realize how much I sucked at it until relearning it from a community college instructor. The person who taught me at community college was far more qualified.
  - mirthflat83 6y ago
    Wow, your peers must have been very impressed that you got an A in those rigorous classes
  - nkurz 6y ago
    Coincidentally, I first learned TIG welding at Williams via the physics machine shop. One of the memorable pieces of advice from my earnest instructor (the Buildings and Grounds guy who did the necessary welding) was something like "Only weld galvanized at the end of the day because you'll feel like shit afterwards. It helps if you go home and drink lots of milk." The wisdom of his health advice aside, he was a decent welder taught me useful techniques. But when I later took a community college TIG course from a former nuclear welder, I was astonished by the precision the instructor demonstrated. I got a lot better, not exactly because of the quality of instruction, but just from having seen what excellence looked like.
  - andykx 6y ago
    I took networking courses at a community college. The professor was fantastic, a former IBM employee who'd been doing network stuff at AT&T for 20 years. He wasn't a professor, but this guy knew his stuff. It was the perfect way to get some "hands-on" experience with routing and switching. Community colleges don't do everything well, but when it comes to building hard skills, it's hard to think of a better bang for your buck. (Particularly if you live in NY like me, it's free!)

asdff 6y ago

It's not a waste of time to get done with some general classes that you don't care about at all yet need to graduate. In fact you will be saving money. Do I need the harvard version of Calc I when they teach the same exact rehashed AP calculus stuff at the community college and the credit counts the same as taking Calc I Harvard?

mirthflat83 6y ago
Saving money? You know Harvard doesn’t charge by the number of credits you take, right? Also, community college credits are generally not counted towards graduation. Why do you think they do that?
- sgerenser 6y ago
  Most universities accept transfer credits from other colleges, even community colleges.

buwka 6y ago

While in I high school, I always held the impression that college would be full of immensely enriching educational experiences. Courses, primarily those by world renown universities, would be so transformative that they would compensate for the substandard education system of the United States. However, after living with students at various universities and eventually attending an Ivy League University, I found that many of the courses were quite comparable to any simple online course I found on the topic, no matter if it was being taught by another top 50 university, top 100, or random high school teacher. Many Ivy League students worked incredibly hard to attend their respective universities, however, like any other school, there are many that exist far from that stereotypical characterization. Likewise, I know many brilliant people who attended lesser known universities of far less prestige. Harvard students are probably better than average students but definitely not special enough to think they have nothing more to learn, no one is. I would highly encourage everyone to keep an open mind and look for what others can teach you.