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THANK you. I went to a CC because I dropped out of high school a couple years early with my GED (would have gone completely nuts if I didn't), and there was no
by silencio 18y ago
THANK you. I went to a CC because I dropped out of high school a couple years early with my GED (would have gone completely nuts if I didn't), and there was no way I would get accepted to the top tier universities I wanted to go to in that way. I've also taken classes at both 2 and 4 year universities throughout my middle/high school years.
All I can say is that there are some awful teachers like the one above saying DOS is Unix and such complete nonsense, but I've also come across some of the most amazing teachers that even my now-in-4-year-universities friends from high school wish they had for some of the classes we share. Yes, the level of education is not the same, but for the general classes, it's not so different, and sometimes can be a unique and nice experience. Plus, you can transfer, and those classes can count towards your degree. Not everyone is in a CC to get a better job, a lot of people end up transferring to such "top" universities like UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford, USC and the like (is it obvious I live in California? :) )
Lastly, none of this is stopping me from supplementing my education on my own. There are some topics that are rarely taught in many places (like, say, Mac/iPhone programming) I'm interested in. I would hope that's the case with anyone and everyone, not just people involved in top universities and Y Combinator :p