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"Freshman please go to a community college to knock out your gen ed classes. I'm telling you, you're going to save thousands of dollars" is garbage advice.
1. "Knock out gen eds" is disgusting. Those "gen eds" that everyone despises and makes fun of are the liberal arts courses like literature, history, philosophy, writing, and critical thinking that our country is so desperately lacking and what got us into this cluster.
2. Community colleges are AMAZING. Full stop. Don't treat them as a throw-away, one-off like this.
3.. CCs are already overwhelmed with students, underfunded, getting defunded and merged (see Connecticut). Their staff are underpaid and overworked. They deserve better than to have twice as many students and no more pay or resources.
4. Many CC courses will not automatically transfer (that's a whole other thing) as fulfilling requirement. You might get the credit but not COURSE credit & then when you go to your other school you will have to repeat a course that you already took.
Then you pay twice. So this "saving thousands of dollars" argument isn't true.
5. Talk to an academic adviser or transfer specialist before you do this. They've literally spent their careers learning these systems. They know what they are doing. This random stranger on the internet and your mom do not.
6. Your whiny privilege is showing. Online learning, when done well, is amazing and has the potential to reach even MORE people. To say, "well my university is online now and I don't like it, so I'll just sit at home and wait until it's real again" reeks of privilege. Stop it.
7. If you really care about your college experience and the university that you wanted to go to in-person, you will pay to attend on-line. Cause guess what? It's still school. And your tuition PAYS the faculty and staff providing it for you.
8. If you really care about your college experience, you will STAY HOME and stop going to bars, parties, and your friend's basement because you're young and think you're invincible.
9. Wear a freaking mask.
10. Vote in November. ALL of above dependent upon it.
