What don't you miss about being a teenager?

Honestly man, and I'm going to be real here, the whole community college transfer thing should be avoided. I mean sure, if you don't care much about your education, then that's fine. If you really are going to college to actually learn things, then going to a state or private school is the best bet. Classes aren't supposed to be easy. College is supposed to challenge you, and make you a better thinker; not be a place to get easy A's and then have some random degree from a program that didn't really instill a work ethic in you.

So let's say you do decide that it's in your best favor to do the community college transfer thing, and you go through with it. You did pretty well in all of your classes, and it comes time to do classes at your new school. You've taken let's say... Calc 1, 2, and 3. Now it's time for Diff EQ 1. You may find that Diff EQ 1 becomes impossibly hard extremely quickly because all of the classes at your community college were really easy. Where before you were working at a relaxing pace, and you weren't doing problems that were particularly difficult, now you're moving rapidly, and the problems are much harder than they were back at community college. The issue is, you're expected to be able to handle problems of this difficulty with no problem, because you already passed calc 1, 2, and 3. This builds and builds, and it makes the two years you have at your transfer school far more stressful than they have to be.

Of course, this example isn't always accurate, especially when you aren't working with complex mathematics later on in your degree. I'm just saying, that if you can go to a safety school and plan to transfer later, it's probably a lot smarter than trying to go to community college and expecting to learn the same things.

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