[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Pessimisticat

...University is such a drastic change from highschool. You go from 30 people in a classroom, to 200, where professors don't bother to get to know your name and you are stuck trying to figure out what the hell is going on through TAs. Your professors are only there to do research, not to help you. They don't even have degrees in teaching, really, so most of them are really shitty at it. Community college is a lot cheaper, with smaller classrooms and professors that are actually there to teach, and have degrees in it. You also get a nice balance between highschool and college settings, to better prepare you for the university life two years later.

In defense of University, I did enjoy my time there very much. The teachers weren't unwilling to help, but logistics just made it difficult sometimes. This gets easier as you progress. Sure, the major courses that everyone has to take will have enrollments in the hundreds and be in massive lecture halls, but the further into your education you get, the more things become like they were in back in college. I took a number of classes in Nordic Studies, often with no more than 10 other people, and got to know the faculty quite well. My Swedish teacher would host a Christmas party each year that the whole class would go to, and most people knew about the Nordic Lit teachers fondness for Scandinavian metal.