How can I stop being jealous of people going to good colleges?
A lot of students from the class of 2009 are being admitted into well-known, great, beautiful, prestigous colleges, and they get to leave home. I’m stuck being accepted into a community college with no stan-dards because my GPA sucked. I am so upset. I’ll be going there for maybe 1-2 years, probably not even making friends because it’s a CC. How can I get over myself?
LOL! You don’t understand the great position you are in.
First community colleges are not all sucky. The one I went to was more rigorous and had smaller classes with instructors who much more involved with their students’ learning than the University where I earned my BS. The University, on the other hand, had large classes that were too often taught by graduate students and sometimes taught by foreign graduate students whose English skills were so poor, I had trouble understanding them.
I ended up with an MBA. A close friend whom I met at community college earned a PhD and now teaches at a well-known and well-respected East Coast university.
You have two years to prove yourself. Getting good grades at community college will enable you to apply and get accepted at the type of colleges you desire and guess what? In the end your the college named on your BA/BS diploma will be from the great, beautiful and prestigious place. Additionally, if you play your cards right, you will have paid less than your friends who started out there as freshman.
So, stop feeling sorry for yourself. Buckle down and prove yourself for the next two years and then apply to the college of your choice. You will never be sorry you did.
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July 19th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Try harder this time…your grades sucked, so your school is going to suck, but if you work hard to improve, you can transfer.
Not to be harsh…I really do sympathize with you…but this is the result. You have to live with it. Ya, it’s crap, but that’s the way education works.
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July 19th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
you are paying the price for goofing off in high school. it sucks but yeah.
i hate the way college is talked about in high school. its so "one time only" like you only have one shot, and if you mess up youre not gonna get a job and be homeless. thats not true at all.
your life is gonna take SO many twists and turns, and everyone elses is too. you just cant see it yet. it took me 3 years of college to see it.
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July 19th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
For your undergrad program, unless you are going to an ivey-league school, it doesn’t matter so much. Tipically a degree is a degree and if you choose to continue and do a masters it will mattermore.
One of the best ways to save money is to do your general education credits at a CC and then transfer to a university. They are the same basic courses just cheaper.
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July 19th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
You need to understand that they worked hard to get into a good school. Being jealous is natural but it’ll get you no where. Just worry about yourself and what you’re going to do to improve yourself. It’s not too late to get into another school. If you do well at the school you’re going to you can trasnfer somewhere else. The plus side is that going to a community college and taking general courses is a lot cheaper than anywhere else and these classes typicaly transfer. Good luck.
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July 19th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Learn from your mistakes. Remember what you’ve learned about the importance of GPA. Future employers and colleges will definitely judge you on this, so keep it in mind while taking your CC classes.
If you do well, you could always transfer to a more prestigious college later. Keep in mind that you (or your parents) will be saving loads of money by going to a public community college rather than a private university, which can cost up to $40,000 including room and board!
Not having tons of friends to hang out with may help your grades, or you can make friends with different types of people since most people at a community college aren’t recent high school graduates.
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July 19th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Your attention is being put on the jealousy you have for these people for something you cannot change when you could be putting it towards making things better. Instead of dwelling in the past you have to look towards the future and see what you can do with it. So maybe you aren’t getting to go to a good college, spending all your time thinking about it isn’t going to get you anywhere. Work hard at the community college and make the best of it. Do well there, and transfer to a university in a couple years. Plus you will be saving money.
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July 19th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Work your hardest at the CC, maintain over a 3.0 GPA, and then transfer to the college you want – it’s easier applying to them from CC than from high school if you have your major’s prerequisites and general education requirements done. Your high school GPA doesn’t matter anymore, so try your hardest to keep the new GPA high.
You’ll make friends; don’t worry. I think people are a lot more genuine and humble at CC than they are in high school and you’ll meet all types of people, because college is a choice and most people try to work hard and get along. Just be nice, helpful, and don’t be shy. I made about 4 friends from ages 17 through 35 at CC in the two years there and also met my boyfriend there. I didn’t bother joining any clubs, though, and probably won’t ever.
I was really upset and didn’t want to go to CC too when I was out of high school; because I had failed some classes in high school, I got rejected from all 4-year colleges to which I applied. The first semester at CC I wasn’t even a full time student and didn’t try. Then I saw a counselor, picked a major, tried to keep my grades up (above 3.0), and I’m transferring to UCLA now.
Good luck!
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July 19th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
After adequately kicking yourself for not being serious enough about investing in your future while in h.s., vow to yourself that you’re going to work hard – and make that investment – from this point forward. Then while you’re working hard and taking every opportunity to make your education a good one (because any school is what you make of it, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it – forget the complaint about standards — set your own standards high), consider that you’re giving yourself time to mature – and to make a mature decision down the road — you’re not jumping into one school (as your friends are) for what might not be perfectly valid reasons. (There’s a lot of luck involved in whether things work out well, or not so well, for them. They’re going in rather blindly, picking schools based on "reputation" and other image and "status" factors. You have the chance to take the time to really check out your target schools, based on what YOU learn about higher education. In community college, you’ll learn what you like and don’t like, you’ll learn what to look for. You’ll even learn whether your career choice, or choice of academic program, is right for you. People tend to switch majors; a huge percentage end up not even working in the field they got a degree in. Explore, investigate, listen, and learn while you’re going to that community college. Find out where your professors went to college; talk to your friends when they come home from Prestige U. during breaks: some will love their schools, some will be unhappy, some will have horror stories, some will be stressed out over the pressures at Ivy U. (I studied at one Ivy League univ. where the line among the knowing was "This U. is the easiest of the Ivys to get into, but the hardest one to stay in.") — Work hard; it will be worth it. And good luck.
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July 19th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
You should realize that college is an enabling factor, not a guarantee for success in life. Even if you elected not to transfer to a four year program, there are excellent, well-paying careers such as nursing that often originate in a two-year program.
If you want to something to be thankful for, at least you won’t be smothered by educational debt as you head into the roughest economic period of the modern era.
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July 19th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
LOL! You don’t understand the great position you are in.
First community colleges are not all sucky. The one I went to was more rigorous and had smaller classes with instructors who much more involved with their students’ learning than the University where I earned my BS. The University, on the other hand, had large classes that were too often taught by graduate students and sometimes taught by foreign graduate students whose English skills were so poor, I had trouble understanding them.
I ended up with an MBA. A close friend whom I met at community college earned a PhD and now teaches at a well-known and well-respected East Coast university.
You have two years to prove yourself. Getting good grades at community college will enable you to apply and get accepted at the type of colleges you desire and guess what? In the end your the college named on your BA/BS diploma will be from the great, beautiful and prestigious place. Additionally, if you play your cards right, you will have paid less than your friends who started out there as freshman.
So, stop feeling sorry for yourself. Buckle down and prove yourself for the next two years and then apply to the college of your choice. You will never be sorry you did.
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Personal experience
July 19th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
hi Kelly H, theres a good answer here
http://1centralx.co.cc/how-can-i-stop-being-jealous-of-people-going-to-good-colleges-7
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