Go Running River Rats!!!

by Pittsburgh disk jockeys of my youth.

Tip o' the hat to O'Brien and Gary this St. Patty's Day weekend.

Hell, I didn't even take the SAT (it was that bad... lol). I gained confidence/self esteem and excelled. I went on to graduate summa cum laude from my university. Community college was a turning point in my life.

Looking to transfer to a Cal State University hopefully at the end of this year or early next year.

Started at El Camino College, then went to Harbor College before Cypress. We went from an apartment in Torrance to a rental house in San Pedro, then folks bought a place in Cypress; don't know how it is now, but back then you had to attend in the district where you lived. Anyway, I enjoyed my time at Cypress.


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Right now I'm taking classes at Cypress but I do hope to graduate relatively soon.

I was a miserable student till I went ECC, I hated school but once I started college I loved it and got really good grades. I look back on my time there with real fondness, it was a wonderful learning experience and that love of learning has stayed with me.

Cerritos, too.

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it's difficult to get into some classes in the UC and CS system, so a lot of people do two or more years of junior/community college to take care of the basic course requirements, then transfer to a four-year school to complete a BS. It's also cheaper and more flexible for people who don't have the money or are working to support themselves.

I've taken a few JC classes after getting my degrees elsewhere. Continuing education is another function they serve. One of the respondents in the OP mentioned De Anza, a local community college that back in the 1980s had a program specifically aimed at people who wanted to change careers and move into the burgeoning Silicon Valley job market - it was highly regarded.

When people try to denigrate state schools I like to point out that George W. Bush couldn't get into U of Texas because of his grades, but had no problem getting into Harvard as the son of a vice-president and grandson of a senator.

Our symbol was a smudgepot and our mascot was a panther.

Got into politics for the first time working for the Eugene McCarthy campaign. Transferred to a university when I was done.

University of California Santa Barbara.

Started Community College in 1989 and graduated in 1991.
Graduated from UCSB on my 46th birtday, May of 1995.



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