Tag: college problems

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impotsiblelife:

Chronically ill young adult problems #10

Choosing a career path is a lot more complicated when youā€™re chronically ill. You have to consider your symptoms and physical limitations when choosing a job or major as well as your passions and interests. Some jobs may be too physically demanding for you, and some courses of study may be too mentally draining. As much as you donā€™t want your chronic illness to hold you back, you have to be realistic about what you can and canā€™t do for the sake of your health.Ā 

And when you try to explain that to others, you have to listen to them tell you to ā€œovercome your disablity.ā€

Please tell me that I am not the only one who has gone through this where you see a class that you probably need, is available, but that means no break or time to rest whatsoever. So, you’re thinking about getting it like:

But at the same time:

Like soooooo mucb stress and more sleepless nights. Like damn, I gotta think of my health and stress levels, but then you also think that the class might not be offered again and you’re like Fck me. Fck college. Fck my limited choices

On top of other worries. Urgh, college hard when you deal with mental health and are disabilitated. Especially when, again, there are so few classes that you actually really need online.

Lot’s of people say to take your core classes at community college then transfer to a major university. How does this work? What kind of degree would you get and would it be from the community college or the major college?

collegesmarts:

Associateā€™s degrees are awarded by community colleges and
Bachelorā€™s degrees are awarded by four year colleges. Four year universities
also offer advanced degrees (Masterā€™s, Doctorateā€™s, etc.) that you can work
towards after completing your bachelorā€™s.

There are a few ways
that people approach community college:

  1. They are completely undecided on a
    major, so they try out a bunch of random classes for a year or two until they
    figure out what they want to do. Then they transfer all their credits to a four
    year school. They probably have a few major specific courses, credits for their
    core curriculum, and electives on their transcript, but they also probably have
    a good amount of credits that will end up not counting towards their degree at
    all.
  2. They donā€™t know exactly what they
    want to major in, but they at least have it narrowed down. They sample classes
    from a few related majors and work on their core curriculum. When they are
    ready to transfer to a four year school they have all or most of their core
    classes complete, have met most of the prerequisites for their major specific
    courses, and have a few extra credits (some of which might count as electives).
  3. They know exactly what they want
    to major in so they complete their associateā€™s degree. They graduate from the
    community college and when they transfer to a four year college they are
    usually core curriculum complete, have taken all/most of the prerequisites for their
    major specific classes, and have met their elective requirements.

In order to earn your
associates, you have to take more than just your core classes. You need to
know what you want to major in and complete courses in that subject, as well as
take elective courses.

If you take a few classes at community college, but donā€™t
complete your associateā€™s degree, when you transfer youā€™ll just have one degree
from the four year school after you complete your bachelorā€™s.

Hereā€™s some more info
on CC and Transferring:

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