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Community colleges, you need to step up your game. If you have enough funding for $2 million campus revitalization projects on top of your comprehensive academic, career, transfer, financial, and physical health services, you have the money to allocate toward helping your students stay well enough to stay in school.

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For as long as I could remember anytime someone asked me what I aspired to be in the future I just shrugged my shoulders, said I didn’t know, and moved on.

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Community college is the melting pot of diversity for people who come from different walks of life. Even in my small corner of the Earth, I was able to experience a real mash up of individuals

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As the year went on, I applied and waited for many places to accept me, but none of them did.

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TURN DOWN FOR WHAAAAT? Living at home.

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At 24, I can now reflect on the whole process, and can highlight the reasons why going to community college was actually the perfect choice.

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I was already a year behind my peers after spending an additional year at a community college and I was willing to do everything I could to catch up to them. I was willing to do everything, even if it meant overloading myself with extra courses during what I considered my last semester. And I did just that. 

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Learn from your friends’ mistakes.

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Carol House: because you like nice things!

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Because they often transfer to super-good schools and then everyone is like, “Wait, you went to a community college, as though they crawled out of some sort of leper-filled swamp.