I don’t think I will return to college after this course

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My return to college this year was disappointing. I am at the age where I should be in an university but instead I am at a community college doing tedious entry level coursework, most of the other people in the course are much younger than me, and the social scene is still deep as a puddle. I don’t feel like I am evolving as a human being at all.

Community College degrees credits just as much as "regular" college credits.

My nephew flunked out of "regular college," then went to a Community College. Then went back to a "regular" college, where he graduated.

Community College is better than nothing---trust me.

You don't go to college to socialize. I always say that.

Magnanimity.

I'll leave you with that. Aristotle explains it better than I can.

At least you are going to college. I never went. Not yet anyway. Perhaps I never will.

Going to college was probably one of my biggest regrets, it was a waste of time.

I was told by others it was going to be better for me socially than high school and that I would find a girlfriend there though most of the ones who told me the latter had not even gone yet. I assume their parents met in college so they thought it was going to be the same for them.

It was a waste of time for me to go to University but if I went to Community College I would probably be excelling in my career now. Considering most of the people who did the trades program I wanted to do are surly a-holes and make double what I make now, imagine how good a friendly, clean, well dressed person like myself would have done? The old ladies alone would have made me rich!

My father always said if you want to dig ditches you need to at least have a Degree in your back pocket because there is no harm it in. I pointed out that yes, ignoring the high tuition and book costs it still takes 4 years away from your career to which he replied I was too young to understand (I was 17). Almost 20 years later and I am still waiting to become old enough to understand the benefit of having a degree I have literally never used.

I had a mental breakdown less than halfway through University and that should have been my first clue that I was definitely on the wrong life path. At least if I was digging ditches I would have saved enough money to take courses relevant to a real career path when they became necessary. How ironic that my career objectives failed BECAUSE I was smart enough to go to university!

Today is my final. It’s also raining like crazy but at least I don’t have to work after the final.

Good luck in your final.

How are you going in the course?

I don't know what community college is.

My time in college was more like two years of collage. I won't say that it was a waste of time through some of the things I learnt and some of the experiences I faced both good and bad, though the bad ones were bad and nearly cost me my life if God had not interviened with precise timing, but I do say that looking back, though I completely messed up educationally, and it seems like I may have wasted two years of my time... But did I? Because experiences in life can be looked back on and I did learn things, even if they were negative things... I learnt.
Quite a few traits were exposed in those stressful years. I also learnt things that are useful. I spent 2 weeks in an engineering factory where I helped skim a head of an engine, and I also helped make ramtrees on a huge old industrial lathe. I pained some newly made garden ornaments.
I also visited a few idustries from a huge oil refinery to a small factory.
I saw things, and during this time I bought my lovely touring bike.
So while the time was one of the most stressful times, it was also rewarding for other reasons then the educational side of it.
I gained character.
We can all say that periods in life we may have wasted because they did not bring us forward. Maybe years wasted in a bad relationship or years wasted in giving up our agendas to care for someone.
But are those times wasted? We grow and learn just as much in those times then the times we have considered to be a success. We learn more through lifes experiences then studying the lives of hundreds of other peoples. And we have to go through these experiences to "Get it".
How can we know what someone else feels like in a certain situation that we have not been through ourselves? It is impossible to know what they feel like unless we have been through it.
To conclude, even through times where we seem to be getting no where we learn something. Even if it means that we have learnt that collage is getting us no where!
So wherever we are, whatever we do... We learn. We learn through experience!

Go for it. Do your best. Enjoy! And remember. Life is not about exams. They are little pieces of paper. It is the experience of learning behind those exams that we remember and gain our experiences from.

Lots of older people do entry-level coursework in community colleges - the great thing about college is that it isn't depended on age.

And you look young too, so it shouldn't be an issue, bro.

Community College, in the United States, is a "two year college." It might be equivalent, in some ways, to one seeking an "A-level" qualification in the UK.

"A-levels" is the reason why obtaining a Bachelor's in the UK is a three-year, rather than a four-year, process. In the US, it's a four-year process.

There are some people who are not quite ready for a "four year college" for whatever reason. Or the Community College is just conveniently located.

Community College credits count exactly the same as credits obtained in a "four year college."

I made good grades but I didn’t make any new friends and the life partner others told me I would meet in college was nowhere to be seen.

In Canada it is exactly the same. Furthermore, you can usually use your 2 years of College as credit for 2 years of University and graduate with both. If I had my time back (and had to get that Degree) I would have done that as it is much cheaper and you get two credentials instead of one. I wouldn't worry too much about age as in my city the average age of a College student is now 28 and rising.

Same in the US.

You get an "Associates Degree" when you graduate from a "two-year" college. All those credits you earned at the Community College ("two-year" college) should transfer over to a "four-year" college, and should count towards the Bachelor's.

Sometimes, though, a few credits don't "transfer over" to the "four-year" college.