Orange Coast College

Date: May 31 2003
Major: Art & Design Department (This Major's Salary over time)
- If you go to OCC, take SPCOMM 100 with La Mer, whether you need speech or not. Go visit her classes if you don't want to enroll, she'll be happy to recieve you, I promise. (Tell her Tami Tran threatened to kick you if you didn't j/p Tell her Tami Tran told you to visit.) You will not regret it. If you're going into computer networking and security, try Saichek. If you're into fashion, they've got a pretty good program and Amaral, the director, has a lot of connections, from sportswear in CA (a lot of fashion teachers at OCC work at nearby Hurley and Volcom; a few of those teachers got their jobs through Amaral and some were even past students of hers) to Donna Karan-types up in NY. I'm sorta in a major dilemma between fashion and computer science because of all the cool things I've been exposed to here (I learned how to take apart a computer and put it back together this semester and did it alone in less than 45 minutes!!.) Also, OCC's culinary arts program isn't shabby at all. The cafeteria looks more like a nice restaurant to me. Plus, I just found out that OCC's one of the few community colleges that offer dance instructor and world dance certificates. Got pretty good instructors, but stay away from Costas if you… umm… don't take kindly to constant, well, not insults per se, but somewhat mean words at times. He's a good dancer, though, I mean REALLY good. He can teach you a lot of you're willing to put up with his… err… firey-ness? Oh, and they have an aviation program, too. Gotta neat "plane" on the far end of campus for instruction.

All in all, I think this college offers a lot to offer. I really like it here.