Northern Virginia Community College

Date: Dec 02 2003
Major: Political Science (This Major's Salary over time)
Before you read this, please take in mind the fact that I go to the woodbridge campus, and was stuck at that campus due to a lack of reliable transportation.

I love the fact that the school has very small classes—you really get a chance to know your professors and fellow classmates. But the classwork is ridiculously easy—Im transferring to a four year school here in VA, and don't feel prepared at all for the coursework there. There are three clubs at my campus that Ive seen advertisements for: Drama, the Christian Club, and the Gay/Lesbian/Transgender Alliance. So if you dont fit into any of these, you're out of luck, or you can try to start a club yourself, and get it set up just in time to leave.

Also, I found it extremely hard to get all of the classes I needed into one semester. Some classes that are necessary for a major are only one time a semester, and all the good classes are usually scheduled at the same times.

And, I was told when I registered that they would send me notification of who my faculty advisor was sometime after my first semester. Never received it—when I went to talk to someone about it, seems they dropped my major and no one bothered to tell me. But it explained why there was all of a sudden no poly sci classes. We just got poly sci classes back (still no major for it though), and the professor we have is awesome. Very helpful, and he's only part time teaching—he actuallys works in the field full-time.

The food is okay—its gotten better in taste, but smaller in portions and wayyy more expensive. Actually costs on just about everything has doubled, or more. So far the only thing that I have seen improved at the school to justify the cost was the addition of flat-screen computers in the cafeteria, but who needs computers in the cafeteria when you have a computer lab upstairs? especially when the computers up there could use a bit of updating.