Columbia College - Chicago

Date: Feb 24 2010
Major: Video/Media (This Major's Salary over time)
I studied film at Columbia for a year before transferring out. Columbia College Chicago (or CCC for short) was a waste of my time and money.

While at CCC, I took a communication class taught by a poetry student who was working on their master's. In that class we watched an episode of Family Guy, saw the Anamatrix. While that might be a fun break, it's not a productive use of my time and my money.

The one math class that I took (Quantitative Literacy) was useless, the professor could hardly be heard and didn't give a care when I asked him for help.

My psychology course was a extreme waste of my time, we spent more time on pseudoscience like lying down in Grant Park while she beats a drum around us, she asked us what we felt during that (I thought that it was just a waste of my time and money.)

The education was worthless and when I transferred out, of my 30 credits only 6 counted to the public school that I transferred into. I think it's because they where my English credits, and those are universal.

While the dorms are great, I had an apartment on the 15th floor of the University Center, they are not worth the money. Your fellow students can be divided into four primary groups:

1) The students who are there because they can't go anywhere else due to a low high school GPA, or wanted to say that they are going to a school to satisfy their parents.

2) The very serious who want to learn that are extremely cutthroat.

3) The students who are scratching their heads about why they decided to go there.

Don't believe the hype when they show you the video when you are touring the school, you will regret going here once you take your first class and actually try to learn something.