Advice about college...

[ak]

1) If you had to start college again, what would you do differently?

2) Any special way of studying?

3) Would you still attend Cal Poly or tried a Community College?

[JPWRana]

1) meet MORE ppl

2) same as always.

3) still calpoly. u progress ALOT faster cuz of quarters.

[Tarak Chunsa]

1)Visit the arcade center less often.
Stop eating Carl's Jr....gaining too much weight.
Join a club. Socialize a bit more with classmates.

2)Do my homework ahead of time so I can meet the deadline.
Do homework right when I get home rather than do it in the last minute.

3)Would still attend Cal Poly. I like the quarter system and the small campus. Besides that parking sucks, I rather attend Cal Poly than a community college.

[ak]

I forgot to answer my own questions...

1) Participate in more club activities. Definetely not as much panda express and carl's jr.

2) Always do my homework and not believe that I could learn off books.

3) Very unsure. Cal Poly feels too much like a community college.

[Admin]

1) Start this forum on the first year. Take COM 100, CIS 101, with other prerequisites as early as possible. Find a mentor or an alumna that I can keep in touch throughout the years. Join a campus club on the first year. Try to achieve high grades on my first year.

2) I need to take Studying 101 or something.

3) If I do not qualify for any UC campuses, I would attend Cal Poly Pomona. However, the idea of transferring out from a community college does not sound bad either.

[MandyMindy]

1) Keep up with 16 units instead of 12 units. I am rather behind.

2) Special way of studying would be to actual study alot. I tend to read the textbook and reading material and that doesn't really help.

3) I would try a community college near my house and transfer to a UC school.
Cal Poly does feel like a community college since it is a commuter school. But with more challenging instructors.

[Xavier]

1) I started college this quarter.

2) Tell me about it.

3) So far so good.

[vipz]

1. Not waste 2 years in a community college.

2. I still haven't changed.

3. Definitely Pomona.

[Polygirl]

1) I'm not sure.. maybe try to get an internship or research opportunity the first summer I was here...
2) it's gone good so far....
3) well... maybe searched for another university with my major, without worrying about costs... but I kinda did that, and Cal Poly was the only one with biotech in the public ones... so maybe look to private, but I dunno... that's a lot of times more tuition than cal poly... and cal poly is pretty cool, the only bad thing is that people aren't so involved and that gets frustruating... But definitely NOT a community college

[JPWRana]

Originally Posted by Tarak Chunsa

1)Visit the arcade center less often.
Stop eating Carl's Jr....gaining too much weight.
Join a club. Socialize a bit more with classmates.

2)Do my homework ahead of time so I can meet the deadline.
Do homework right when I get home rather than do it in the last minute.

3)Would still attend Cal Poly. I like the quarter system and the small campus. Besides that parking sucks, I rather attend Cal Poly than a community college.

EVERYTHING YOU DO i do...

[chargeit]

im planning to go to CPP fall2006

1. are there things to do around there..you know besides the horses..
2.how are the parties..if their are any..which im praying their are.
3.is greek life big there?
4.is it safe?

[CPPVisitorCenter]

1. There are definately things to do around campus. You can check out the BroncoEvents calendar to get an idea of some of the activities: http://dsa.csupomona.edu/scis/broncoevents.asp.

2. I will let some of the other students answer that. I do know that the Greeks will have parties.

3. About 1000 students are involved in the Greek system (.5%). So it isn't huge, but there is definately a presence. I know several Greeks and they enjoy it.

4. The campus is safe. We have a lot of the same issues that other schools have. Because we have a high communter population, auto theft has been a problem. The police do patrols to try and counter this, but there are also things you can do to reduce your risk.

[xiaoxue]

campus life is getting better. they keep adding new dorms, apartments and suites and now we are up to 3,000 students who live on campus.

this quarter we had a concert that drew almost 5,000 on campus.

no way this could be confused with a junior college. get real.

instructors mostly are pretty tough. many people in the know place us above UC Riverside and second only to Cal Poly North in academics.

and most web sites rate CPP very high in satisfaction. the campus is nowhere near the crime areas of pomona.

[Sweetyb]

Originally Posted by ak

1) If you had to start college again, what would you do differently?

2) Any special way of studying?

3) Would you still attend Cal Poly or tried a Community College?

1) I would have done a personality test right after high school to find out what my likes/dislikes were, which would help me choose the best major to go into. I would have done research about that major program to map out what courses I would take and how long it would take me to finish.

2) I learned how to study better by taking a reading class (teaches you different types of reading and note taking techniques--the one you use depends on the class you're taking, e.g. history vs. math of course)

3) I would have still attended a community college because I'm paying my own way through college. My loans would have doubled if I had started @ Cal Poly, and I would have grown tired of campus life quick.