Salt Lake Community College Top Questions

What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about freshman year?

Matthew

Nothing.

Kaitlyn

There are always thing that you wish you had known. I wish I had met known what the whole program entailed as well as what other credits I would need before I could even get into the program.

melissan

The only thing that i wish i had known before going to Salt Lake Community College is deciding what i want to major in.

Summer

I wish I had begun the process to qualify for tuition wavers from the begining. I attended this school 10 years prior and had to drop out due to work conflicts. Now that I have started up again, those incomplete grades have caused my GPA to be lower and I am having to go through an extensive appeal process. I wish I had known how much those grades would effect my ability to pay for school.

Kortnie

I wish I would have known the importance of studying and doing homework. I have found as I am in my third year of post high school education that I learn a lot in the classroom, but the best way to truely know the subject matter that I am being taught in lecture is to read the accompanying textbook. Studying on your own enhances your learning in a way I never before could have imagined. If I had known that earlier, I would not have had to re-take my genetics class.

Nathan

I actually attend the Art Institute of Salt Lake. It has only been in Draper for a period of about three years. I entered the school knowing that I would need to take out some hefty loans in order to pay for school. Now that I am in my third of seven quarters I wish that I could have known the stress that taking out such loans would be. I have always been the sort of person to avoid debt of any kind and school is the only thing I am willing to go into debt for.

Isaac

I wish I had known that I would get bored with online classes. I thought it would be nice because I could do the classes whenever I wanted to, but it turned out that it was very depressing without face to face communication with the other students. This semester I am liking school much more.

Kirsten

I wish I knew that at SLCC there are a lot of older people returning back to school. I feel like I am not able to connect as well with them because of the huge age difference. But I also feel like I can learn a lot from what they have gone through in their lifes.

Steven

I wish I would have known the specific requirements for the Westminster College Psychology program so that I would not have wasted so much time taking classes that I did not need. I also wish I would have known the quality of the professors before I had them as teachers.

Andrew

How much it really would have been worth my time to have taken college-credit courses in high school that were available to me. I really wich that I would have taken more concurrent enrollment classes while in high school. It was such a good deal because you only had to pay a one-time $35 fee and you could take as many classes as you wanted. If I would have taken subjects such as English and science classes I could most likely have a degree by now.

Christine

I wish I'd have been told to look at EVERYTHING. Sometimes you take a class you think you need and you find out you needed something else -- and some science classes have alternate versions that are not for science majors, and unless you read the fine print, you might end up taking the non-science major class when you're a science major. And I wish someone would have told me that, occasionally, knowing your professor is almost as important as knowing the material -- so pay CLOSE attention that first week to their personality.

Jill

I wish I had known what my field of study was going to be when I first began attending school so many years ago. I would be closer to graduating and completing my degree.