I also wonder how easy it is to be a full-time student at a two-year community college; by nature these schools cater to part-time students with jobs and other obligations.
And I still have a very difficult time figuring out why anyone would go so far out of his/her way to attend a community college that's not in his/her own hometown. IMHO, the primary reason to attend a community college is to get a degree without having to put the rest of your life on hold.
OTOH things might be very different in that area of the country.
It's actually very easy to be a full-time student at a community college; both my brothers are doing it, while working part time. It's no different than being a full-time student at a university. (I am also a full-time student, but as I'm a full-time distance learning student I don't count in this scenario; however, if I were attending on a campus, I would definitely be full time.) I have a third brother that attended community college full-time twice, for two different degrees; there are plenty of programs that are every bit as time-intensive as anything at a four-year university
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Community colleges aren't university-lite; they're focused an entirely different way. That's certainly interesting to hear. (And I of course don't mean to disparage 2-year universities; it's just that, in my experience with them, they mainly functioned as semi-universities for people without the luxury of being full-time students. With more 4-year universities delving into more accessible instruction modes such as online classes, I'm not surprised to see this line blurring
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When I was in high school I perceived community colleges the same way -- that they were there for people to get easy degrees, or credits toward a degree, less expensively and more flexibly than your standard four-year university. My father has worked for the state board for community and technical colleges for our state (Washington) for almost thirty years, and I learned to look at them very differently over time, especially when I went back to school and compared things to my experience at a very large, well-respected four-year institution
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And I still have a very difficult time figuring out why anyone would go so far out of his/her way to attend a community college that's not in his/her own hometown. IMHO, the primary reason to attend a community college is to get a degree without having to put the rest of your life on hold.
OTOH things might be very different in that area of the country.
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