I try my best, thanks so much 🥺

Didn’t it look like it!!!! Hahaha

@@GilliePicar it totally did

No I didn’t!

Did you end up going to PCC? I’m going there this fall

I am now 22!

I would definitely choose the option that puts your mind at ease! College can be a really stressful time, especially in the beginning. If you choose to do community college then transfer, you’ll get to experience both!

Gillie Picar thanks, am actually still thinking where I’m going first

Thank you so much, I'm so glad this video could help you out in the slightest! :)

Hi! I just turned 22 and thank you so much :)

Wow what are you planning on doing?

Hi Tessa! It's definitely a struggle sometimes but always worth it! I just know that the work ethic I have now sets me up for success. :)

Yes they do! I'm not sure how to get into it exactly since I haven't tried myself but I encourage you to comb through the PCC website because they have lots of good info on there that will help you out. :)

Yes I do and they actually work as an LVN or RN now (I'm not sure which one it is haha)! It's actually my friend's mom and she said it wasn't too difficult but definitely challenging!

I go to the University of California - Santa Barbara for Communications now :)

Yay! So glad it turned out well for you! :)

Hi, i'm late to the party so dont know if anyone will read this: @Some Scopio - You should be very proud that you ended up graduating from a good school. I would even go to say that if you didn't go to CSULB out of high school, who knows if you would've gone onto this path to graduate from UCLA. You never know how the future changes if the past changes. And I'm sure that you learned life lessons from your experiences that helped succeed. In my situation, I was only accepted by Cal Poly Pomona for electrical engineering out of high school (my gpa was <3.0). I opted to go to community college because I was infatuated with the idea that if I tried hard, I could go to a good school like UCLA/UCBerkeley for electrical engineering. Five and a half years later at community college, my gpa was still < 3.0 ( i think 2.79) because of many reasons and no school accepted me as a transfer for electrical engineering. I was devastated and lamented at my mistakes. Out of desperation, I applied for transfer again the following winter except as a math major (they didn't accept engineering for non-fall transfers). Got accepted only at Cal Poly Pomona. Went there and completed 3.5 years. Brought my overall gpa to a 3.27 and my university gpa was a 3.59 and core major gpa was 3.45. When I graduated from CPP, I only felt like I was finally free. Imagine spending 9 years in college, constantly getting beat down the system and not knowing when you'd get out. I felt trapped and FINALLY, I was free. But, the problem is now that all I have is a math degree. Its not what I need to get those engineering jobs, especially in electronics. I got lucky and landed an embedded software engineering job (self-studied programming and basic electronics) but after 2 years of being here, I can see that I'm not respected enough to be given important tasks that matter to the development of my career. So I've started looking for a new job. Its tough because again, people have strong biases towards formal education in engineering.

@@classyjohn1923 I’m going to be honest with you-from the looks of your studies, and the sound of your current situation, you may not be cut out for electrical engineering. And all this time you could’ve been forcing yourself into some ideal, and not remaining open to other possibilities-even outside of engineering. While engineering jobs may be partial to education, promotions and the ability to parlay yourself into better positions comes largely from your experience-as a team player, quick learner, and dedication to the job. Where you went to school matters VERY LITTLE at that point. So, I go back to my original comment-maybe you need to do some soul searching and really take stock of your situation? If this IS for you, then let nothing stop you, and find a way to make every situation, even the bad or less glamorous ones, work in YOUR favor. Good luck my friend-you got this.

@@somescorpio1798 I appreciate the thoughtful and honest response. But, I'm not sure that my failures were tied to an inability to learn the material or a mismatch of field of study. Heres my reasoning: 1. During my time at CC, I was mainly failing calculus-based physics and calculus and a few other classes. The reason was directly tied to my mental health. I eventually passed all these classes. For physics, I took the easier professors. I was not ready to put in the work at the time to do homework and study hard at home. Not doing well in a few physics classes doesn't mean that I can't do well in electrical engineering. 2. I had carried with me, a sense of regret, to CPP when I was studying math and I actually put in time and effort to do homework and study (I was still facing periods of depression which affected my grades). At the end, considering how decent my grades were overall, I would say that I could've done similar in an engineering program and passed. 3. When I graduated back in 2020, I spent my free time basically studying programming and some electronics in my free time. It was actually not too bad. I'm already decent at math so being in a low stress environment to learn really motivated me and I was able to learn and do the problems at the end of the chapters in the textbooks. 4. Having worked in a professional engineering environment, I would say that practical, real world engineering is much, much different than learning engineering in school. My work is mostly software engineering with some amount of electrical engineering in there. You have mentors and resources to look up when you're stuck. Theres a lot to learn. I would not say that success in school equates to success in the workplace. My issues described are more related to biases in the workplace. 5. I would not treat failure as the determining factor for giving up on a field/major. Failure is a natural part of the journey and part of growth. So many people treat failure like its the end. Its not and if you do treat it that way, then you'll just get stuck in life at some point. I wouldn't have made the progress I did if I gave up after failure. Aside from what I said above, I have been sort of reflecting and theres still more soul searching to do. I don't know yet if this field of embedded software is it for me yet but I definitely do not mind being here in the meantime.

I stayed for 6 semesters, not including summer session. With summer session it would be 8! I transferred to UC Santa Barbara and my friends are yet to transfer.

OMG hi!!!!! Thank you so much love, it was so nice meeting you and the girls! Let me know what your tik toks are so I can add you guys. :) Thanks!

It's definitely a struggle to get up early in the morning, but I realized it gives me more time to do things in a day!

Not exactly sure of the one I used but I usually use the copyright free music from KZbin. I just search up chill lo-fi beats!