Tuition has gone up and layoffs have occurred, yet, there are still not enough classes. We pay for a parking pass and find ourselves parking in dirt lots. Classes are packed with students, and there is trash on the unkept floor due to a lack of maintenance. What the hell are we paying more for?
I know I am not the only one feeling the financial cutbacks and cramped campus this semester. There are frantic faces on students as they hike across Chaffey trying to add courses that are clearly full.
For those of us who were lucky enough to get a class through all this madness, we are finding it hard to get a seat or we end up in the back of the class standing because there are twenty students taking up limited space trying to add the class.
It does not help that professors are trying to be nice and accommodate fifty students in a room that seats thirty. This is only overcrowding the classroom, causing a distraction to the learning environment.
What this comes down to is a huge setback on our educational path. I know learning is a lifetime, but a degree should have some sort of timeline.
Many of us who are planning on transferring out to a four-year university have to restructure lifetime goals because of budget cutbacks.
To add to the frustration, some universities are only accepting new students for the fall semester. So if you do not get the last class you need by deadline you can find your education in hiatus for an entire year.
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