Tri c where all your hopes and dreams go to die a horrible painful death
I am giving Cuyahoga College a 2 Star Rating. I attend here for college, and I plan to stay here to finish as a registered nurse. The only way I will enjoy my time at Tri-C is if I keep in mind a few things:
1. In order to get anything done, I must make sure I ask a ton of questions, and do my part before taking off work to spend a day getting no where and waiting for almost an hour for every department.
2. A LOT of Paitents on my part to deal with a lot of the staff that are clearly there for a pay check, and are very unhelpful if asked anything other than what their specific job titles includes. It seems as so no one knows anything about any other department. This college does not function smoothly.
3. There is continually turn over amount faculty so it takes a few tries to speak to someone who actually can help you with any questions you may have. I purposely asked the same question to 3 different counslers and have been given 3 different answers.
4. If you are not easily self taught this school is not for you.
5. When I expressed my feelings on how things are run, and what they could change to make it easier on the student I was told:" Since you seem to not like how we run things maybe you should check out other options" this to me is a challenging statement because of what will bring me to my next understanding.
6. They know their college is cheap to attended, and they know you will come here because of this so they don't need to care about you. Now that I know they do not care, I will be treating everything I do differently. Get the facts, rate the professor before taking the class, call FASFA and make a check list of everything you need to do. Make sure you document every conversation you have with people. I like e-mails because they leave a paper trail.
7. I will graduate, and I won't spend a ton on college, and when I feel like flipping out I will try to think back to these points and take a deep breath knowing once the semester starts everything will be ok until I need to register for classes again, because people are unhelpful and it is like pulling teeth.
8. There is some staff who actually care, however you have to get through a lot of people who are not good at their jobs to find them.
9. You wanted a cheap school, and you got it.
AND Finally the 10# reason why this school is awful, but I will keep attending.
10. This will be my second semester, I keep getting told:
"It's hard to get the train rolling, but once you do it will all work out"
Unfortunately this is true, and they know it. It's a shame that no one cares enough to fix it.
They fucked me twice on my classesalmost th worst school I've ever been to.
A great school with more amenities than seem apparent. They have a student massage program and a culinary program that satisfy the more than basic needs.
They played one grade which made me have to retake the dumb class even though it wasent a class for anything. They are not as flexible as you think. Every week it's some new bullshit with them. Teacher are wild. You get what you pay for. And I am going for free so that says how much help they give me
Great pool and exercise facilities. Always clean on the inside and out. Cafeteria isn't open much in the summer but there are plenty of vending to get food and drink. If you're a student, your student ID can be loaded with money to purchase from the vending machines. Book store is a little small but staff is extremely helpful and nice. The only thing that really is bad, is they hold your refund for much longer than most other colleges - which is because idiots who sign up for school just to get student loans make the policies stricter.
Rude service and hard to navigate website and phone systems. Web pages and courses are difficult to use even for someone who has higher education. If you want to go to a nice community college in Northern Ohio this is not the one.