I’m a proud community college graduate. It let me take my time figuring out what I wanted to do, without breaking the bank. I was lucky that the state school had a program to transfer everything so I got my Bach in about a year and a half of full University.

proud California community college graduate here. they're insanely great - and ridiculously cheap! especially as a lower-division student, your survey classes aren't going to be 500 people taught by a grad student.