I suppose I can't speak for the other branches of the CSU system, but CSUN is rubbish. I suppose an average school falls prey to mediocrity when their funds are drastically cut by the state.
The process of going back to school has painfully slapped me in the face with why school sucks, more specifically, why returning to school as a working adult sucks even more than when you're 17. Here's a short list:
1. Taking completely worthless filler "elective" classes that have nothing whatsoever to do with my major and waste time, energy, and money.
2. Not being able to get into core classes for your major because of one of the following(I might have had personal experience with these...maybe):
- state budget cuts resulting in even fewer classes offered
- the professor is the only person who can add you to their open class, however their e-mail inbox is full and they don't attend their own office hours
3. The biggest irony of all: being approved for Calculus which is stupendous, yet being forced to take PreCalc because there aren't any open Calc classes
4. Being so far away from even beginning to see the light of MechE classes that you feel like quitting. In short, I have to take at least a year's worth of pre-reqs to even get into a MechE class and what if I don't like it then? I wasted a year in school, basically.
5. Dragging yourself out of bed to attend your conveniently scheduled Mon-Friday 50 minute class only to have a fire alarm go off 20 minutes into it and cancel class. Totally worth it.
6. Realizing once again that you aren't actually learning anything in class--that you in fact are the one teaching yourself everything in a time-controlled learning situation. I firmly believe that I can teach myself a number of subjects and what I can't solely teach myself I can learn from tutelage.
I'm almost considering applying to a different school but there's no guarantee that it'll be significantly better at say, UCLA for instance. All I know is that I sincerely detest going to school everyday and I don't possibly comprehend how I'll be able to finish an actual semester like this.
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