Saddleback College
Colleges & Universities
28000 Marguerite Pkwy
Mission Viejo, CA 92692
One of the most common things I overheard in suburban community colleges are rash plans for the future. “I’m planning on transferring to Berkeley after I make a 3.5 GPA and finish classes in …!” Four years later you find them at Saddleback. And Berkeley changed to CSU Fullerton. And 3.5 changed to barely a 2.7.
If you don’t move out of Orange County two years after high school, you will stay in Orange County for good. You become the manager of In-N-Out and all your best friends have children. Saddleback will stick to you like jelly to bread.
Saddleback is a decent place to go if you like jelly. Highlights of my time here include:
- Me running over two traffic cones and dragging them underneath my car on campus, not realizing they were underneath my car until somebody pointed.
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Me skipping three lectures per night class (on average) every semester to go see shows and managing to pass all classes with a flying 2.7 GPA.
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Me writing, editing and photographing for the school newspaper.
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Me driving too fast on campus and a cop bluffing to give me a ticket even though he had no proof I was speeding. Way to flaunt authority campus police.
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Me being the proud alumni of Mr. Lamb’s first photography class he’s ever taught. We had our final at his art studio in Laguna Beach. (I WAS a community college surrealist.)
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Me walking from the Mission Viejo Mall parking lot the first two weeks of class each Semester before enough people dropped out to find parking on campus.
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Me knowing a few people besides myself who transferred out of Saddleback. I still wonder about the rest of you.
My advice: Take the eight-week GE classes Saddleback offers and DON’T drop classes. That’s if you actually plan to one day leave Saddleback. Majority won’t.
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3/18/2008