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existential1 wrote

I went to junior college during high school, and for 2 years after I graduated (with a 6 month break directly after high school). Community/junior colleges are excellent institutions. Much more affordable, typically higher quality of education because of class sizes (just less marketing/branding). Only issue is that they typically don't bring in that level of community you expect from larger institutions if that's what you want.

I highly recommend doing general education and exploratory courses at a JC/CC while it is cheap. If I did it over, I would have done a lot more experimentation there before deciding on a major and pidgeonholing the next 10 years of my life.

The hardest part is probably just shutting out all the outside noise about how fast you should be going and societal expectations and all that.

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