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| - - Challenging courses and some great teachers
- Science department ROCKED!
- Awesome homey and pretty campus
- Online classes made life easier
- Affordable tuition
- Small classroom experience
- Graduation experience okay
I really wish I could give Parkland a 4.5. This place was awesome. I received my Associates in Science with a major in Biology.
I started with a major in Film.
I changed my major a bunch of times and was always able to receive great help from the counselors for this and many other things.
I had a lot of great classes here at Parkland and some really, really challenging ones as well. Don't listen to those ignorant individuals who say that community college is somehow lesser than unversities. I had really hard courses and there were a ton of UIUC students who took classes at Parkland because it was cheaper and you got taught by a real teacher and not a noob TA.
Like tessa said, there are some bad apple teachers that you will get with any school. Unfortunately due to tenure or just uncaring of admin, serious issues with teachers seem to go unchanged.
The online classes were awesome. I was able to still be enrolled in school, while being able to access information and work on homework/projects and take exams at my convenience. This allowed me to be employed full time during school to make money.
The science department was no short of amazing. Labs were well equipped with well enough materials for everyone and we were afforded many great learning opportunities (ie: dissecting a cow's eye, messing around with a real sheep heart, separating our own DNA from saliva).
And the cadavers! Oh man. Apparently Parkland has more cadavers than most community colleges in the nation, so that's pretty sweet. There were always enough out on display to study with and if you wanted to see them during off times, usually a teacher in the lab could take you there and let you mess around with them. They did smell horribly of Phenol and you couldn't eat anything for awhile after studying on them because the smell permeated your sinus cavity for a couple hours. I remember distinctly eating a muffin after studying and being able to still smell the Phenol while eating. I threw my cadaver muffin away and thought I was going to be sick. haha
Almost all of the science department teachers were amazing, especially Mrs. Burkhalter. She is one of my favorite teachers of all time. She was very enthusiastic, funny, organized and informative. It got to the point where students were asking HER their personal medical questions instead of their doctors. When she was emailed random biology/science questions, she would post said questions and the answers on a running powerpoint before class started just for additonal info for the class. And if she didn't know the answer to something, she would look it up!
I hear this place also has a fantastic nursing program and dental program.
I chose this place over UIUC on purpose. I love the campus and the small classroom atmosphere. The cafeteria was alright, but I've heard that that has been significantly changed for the better since then. The art shows were always pretty cool and the planetarium light shows were interesting.
Graduation was fun and they did make it feel special at Krannert. Though I was a little annoyed that we couldn't go somewhere bigger so that I could invite ALL of my family and friends and not be limited to only bringing 4 people. :o/
The tuition rates are much preferable to UIUC's and I saved a lot of money going here rather than to UIUC or some other university. I would say many people should get their Associates at Parkland and then transfer onto a university for their bachelors.
Although I had a friend who was told many of her classes would transfer over to UIUC and be okay for her program when it turns out they were not and she ended up having to take a crapload more courses to make up for this. So just be warned and informed.
All in all, I highly recommend this school. It was very good to me. :o)
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