Blog #3

In "Two Years Are Better Than Four," by Liz Addison, Addison is giving her opinion on how she feels that community college is still something very valuable to our society.  She wrote this article as a response to Rick Perlstein, who believes that the college experience doesn't matter anymore. She used her experience in community college as evidence that community college is still important. Addison argues that college is where students discover themselves and who they want to be and what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Addison mentions that Perlstein attended a university for privileged students and he doesn't really know the life that the common community college students go through. Addison ends the article stating that community college is a gem to our society.

In the article “Two Years Are Better Than Four,” by Liz Addison, she claims that the college experience is still alive and well. Addison states, “It is here that Mr. Perlstein will find his college years of self-discovery, and it is here he will find that college does still matter.” (212) Basically, Addison is saying that community college is where people discovery who they want to be. I agree with Addison that the college experience is still relevant. For a majority of the students, community college is where they have to get serious and decide what it is that they truly want to do for the rest of their lives.