My first two years of college were at a community college--36 years ago, beginning in Fall 1973. It was an inexpensive way to get started in college while still trying to determine my course of study. After getting my A.A. degree, I transferred to our state university and got my B.A. there, with honors.

I enjoyed both experiences, and I cannot say the university was academically better than the community college...I had several superb instructors at the community college, teachers who would have done any esteemed university proud. The smaller class sizes were also beneficial in the opportunity they afforded for robust discussions of the subject matter.

That said, I'm certainly happy and prepared to enjoy a sharp comedy about community college, and I don't take offense at the concept of the show; after all, there is no institution that cannot or should not be lampooned...there is no part of the human situation that is not comedy gold!

As for Chevy Chase, well, he has unfortunately erased from most memories his good work through his many years of slack, cynical hack work. But Chase was good at one time, and from this review, it seems he may have found the right vehicle to let himself be good again.

"Actually, the smart thing to do is to borrow the entire tuition cost of the most expensive college you can afford - and maybe throw in some unecessary cosmetic surgeries and expensive electronics to boot - and then declare bankruptcy right after graduation.

You'll spend the next seven years rebuilding your credit, but you'll still be in better shape - debt free and with a clean credit slate (assuming you keep your nose clean) - than most of your peers by the time you're thirty.

Don't fear the FICA"

Actually, aside from the fact that you're encouraging fraud and theft, filing bankruptcy will not remove your liability for federal student loans...they are not forgiven in bankruptcy.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, as I didn't read through all 7 pages of comments, but I recall seeing Truman Capote on the Tonight Show back in the 70s. He stated that "most people" process X amount of sensory data per second or minute or something. (I think he cited some study that had found this, but he may have been pulling it from his ...imagination.) He followed up this assertion by stating that he processed XXXXX amount of sensory data per second or minute--much more than the average he cited, and that this was a very difficult thing to live with.

I always remembered that and it always struck me as entirely plausible.

I have read that as children, we notice everything around us, because all is new and therefore mysterious and vivid. I can remember staring at certain of my Crayolas in first grade, hypnotized by their hue, or being entranced by the blazing light and color conveyed through transparent colored plastic squirt guns. However, practically speaking, we cannot always be noticing everything around us if we hope to navigate through the world as we mature. Thus, once we learn what things are--a chair, a wheel, a ball, etc.--we relegate them to broad categories and notice them only to the extent we must in order to function efficiently. Although there are many types of chairs in the world, most of us, when entering buildings, just lightly perceive the chairs and other furniture we find there, without deeply examining each piece for its novelty or difference from all the other chairs we have exerienced in life. There's simply no practical reason to do so in most cases, and the time involved would hinder our functioning in other areas.

However, many people never lose this habit of close perception, and such people become artists and scientists, people who engage deeply with the physical world around them in order to discover its mysteries or to imagine new ones.

As others here have pointed out, the person writing to Cary here is, or should be, a writer.