Week 5

While thinking about a topic for this blog, it just hit me. I think that the counselors at ICC are no help to students and are too demanding. In just my two semesters at ICC, my counselors have enrolled me in classes I did not need to take, have not responded to multiple email messages sent, and given me no information about scholarship money to help pay for tuition, even after asking for information. While I can understand that they may have busy schedules at times, I find no reason to refuse a student of help just because they did not schedule a meeting.
In my friend Nate's case, they have cost him almost a semester's worth of classes because they did not put him in the right classes for his major. You may ask, did he tell the counselor about what his major is before making his schedule? The answer is yes, and because of this, he is going to be stuck living at home another half-year, at least, because of his counselors wrongdoing. In my own experiences, I have also been placed in two classes last semester that had no completion towards my degree, also after they knew of my planned major. I've had many of my friends get no responses on calls and emails about important college questions, as well. In just the cases of myself and friends, we have had multiple problems with just trying to get in contact with our counselors about the many questions and issues we may have with college searching, completing our degree, etc. I think to make ICC a more comfortable and easy experience, the counselors need to actually be a counselor to the students at all times rather than just when you have an appointment.