Blue Ridge Community and Technical College — Local services in Martinsburg

So. First semester completed. I thought this would be a great school since it is close by boy was u wrong. So when first trying to get started with classes the process was great to get started now when my work pays for my tuition it took them longer than it should have been with no one there for me to talk to and no call. During the courses that I was doing by the way I work 40+ hours a week full time work. The classes where to much for anyone for much information not enough time to do the work in a week. Then when you do try to get ahold of your professors it takes them 48 hours if not longer. But if you work like my shift Sunday- Wednesday then try to do your work on your days off it takes the whole 3 days to do it. So no down time for yourself. The course are not laid out the same way for for every class. Very bad way to run a community college. I will be transferring to a new college one that is more prepared than this work for working people.

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I took the real estate course with them and it was a joke. They had multiple teachers that taught and the only one that cared and taught the whole class was the lady in charge. The others would just give answers to the work without teaching it and would end classes early so they could go watch football. People paid to get taught the information but they just focused on giving you the answers to their handouts. Also there was too much time wasted on students and teachers shooting the breeze when they could have been teaching. All of the ladies were realtors but that doesn’t make them good teachers. In the end they turned me off to even want to pursue...

Im a older person that thought I was too old to go back to school, but the experience at Blue Ridge has really been a good challenge for me. I got my self confidence & self esteem built up & also I have been able to get out of shyness to a certain degree by having the classes I have & am taking. My advisor is great & so have been my professors. I graduate this fall & happy to be a part of Blue Ridge. There is other departments that is very understanding with me for problems & questions. It takes effort on ones' part to learn & attendance is very important. Setting goals is up to oneself & working...