College Advisors

This week I will be talking about my experiences with College Advisors here at ICC. I know a fellow classmate talked about this in the last blog but this is a big issue. Let me explain why something needs to be done. At the beginning of this semester my advisor had put me in a math class that I had not even tested into nor did I have the prerequisite to. Now does this seem right? NO its not because I was in that class for a couple of weeks and I had no idea what was going on. I would have never passed it because I do not have the experiences that I need to do so. Not only did he put me into that class he told me that I would do fine in the class. I felt that I was very misadvised and luckily there are some good advisors out there that helped me get through this problem, which was really nice. This has nothing to do about ICC but when I called to set up an appt. with my ISU advisor he was not very passionate about his job at all. I had many questions for him and he hardly had anything to say. Now, I just feel that advisors need to take there job a little bit more seriously considering we are paying thousands of dollars on the classes they put us into. I also believe that if we are paying this much money they should be more than happy to help us instead of acting like it’s a big pain in the butt that we need help.