Jennifer McCormick

Student

“Where does all that government money go? I’d say they certainly have some problems with financial management.”

Jennifer McCormick is an accounting major at CSU Northridge who is experiencing, first hand, the results of governmental struggles over funding. “They’ve had to cut so many classes here, there just isn’t much available,” she says. “It makes me very angry. I mean, here I am: I want to move ahead in life and I can’t move any faster. We are becoming very limited and the frustrations are just building up. It’s getting to the point,” she continues, “where I may just have to find another school.”

This was not the scenario Jennifer expected when she left SMC. “I loved it there,” she says. “It really set the basis for me and it’s where I learned all my study skills. And the students are so serious at SMC,” she continues, “that they really help make it an ideal transition place to a four-year school.” Jennifer says that she also is beginning to enjoy business law, “and I may get into some kind of financial investigation at some point.” But for now, she’s staying with accounting where, she says, some of her best experience came to her from SMC. “My best teacher there was Eleanor Simon,” says Jennifer. “She was just terrific and her classes were terrific fun.”

Jennifer adds, “I really appreciate the teachers so much at SMC. And because of my experience, I’ve been encouraging a lot of people to do the junior college thing. I met so many quality people here who were anxious to learn and were serious about their commitments,” she continues. “And the whole time I spent at SMC was a really good time in my life in general.”

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