THE BRENT FORUM D.B.

D Barney

“The open campus has let me explore, and for a lot of classes I’ve got to go out and just walk around and find stuff, which has been a really fun and great way for me to learn. I was in Italian Arts and Culture during my junior year and I thought it was really fun to walk around and look at all the different influences of Italian architecture in the buildings of Ann Arbor, mainly because I never really noticed those little details before. It really made me appreciate the same buildings that I see every day, like the big white house with pillars just across the street and so much more. I’m planning on going to college next year to study astrophysics. I really want to learn more about outer space, and I have always wanted to learn as much as I can about space. I feel like studying astrophysics is the best way to get there. I was a part of Space Club during my time at Community, which really fostered my interest in the subject. We get together every Friday and basically just talk about whatever we want to talk about relating to space, including discussions around space news. I’ll miss the people, the teachers, just the whole community, which I love, but I’m looking forward to getting my degrees and getting to work doing what I enjoy.”

T.TEDDY JACOBSON

“My time at Community has gone pretty well. I met a bunch of people and got to take one or two interesting classes. I got to take some of George’s classes, which, as we know, George is awesome. Probably my favorite class ended up being Advanced Topics with George because it’s basically an opportunity to just do anything you want to with computer science. [Computer science] is a very logical thing. A lot of things have a very open-endedness to them, like grammar, or other things like it. I always end up thinking, well, this is not correct to me. If I’ve ever been in a teacher’s class, they can know I’m always going to say, well, this question doesn’t actually make any sense because of this, that and whatever. But computer science is very straightforward: this is what you do, this is how it is. And even with that there is some flexibility around it, but it’s like logic, like math, but without all the complicated stuff. It’s just straight logic. I’m going off to Kalamazoo to continue studying computer science stuff. With the current state of computer science, and with everything that’s going on in the field, I have no idea what’s going to happen, but I’m pretty sure that whatever I end up doing in the field, I’ll be decently happy with it. I’ll miss being in close proximity to all the friends that I’ve met here, and being right next to Sweetwaters, which has taken basically all the money I’ve ever owned.”