City College of San Francisco Castro/Valencia Campus

Would be 5 stars except for the shitty attitude of the well-​marbled registration lady who refused to help me check the status of an important message I left for my instructor. It is 2009 and homey does not use email nor does he have a direct line on which I may contact him. According to all relevant sources (i.e the City College website) the only way of getting said professor information before the commencement of class was to call the Castro/​Valencia main number and leave a message. I did just that and simply wanted to confirm the message was received and delivered. I’m sorry I made more work for you. I’m sorry that my request managed to ruffle your feathers to such an extent that you had to do the whole ghetto eye roll, huffing and puffing bit. It must be tough in your world.
Despite my previous paragraph of bitching, I do love this campus. The site supervisors are nice and HELPFUL. Castro/​Valencia consistently has the classes I want to take, and best of all it is a 5 minutes walk from my house. Score.

In an effort to get an earlier registration date due to the impacted prerequisites for the nursing program, I took Spanish 1A at the James Lick Middle School Campus. What fun! Though there are few parts of middle school I wish to recall, I somehow enjoyed sitting in those small chairs with a backdrop of science reports on earthquakes and volcanoes. Finding the occasional poorly written note that failed to get passed all the way across the classroom or simply got left behind, about secret crushes or how Alex is a wet fart makes class a little more lively. Bonus for me, the class was roughly half queer. Biggest problem was the boy’s bathroom was about as disgusting as a dive bar’s men’s room, with flooded floors and no toilet paper in sight.
Professora Cinthia Chacon was an amazing teacher by the way, i highly recommend her!

I am bored. My job is unsatisfying… I need to stimulate my brain and increase my learning somehow. Since college, I become enthralled with world history, so I figured I should learn a thing or two about my own country (besides the very seldom bits I remember from 9^th grade civics). Needless to say I signed up for a $ 60 class and have been getting my learning on ever since. My teacher is great. He has another job outside of teaching at CCSF, but he is passionate about history and thus shows up every Tuesday to teach his eager students. The location is convenient, the mix of people surpasses most community colleges, and the entire experience is rewarding. They have so many classes to choose from, I am sure I will be back for more.

How ironic? CCSF decided to name their Noe campus Castro/​Valencia. Perhaps they’re trying to hide the place and keep non-​Noe types out? Noe is so clicky like that, everyone has a stroller, a dog or one of those baby pouch/​sling things. Well haha you stroller-​pushers I found it and I’m not leaving. I’ve been taking classes here for the past three years of my SF life. This may be my longest SF relationship if you don’t count my on/​off affair with Craigslist. That’s an affair with CL not people found on CL. I like my men in my bed and not on my screen, thank you very much.
Why does the Noe campus rock big time?
1. They mainly offer languages courses so if you’re a language nerd like me you can certainly get your foreign on while eyeing cuties who are either linguaphiles, globe trotters or plain simple culture snobs.
2. There’s a PTA run snack bar that helps raises money for junoir high SFers who are going abroad.
3. Professor Morel works there and she is one of the best teachers I have ever had, trust me I know the education sh*t.
4. The classes are über cheap. That’s right, twenty bucks per unit.
5. You can register online and never visit the Phelan office if you’re a continuing education student.
6. Free parking-​get there early for the first few weeks before the mass exodus of the drop-​outs.
So there goes my 100^th Unilocal which was defintely something dear to my heart.