Houston Community College

Compared to regular colleges, community colleges are not meant to be ranked with 5 stars. Compared to the other community college in the stafford branch, this Alief one is not as accomadating. Parking can be difficult.

Not dealing with this campus ever again. I went to ask about my financial aid and received the most unnecessary attitude from the angriest ghetto queen I’m come across in years. First off the sign-​in thing was a waste of time. They gave me the whole nonsense about signing in and I was the FIRST person called. You know what that means? They were too busy eating and talking to do their job. The girl with the blue eyes was more helpful than the big bright girl but even still I can’t take a black girl with blue contacts seriously about ANYTHING. Blue eyes??? Really??? Now like I said, at the time I was the ONLY person waiting to talk to financial aid. There was ONE other dude and he came after me. What the hell was I waiting for??? When they finally called me I figured I would just go in and ask a couple questions and be done. No big deal right? The way the big girl was acting you would think I slept with her and left her stranded somewhere. You would think people over your financial anything would be professional, but, naw… Apparently I did the most evil deed by not asking about the summer semester and the fall in one sentence. After being told my financial aid was ok for the fall semester I figured I’d see about the summer too because even though I’m already enrolled in a class or two being able to use my aid would be a major help in my life. The big girl gave me the whole long speech about how we discussed the fall and I didn’t ask about the summer and whatever other nonsense she shot out there. I can only assume that she realized she was being an idiot by her deciding to partially do her job. She told me something or another about not being able to use my financial aid for the summer for whatever reason (probably something she made up). Then she says something about how going from one school to another is a bad thing. She refused to explain it to me though and only said «I shouldn’t have mentioned it because now you’re asking too many questions». I really wish someone would explain to me how giving a damn about my professional and by extension my personal life is a negative move on my part and how that would possibly infuriate someone who chose a job in which answering the questions of thousands is a major aspect of the position. I attempted to explain that I am working on two degrees from two different schools and that knowing how going from one school to the other would affect my financial aid is important but that obviously was the straw that broke the big girl’s back. After hearing another complaint about me asking too many questions (for the record too many was three) I just explained that I didn’t require anything else and that I basically was sorry for expecting a professional to be professional. Like I said, I’ll never use this campus again. I’d rather just take the time to travel to the ANY other campus. Who hires these people?

Counselors’ office are awful being on time. Their office is suppose to open at 9AM. I’ve seen them open way after 9AM. The lack of respect for students’ time is very minimal to them. Make sure you have your degree plan and stick to it because they tend to add extra classes that you didn’t need in the first place.
Mid-​Semester Orientations are so disorganized and the school is disorganized in general. I don’t understand why give new students a piece of paper which gives them a room number. When that room has nothing going on inside and is dark. It wastes their time to find the «REAL» room in which we have their orientation. I see these new students walking back and forth. From the front desk and asking where is the room to other students.
This building used to belong to Chevron, the gas company. Which was sold to HCC.
This school may has many levels. However, they do not utilize all the levels which reach to 4^th. They only have 2 floors. The engineering UT Tyler classes are on Floor 2 and normal classes are on Floor 1. However, they mix the classes. So both schools’ students are up there. There are sciences and math classes upstairs. They just recently put in a new library up there as well. There are several rooms that are separate from HCC. Although, a few kids were sitting/​working in the student lounge that were kicked out of the room on the grounds of it being only UT Tyler students use. (There were no signs that says so.) A lot of disorganization here.
There’s a high school next to them; Alief Early College High School. The students commute back and forth. So do not be surprised to see high schoolers mingling among the other college kids. Also, in that high school there are signs on the doors saying that they are not a college. People still go in there on accident. The smaller building is not a college. The bigger one is.
On rare occasions, they would have limited free things to give to students. T-​shirts, notebooks, food, and drinks.
Security here is sour experience for me. I wish they were helpful. Instead, they come off as someone who is power hungry.
The classes have a maximum of 35 – 40 students in one class. It is fairly small which gives the professors the ability to memorize names. My advice to everyone that may or may not go here… is to be extremely picky with the professors you pick. There are some fantastic, horrible, and decent professors. Best of luck, everyone.

I hear all the horror stories but I’m currently in my second semester here and have had a pleasant experience. Dr. Sandifer (spelling error?) was my instructor for my only on campus class (I take everything else online) and he was great. It was for a prep course and I’m glad to have taken his class. He really pushes you to do your best and I believe that it did prepare me for future classes (even made everything seem easy in comparison, but in a good way! Lol)

I waited forever at the financial aid office and actually signed in before these two people. Yet those people got to talk to them first and my name wasn’t even called. After they were done the person behind the counter got tired and went away. They called the person that signed in after me again!
There’s a place outside where students can chill near the break room, very nice. I enjoyed it but I could smell a faint hint of cigarettes… I’m not sure if people smoke there too.
There’s free public wifi everywhere you go on campus. Great for me and my laptop. I could use my laptop right outside :)

The campus has several colored walls and small hallways, but you really do get the small setting of study groups and the small body interaction amongst students on this campus. The location has expanded, come check it out!