Student Life
OCC has active clubs, competitive sport teams, and an involved Associated Student Body. However, the campus community is less social than a four-year institution because it is primarily a commuter college serving local people.
On-campus housing is not available, and local housing is expensive, approximately $1100 per month for a small single-bedroom apartment. Local rooms in houses rent for about $750 per month. The minimum wage of $8.00 per hour is about half of the income required to live in Costa Mesa.
Many changes have been going on at Orange Coast College. A new library was opened in January 2008, the Lewis science building was remodeled, and a Starbucks was built by the new art center. It is the only community college in Orange County that has its own Starbucks. The student resource center, Watson Hall, contains:
- Counseling center
- Multicultural Center
- Records and Admissions
- Transfer Center
- Career Center
- International Center
Read more about this topic: Orange Coast College
Famous quotes containing the words student and/or life:
“The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The arbitrary division of one’s life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.”
—Alice Caldwell Rice (1870–1942)