While universities require applicants to be somewhat professional before admitting them, community colleges allow their students to enter the college experience as beginners, inexperienced, and give them the opportunity to achieve professionalism. Addison herself writes “you will grow with your first English lesson a little more with your first psychology lesson, a lot more with your first biology, physics, chemistry lesson” (257). Addison's point is that community colleges are built to help students start where they finished high school without having to get used to a completely new environment. How can we expect a teenager to focus on his studies when many changes are happening in his life? Is it possible for them to be successful with all these changes going on in their life? In Addison's view, this is why community colleges are still important, because they can help those students who need to learn to live as adults without having their academic success affected. I wholeheartedly support Addison's argument: community colleges contain an environment that allows their students, especially high school students, to acclimate to adult life in a timely manner without affecting their grades. But, at some point all those high school students are growing up to become adults, where they alone will have to manage and balance everything, it's not really