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I took some programming courses there, which helped me get my first programming job. My BA from UNCG sure wasn't helping, so thanks to GTCC for everything, and thanks to UNCG for nothing.

I attended nursing school at GTCC, graduating 14 years ago. The education I received there has served me well. In turn, I have used it to serve our community in a variety of health care settings. Thank you GTCC!

Attending GTCC made me more untrusting of people in authority positions than I was. I was told when I registered that when I graduated I would be able to run a medical office. During my 2 long years there I worked hard but kept running into problems with everyone from Don Cameron on down. The instructors weren't teaching what their syllabi said they would be teaching but Cameron backed the instructors not the students. I was in classes that had nothing to do with the classes I was supposed to have. They put me in a regular office class instead of a medical office class and had someone teaching it (Shelia Mays), who didn't know and didn't care to know, anything about a medical office (or even a regular office for that matter!). Mays had been out of the work world too long at that point in time, I'd hate to see what she's trying to teach now! Medical billing and coding classes were a joke. I tried to get my Medical Transcription certificate at the same time and they wouldn't let me for some stupid reason. I had instructors who GAVE us the answers to tests before the tests! I didn't learn a whole lot about a medical office. I did learn you had to be "popular" and a butt kisser, but I was neither.

I graduated a few tenths of a point from honors in 2002. I have yet to be able to use that degree. I could never get a job in a medical office because I didn't have any experience. Shelia Mays couldn't have cared less if it was an accredited course or not. She was getting accolades for getting students in her curriculum and that's all that mattered to her.

I ended up going to Davidson County Community College a year after graduating from GTCC. I graduated from there with honors from the Pharmacy Technician program. Even though that was not an accredited program, it was taugh by a Registered Pharmacist who knows what she's talking about. I have been able to use that degree and get my certification. If you want a good program for Health Information Technology, go to Davidson, it is an accredited program and is taugh by people who know what they're talking about.

If you have not yet registered at GTCC...DON'T. Stay away from that place. They don't do much for you...at least in the Office Systems program.