While universities require their applicants to be in some way 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 a little more with your first English lesson with your first psychology lesson, and a lot more with your first biology lesson, with your physics lesson, with your first chemistry lesson" (257). Addison's point is that community colleges are built in a way that helps their students start where they finished high school without having to get used to a whole new environment. How can we expect a teenager to focus on his studies when there are many changes happening in his life? Is it even possible for them to succeed with all these changes happening in their lives? From Addison's perspective, this is why community colleges are still important, because they can help students who need to learn how to live as adults without their academic success being affected. I wholeheartedly agree with 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 these high school students grow up to be adults, where they will have to manage and balance everything on their own, it's not really