Anxiety, frustration, confusion and stress are some of the feelings in the air at Cerritos College. There are too many factors affecting the daily lives of students.

Cancelled classes, counselors not available, financial aid and being dropped from classes without a warning are just a few this semester.

The main factors that most students are dealing with are financial aid and being dropped from classes.

There are too many students dropped with out a proper explanation or a chance to do something.

There are just too many students enrolled that are wait listed or have to look elsewhere for classes, to not drop students.

“For the first time in more than 20 years, I see fliers basically turning students away, or suggesting they go to other colleges, classes here are full,” said Craig Breit, radio adviser.

He had a student, John McCane, dropped from his radio production class the first week of school, even though he already had a sit in the class and was good to go.

McCane is one of the many in this situation, and he is asking “Why? I payed on time!”

Many students are finding out the hard way that Cerritos is serious about paying up in five days, and that means paying up fee increases.

Many students that paid before the $6 increase were automatically in debt with the school.

They were dropped for $6, $12, $30, depending on number of units, that were owed to Cerritos.

Cerritos’ policy has always been, pay within days of registering or face consequences, being dropped from classes.

Also, for future reference and if ever in doubt of anything regarding your student status or account, Cerritos’ student online portal, MyCerritos was set up to aid students with a click of the mouse.

MyCerritos will give you details such as fees and holds, which students could’ve checked over summer and could’ve kept themselves from being dropped.

Since the budget cut became in affect, it was a state-wide solicitation that all colleges get money from students within days of registering, and that is why Cerritos has been faced with many negative comments.

Cerritos is not the only college, all campuses and students throughout California are on the same boat, it is an order from our Congress.

There are other situations that might have triggered the drop.

A health fee situation is also an explanation received by some students. Health fee went up $2 from $14-$16 since Spring 2009.

Financial aid is also a stress factor.

It is taking more time to get money due to the high number of enrolled students since spring.

According to a statement by Cerritos College Administration, Cerritos is currently experiencing a high volume of enrollment traffic.

Keep in mind this includes returning students, re-admitted students, newly graduated freshman, disemployed persons that want a career, and the UC/Cal State students that were affected by the budget, and unit enrollment fee increase.

Community colleges aren’t the only affected ones.