With graduation just weeks away for some Bakersfield College students, a good piece of news just arrived. According to studies done by the Brookings Institution, BC was not only just named the best community college in California, but also the sixth best in the entire nation.

These studies were mostly based off of Alumni and shows that BC graduates make around $60,000 per year and tend to pay back debt easily.

Now, a good factor in these studies is that Bakersfield is a hub for many big markets such as agriculture and oil.

BC is also well known for its nursing program that brings thousands into the well-paid medical industry every year.

With that, we should all feel a sense of pride to be a student at the proclaimed best community college in California. This means we beat out any Los Angeles schools with huge budgets, any community colleges from San Francisco and all of the schools from San Diego or Sacramento.

This should help boost our school spirit and bring more people to appreciate the opportunity to put on our resume that we attended California’s best community college.

BC provides us with the resources we need such as the classrooms, the teachers, the counselors and an option for a four-year degree in some fields with more to come.

Now, as we hear this information our brains might wander to the classrooms we sit in and the number of absent and dropping classmates throughout the semester.

It’s always a mystery as to what happened to 50 percent of the students, maybe a serious sickness or family emergency. But, in other cases, it’s just sheer laziness.

Why even attend the first day if you are just going to give up when it gets hard later? That’s what college is; it’s hard. That’s why students that graduate with a simple AA earn a million dollars more in their lifetime then students that don’t complete their AA degree.

It’s self-fulfilling prophecy that is getting in the way of most students success at BC.

When you limit yourself through a narrow mindset you just hinder your abilities to be successful at life. Most students always have something to complain about when it comes to our city and our school, but, as we can now see in studies, we have the best community college in California.

Take this huge resource, even if it’s just the title that you went to the best community college in California and sixth best in the nation, and use it too your advantage.