Welcome to my web site on Pima Community College

Introduction

My name is Brandon Green and I have been attending Pima for a little over one and a half years now. I graduated from PPEP Tech High School which is a charter  school. I tried attending Sabino High School, which is a public school, as a freshman, but I found too many distractions between all the sports and other fun things to do like ditching to be very interested in any sort of schooling. After flushing that year down the drain I decided to try attending a charter school. I really like how some of the charter schools run. It is a lot like college. You go in, and do your work. If you have a question you go find the teacher that can help you. It is nothing like an ordinary public school class where you go in and listen to a teacher drone on about the lesson. Then there is the fact that the teachers are free to help you most any time at charter schools. In a public school the whole class may have the same question, but often the teacher only helps one or two students on that particular problem and then moves on. It is like they expect the rest of the students to get in contact with the one or two students they did help, and figure it out. I also like the fact that most charter schools do not have sports programs allowing the school to use more funds on educational purposes. Is that not what school is supposed to be about anyway? I did good at the PPEP Tech High School I attended, and now I am a college student at Pima.

Attending Pima Community College

I began attending Pima's East Campus in the fall of 2001. I like how the East Campus is layed out and many of the programs they offer. The East Campus has a lot of nice landscaping that helps lend a touch of nature to all the concrete walkways and the buildings. The campus itself is not hard to negotiate, but some things are a little difficult to find. Parking is not bad unless you consider three hundred feet or so too strenuous a distance to walk. East Campus is also home to a great tutoring center where you can go and get tutoring on difficult subjects. Unfortunately the tutoring center does not cover all the classes, but if math is troublesome for you then you are in luck. The Clements Center, a little ways from the main campus, is a great sports oriented facility. So if laborous physical activity and endorphins are your thing you may want to check it out.
    A fairly new edition to Pima is the football program held on the East Campus headed by Jeff Scurran and Doug Holland both formerly from Sabino High School. I remember Doug busting me for cigarettes my freshman year at Sabino. The football program is a matter of some controversy though. The new program had to recieve funds from somewhere to get started and Pima's school budget took up the cost. I wonder if that is why the tuition was raised? Many people, particularly the older more money concious individuals, do not approve of the new football program. Mostly for two reasons. One, the program does not bring in an income for the school system like some univesities programs. Two, there have been a lot of complaints about the football team trashing the parking lots from their parties. This was not a large problem until the football program arrived.
    Jeff Scurran is also an individual of some controversy. He did an excellent job leading some of Sabino's football teams to State Championships and very close to it many times. Like a good football coach he kept an eye out for talent both on the field and in the weight training room. Although it seems to me most of his concern lay in the talent he saw that might make a good football player. That is the difference between playing Pop Warner football and high school football. The competition begins. I had a different coach than Scurran as a freshman, but Scurran did teach weight training which was mandatory for students like me involved in the football program. I played Pop Warner before playing football for Sabino and I was a lot bigger than most of the kids then. When I got to Sabino most of the kids were as big or bigger than me. I weighed 165 lbs. before I started weight training at Sabino. By the end of the year I weighed 195 lbs. and was bigger than many of the other students. However, there were people considerably bigger and stronger than I was even at the end of the year. I also know for a fact I do best at defense, but I think the coach may have had other ideas at the time. The coach decides where he thinks you will do best. In general I did not want it bad enough. It probably did not help my situation any to have failed the majority of my classes either. They simply did not seem as fun as playing football, building muscles, or ditching and hanging out with friends.
    In general I am rather fond of Pima's East Campus, and have a good time going there. I met a lot of interesting people both students and teachers, and I have learned some valuable things from those encounters. I have about one year left at Pima to get my degree, and then I will be moving up the University of Arizona.

Some of My Artwork from Pima

    The portrait below is an example of some of my best work. I will sell hand drawn portraits of people alone or in groups. If you would like a portrait please click on this link for more information. I also have other examples of my work featured on this link.