Community is a sitcom on NBC that follows a diverse group of students at a community college. Each week they get into various sitcom situations that take place at the school. From my experiences at a community college the show is actually quite accurate (if you leave out the sitcom tropes).
The atmosphere at the fictional school in Community is very relaxed. There are events being held there all of the time and the school has students who range from straight out of high school to adults who are going back to school after getting sidetracked for a few years. My personal experiences were similar, but not exact. The atmosphere at my former school was the same and the ages were as well. There were not as many events, but there were enough to make the two schools similar.
One of the main points of Community is that the main characters have a study group. While, I was not really part of one (there was a sort of informal study group that met before one of my classes) I know there were several groups at my school similar to the one in the show.
So while Community is not entirely representative of a real community college, it is too similar to my experiences to not applaud the show's creators for their accuracy when developing the show for TV.
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