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When Sean McCotter began his first semester at Santa Barbara City College in 2013, he rode his bike every day. Having just moved from Spokane, Washington — where snow piles high in the winter and rain is constant — he cherished every sunny day he got. “It was such a cool novelty for me,” he recalls, “to be able to continue riding my bike comfortably in December and January, where in Eastern Washington, it’s snow.”
He never expected to move to Santa Barbara — much less attend SBCC — but once he arrived, it felt like the right place all along. Before the move, McCotter was studying at a community college in Washington when his parents decided to relocate to Santa Barbara for work. During a visit, he toured SBCC and was immediately taken by the campus. He’d seen plenty of community colleges before, he notes, but had “never seen one with a campus as nice as that.”