MESA Community + Benefits
The MESA Student Study Center is located in Aliso Lab Room 114. To use the Student Study Center, a MESA application must be on file. Upon submission of an application, students will be given a validation sticker for placement on their COC student ID card.
When visiting the Student Study Center, all students must check in at the reception desk and present a COC student ID card that has a MESA validation sticker.
MESA has many special services for MESA eligible students attending COC.
These services include:
- A designated student study center equipped with computers and software such as MatLab, MiniTab, and AutoCad
- Tutorial support from both faculty and peer tutors
- Academic excellence workshops in which MESA facilitators, in consultation with faculty, lead weekly skill-building workshops in math and chemistry
- Organized study group sessions
- Professional development workshops, guest speakers and other activities such as financial aid workshops, UC application workshops, lunch with alumni, etc.
- Overnight STEM book check out (textbooks for Math, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Engineering)
- Calculator and laptop loan programs
- Locker program
- Onsite counseling, academic advisement
- Priority registration
- And much more...leadership, scholarship and research opportunities!