[GRLUG] Is ITT Tech a Good School?

Tue Feb 22 10:52:49 EST 2011

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:27 AM, mooselikebriard <moosebriard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you everybody for your input.  Based on my inet research and what you
> have had to say, I think the ITT idea is shelved.  Too many doubts and gut
> feeling says no.  Perhaps one of my next moves should be coming to a
> Saturday gathering.  Sounds like that is the place to be.

There's also the West Michigan Linux Users Group (WMLUG) which meets
on the last Thursday of the month at 6PM at New Horizons Learning
Center in Cascade. It's a more formal meeting with presentations, but
discussions always happen there. The next meeting is Thursday and will
have presentations on Sabayon, preparing high-quality resumes with
XeLaTeX, Ampache music streaming server, and Proxmox KVM/OpenVZ
frontend.

For those of you wondering about the relationship between the groups,
WMLUG was started years ago during a lull in GRLUG activity. These
days WMLUG tends to have monthly, topical meetings, no mailing list,
and draws more members from the east side of the city. GRLUG tends to
have an active mailing list, less formal social meetings, and has a
larger west side attendance. There is no bad blood between the two
groups. Redundancy is good!

http://www.wmlug.org/

>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Ben DeMott <ben.demott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In the words of one of our programmers that went to ITT
>>
>> "I went to school, spent 42,000 dollars, and learned almost nothing.  Now
>> I'm out of school, and get paid to learn actual skills"
>>
>> I would absolutely recommend GRCC over ITT, and if you want to further
>> your education at FERRIS you can.
>> A school is all about it's professors.  If you there are truly independent
>> and original professors that know how to teach - and have ACTUAL real world
>> experience in their field - it doesn't matter what school you go to you will
>> learn more than you ever could from individuals that are only teaching a
>> course so their college can offer it to students.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:14 AM, mooselikebriard <moosebriard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Davenport is close for me.  I live near Kalamazoo and that campus is
>>> close to where I work which of course only matters if the particular program
>>> is taught there.  I am looking into that matter currently.  I surprise
>>> myself that I never considered Davenport previously.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dagny's right.
>>>>
>>>> (And not just because she's my fiancee; if you want the paper, 3-in-1
>>>> can be a good way to go. I don't recommend Ferris for the -in-1,
>>>> though. I tried that, and then discovered their class scheduling for
>>>> my degree program was very inflexible)
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Dagny Scott <parsleyfirefly at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > One thing I might add: GRCC's Associate's in Network Administration
>>>> > has a
>>>> > LOT of the same classes as Davenport's Info Security degree. I believe
>>>> > they
>>>> > also have a 3+1 deal where you spend 3 years at GRCC and one at
>>>> > Davenport.
>>>> > This would by far be your cheapest option, and GRCC has some very good
>>>> > instructors, many of whom currently work in the fields they're
>>>> > teaching.
>>>> >
>>>> > Dagny
>>>> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >> > 44k is quite expensive.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > For that kind of money, I personally would not consider it.   I
>>>> >> > would do
>>>> >> > GRCC or Davenport first.  A lot depends on your resources of
>>>> >> > course, but
>>>> >> > dont gamble future earnings with a buttload of student loans.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I spent five years at GRCC taking anything and everything they had
>>>> >> that was interesting. I worked as a tutor in their computer apps
>>>> >> department the whole time. They have perhaps five courses in their
>>>> >> computer apps department which would be relevant.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If you wind up in their CO232 course, you're almost guaranteed to rub
>>>> >> elbows with interesting folks; most of the people I remember running
>>>> >> into there were into Linux out of personal interest.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> However, I'd strongly recommend cert programs over even those five
>>>> >> courses.
>>>> >>
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