[GRLUG] Is ITT Tech a Good School?

[Steve Romanow]

On 2/22/2011 10:52 AM, Ben Rousch wrote:
> 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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