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Tech Training Schools Going Bust
superflippy writes "The Associated Press reports that many tech training schools which opened during the last few years are now shutting their doors. During the dot-com boom, there was the perception that a few months of computer training could lead to a fabulous job. Now, it seems all these schools have produced are unemployed people with student loans and dubious certifications."
Mostly I am just so glad to read so many comments that stick true to my heart. I go to a small community college, Mott College, in Flint, Michigan. This is the worst program that I can imagine for a networking degree. Course work includes an 8 week "Intro to Unix" that is mostly the ED editor. The accounting department requires the only Linux class, so half the class dosn't understand point and click in Windows, much less anything about Linux. This is real bad for thoes of us in the Networking progam that want to try to learn somthing. All my higher level classes are Windows based, and basically you follow along with a text book step by step to make things work. Some of the assignments are pretty lame, for example, do a trace route and write your results on the paper. While I am typing c:\tracert www.google.com > tracert.txt and cuting and pasting the results into the assignmet sheet (a Word doc that I was reading in Open Office) I see other students furiousally writing the results on a piece of paper.
I am currently in a Windows 2000 server class. The assignment now is to set up and configure a DHCP server. This is done in a lab. None of the students could get theirs to work properly. The teacher was like, "well its configured properly, I don't know why it dosn't work". When I did mine, and it didnt work, I looked at how the network was set up. The server and the client were connected to a hub that was connected to a switch that held the schools LAN. Of course it didn't work, there was already a working DHCP server on the LAN. Once I disconnected the hub from the switch my DHCP server fired right up. I added a USB/10-100 NIC to my server and connected that to the schools LAN. My server has Internet connectivity, but my client can not ping the 2nd NIC in the server. I've been trying for days to make this work, I guess I just don't know how to properly phrase my Google search. My NT 4 MCSE teacher is convinced that the schools firewall is the reason my client can not ping the 2nd NIC on my server. If anyone can help me I'd greatly appriciate it.
Jander@chartermi.net
Anyways, going through all this, one of the other students was doing somthing and I told him he had to change the seting in the BIOS. His response, "Whats a BIOS" I am thinking to myself, you are in an avanced networking class and you don't know what a BIOS is?
I have learned a lot in my classes, but not because of my classes. It is because I love what I am doing and I am willing to read and learn.
Sad, because I have spent 3 years and a lot of money earning this worthless Associates Degree.
Thank you for letting me vent.