So as some of you may know, I decided to go back to school to get another degree. So, I look check out what everyone’s offering, and how much classes are, etc. I decide on Everest Institute. Small classes, hands on – great. I originally planned on starting in early May, but was forced to postpone as we had multiple sites that needed to be built. So now it’s July, and classes start next week, but as I’m going through everything, I notice that there’s nothing to do with back-end website development.

Now, I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I think of developing a website, the first thing that pops into my head is “How many SQL tables will it need, and what needs to go in them”. I work in *nix environments, so the whole “does it need to be ASP or PHP compatible” thing doesn’t really cross my mind. Pretty much, I’d be paying to learn a bunch of front-end bullshit that I don’t even do anyways.. Just friggin’ stupendous…

Seriously though.. $30,000 for a fucking degree, and you can’t even bother to teach the students back-end? Do they expect them to simply go get hired to do front-end bullshit? You would be jobless until you had atleast 10 outragiously styled websites under your belt (And not your own personal shit either. You better plan on doing some serious freelance work in just html, css and javascript – Because that’s all you’re going to fucking learn here). You won’t be able to realize that arraying with php is better than filling an html doc with 1,000 lines of code because you need a dozen of the same dividers on a page.

Oh no, you won’t be able to enjoy PHP, SQL or Perl. And why you ask? Who the fuck knows. They only offer two “Programmer” type courses. But I guess, you get what you pay for, eh? $30,000 may sound like a lot to you and I, but when you put it next to say – $100,000, not so big anymore, right? But then again, you learn everything for that $100,000.

I don’t think I’ll be attending this institution for a degree. As a matter of fact, I think I’ll create a sort of degree myself. Maybe name it the ‘I got this piece of paper for free’ degree. E-Book’s don’t cost a penny, and I have thousands on disc. I’ll update via this blog, or maybe just create an entirely new site devoted to free higher education. Come to think of it, guy we sponsor for the newsletter (Brandon) is starting something like that. Maybe I’ll ask him if he wants to partner up on it.. Stay tuned!

I’m supposed to go to Everest to pick up my books this Saturday, not sure if I’ll be there, but I’ll definitely be in there eventually to cancel my enrollment (If they won’t do it over the phone).

Until next time.

-Nito