Jobs?

[Jeremy Fowler]

I have to agree with everyone's opinion about DeVry. They are in the business to
make money, education comes second to those people. I went there twice, once in
the EET program and then again in the CIS program; I graduated from neither.
Gene's right about the teachers, when I was going they didn't know shit. Granted
the EET teachers were better than the CIS teachers, and most of them had real
work experience, from what I remember. However, the CIS program was a joke. Plus
the lab computers were all ancient and needed to be upgraded. One of the guys I
work with is a TCOM major and goes there in the mornings, and I remember him
telling me about a teacher reading out of the book for most of the lectures and
when someone asked her a question, she always replies with "Well, could you
clarify?", even if the question was stated as plainly as possible. Talk about
frustrating.

The biggest rip-off those people pull is with student housing. They take a bunch
of two bedroom apartments from around the area, furnish them, and they pay all
the utilities. Each student ends up paying about $500 a month (which is about
the average monthly rate for the apartment itself) to live in a two bedroom
apartment with three other people. They say its no different than living in a
dorm, but I say its not a dorm but an apartment complex and at least in a dorm
you have plenty of space to be alone somewhere in the building. There you have
to share a tiny living room with three other people. Plus they collect about
$2000 from the four students. Minus the rent and utilities, I figure they make
about $1000 profit for one month of us living in that shitty hell-hole. With
their inflated tuition, their "educard" for student books and supplies, and the
outrageous cost of living, you end up paying way too much for an, at best,
mediocre education.

After DeVry, I quit school for awhile and started working as a system admin for
an insurance brokerage. I learned most of what I know by myself. However, I want
to get into programming, so I'm taking some classes at night at Penn Valley.
Penn Valley's Computer Science Program isn't that great, but it is by far
superior to Devry's even if it is only an Associates Degree. I haven't decided
yet, but I think after I finish I'm going to transfer to UMKC, which I hear has
a pretty decent Computer Science Program.

-----Original Message-----
From: jared [mailto:jared at mail.ru]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 10:41 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Jobs?

While i'm at it, i thought i'd spam a bit more to ask if anyone knows of any
good part-time computer repair/build/sales/networking jobs that would work well
for a full time DeVRY student (well, soon to be devry student, currently high
school student for 7 more weeks).  I need a $8/hour or so paying job offering
hours close to 3pm-whenever and possible weekends? This would be great if in the
Overland Park area.  Lately I've been confined to applying at Micro Center and
CompUSA, none of which seem to like highschool kids who try to look cool by
putting linux on their job applications :)

   Jared