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These things happen when you're just getting starting its normal we live and learn.

Just hoping they start a slightly more flexible cohort for people who are working and looking for the next promotion

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What would we need to change about our part-time classes to make it accessible to you?

Having shorter weekday hours and longer weekend hours would make it perfect. I was in the process of registering for the March 2019 data science cohort, however I dropped it as I did not want to take someone else's spot. Could not commit to 3 hours a day (on a week day)

Interesting. So could you give me an example schedule that gets to at least 20 hours/week?

Monday to Thursday 1 hour each Friday off Saturday 8 hours Sunday 8 hours

That’s one example I could think of. The day off could also move around so Monday could be off

Hmm, very interesting

Something I noticed for part-time classes is that they are mostly 6pm-9pm PST. That becomes 9pm-12am on the East Coast, where I live. That's not feasible if you're also working a 9-5 job; it's signing up to be sleep deprived for 18 months. The science on the negative health effects of chronic sleep deprivation being extremely clear, I'd never sign up for that.

We alternate time zones, so sometimes it’s e.g. 6-9 Eastern.

Might be worth mentioning somewhere near the schedules; I only saw one 4-7 PST (so 7-10 EST) full stack part time course in the upcoming courses list after checking all of the current upcoming schedules. Every other upcoming part-time course currently listed is 6-9 PST. It would be easier to come away from that thinking this is really only for West Coast students.

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