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Well, that's the thing. I am mostly just here to learn the hard stuff I wouldn't have occasion to teach myself. Discrete math, data structures, etc. Plus, just based on my experience of constant job offers from networking and having a decent-sized number of repos on github, I don't feel like my options are all that limited, with regard to companies I want to work at.

I just don't want to have regrets in 3-5 or 15 or 30 years.

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That was actually my reason for wanting to go back to school. I wanted to be able to ask questions in case I got stuck learning math. I ended up with horrible math professors (each with 10+ years of experience) and had to teach myself discrete math, linear algebra, and differential equations.

I hope you will have better luck with professors than I, but in hindsight, I would have been far better off financially and emotionally if I hired a private tutor when needed instead of paying tuition.

Yes, my calculus professor this semester is terrible.

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