I agree that the holistic benefits of going back to school are certainly more valuable to me than the CS classes, but I also think that I would appreciate CS in a different way than I would have being 18-23.

I expect that the fact that I am used to working borderline psychotic hours means that I could be able to maybe even perform some interesting work at the same time as studying, but this is not something I think that I should count on. That said, I really want to avoid accumulating debt and the 20-30k that I would expect from a "good" school is something that I am carefully weighing with the more affordable state school.

EWD worked at University of Texas Austin.