I’ve already got a career in software, so this is more for personal development.

I tried doing the WGU thing, and I got irritated. It was just a book and I started at chap 1, did all the problems, then moved to chapter 2, etc.

And it took forever. So I cut out the even problems. It still took forever.

And I remember that most college professors bounce around in the book and skip chapters and skip sections, and they’ll give you 7 or 8 problems rather than every odd one.

I tried college before I had my job and I was feeling good about it, except for the fact that I needed a tutor, and the tutoring system sucked there. Raise your hand, wait for 15 minutes for someone to come to you, do 1 problem and then move to someone else and need to wait x minutes for someone to help again.

I already make $90k a year, which I guess isn’t much for a developer with 2.5 paid yrs exp, but I feel like job experience is more valuable at this point, and I have a hard time justifying spending time so inefficiently, and not being able to travel or do whatever.

I like the structure, and having a professor say “ok you’ve done 5 problems in this section time to move on”. Last time i did Khan Academy I felt like I could do too many exercises in a section on accident. The other issue of Khan Academy is it’s unclear where I am in relation to the college. If I go through a schools curriculum then at least I know I’m at calc 2 or whatever in this school.

So the only solution I can think of is to just… pay for a semester of school, get the syllabus and all the homework assignments, and just not worry if I fall behind because I’m doing this for personal development. Pay for a tutor when needed.

Is this a stupid idea?