A convenient college coincidence

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March 28th, 2002, 01:08 AM
tenguzero

A convenient college coincidence

I'd already gone to a technical school last year for PC support, and obtained my A+ cert. However, the MONTH I graduated (jan 2001) was when the whole tech sector hit the skids. So here I am a year later going back to school for my assoc. degree in computer sciences (I'm majoring in, what else, networking/security :) ) Upon taking a tour of the school I'm going to apply to (NHTI), I discovered that the networking dept. has just over half a MILLION dollars in routers and other assorted networking equipment donated to them by Cisco (There is a room that is all racks w/routers!!). It's one of only 5 schools in the country that have that facility. And it's a 25 minute drive from where I live. Pretty cool...

Just felt like sharing that ;)
March 28th, 2002, 01:16 AM
Rewandythal

Sounds good...
March 28th, 2002, 03:22 AM
secretagent

care to donate any of that surplus cisco gear to us here in down under? =)
March 28th, 2002, 03:26 AM
delstar

damn...wish i had that kind of opportunity
March 28th, 2002, 03:30 AM
cwk9

The IT department at my college held a tour a few days ago. I went and it was interesting how all the internet traffic for an entire college of 6000 gets crammed into a little fiber cable.

Half a MILLION dollars in routes and servers isn’t that bad for a college or university, those things aren’t cheap.
March 28th, 2002, 03:35 AM
Sick Dwarf

Well, our IT department has....... well, never mind, it really isn't an actual IT department. More like a room with 12 P1 133mhz computers. It's good to have your own computer.
March 28th, 2002, 04:07 AM
Keisha

College

My college built a new technology wing with a nice big grant they got when some dude died. The equipment room has several hundred thousand dollars of fancy equipment to run the whole building. The whole building is this fancy modern archtecture thing with keypads and everything for security on all the classroom doors.

Then they put in sprinkler system in the equipment room. A -water- sprinkler system.

Am I the only one who sees the complete idiocy here?

-Keisha
March 28th, 2002, 04:12 AM
bowlfreak

Cisco Equip

I would luv to have a Cisco Pix to play with, if one becomes avail.
March 28th, 2002, 06:44 PM
souleman

Sounds a lot like the school I went to (GVSU). To bad they didn't install all the routers until AFTER I graduated.
March 28th, 2002, 08:23 PM
bowlfreak

Current company I work for has multiple development and test environments, but not a test or development domain (NT/Win2K/Unix). Plenty of test and development apps and databases, but not a test network to work with.

Ahh...the fun of attempting to break test databases on a live production network. Don't blame me for your shortcomings in planning architecture.
March 28th, 2002, 11:19 PM
ThePreacher

Re: A convenient college coincidence

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Originally posted here by tenguzero
I'd already gone to a technical school last year for PC support, and obtained my A+ cert. However, the MONTH I graduated (jan 2001) was when the whole tech sector hit the skids. So here I am a year later going back to school for my assoc. degree in computer sciences (I'm majoring in, what else, networking/security :) ) Upon taking a tour of the school I'm going to apply to (NHTI), I discovered that the networking dept. has just over half a MILLION dollars in routers and other assorted networking equipment donated to them by Cisco (There is a room that is all racks w/routers!!). It's one of only 5 schools in the country that have that facility. And it's a 25 minute drive from where I live. Pretty cool...

Just felt like sharing that ;)

If you have the patience, I suggest you go through and get a 4 year degree. I have had particular trouble finding a job with just associate degrees.
March 29th, 2002, 06:14 AM
tenguzero

I've been told that I should consider going for my bachelor's. God knows if there's one thing I've learned, it's that just an A+ and some tech schooling won't land you a sweet puter job anymore... I'd only be 24 when I graduated, so I guess I could spare a couple years. But I don't know if I could take living at home for another 4 :rolleyes: . Decisions decisions.
March 29th, 2002, 06:41 AM
ammo

Cisco gear costs an arm... and a leg... and then the other arm and other leg...
They do pretty nice stuff though ;)

In my case however (I administer a 100 PCs network), it's hard to decide if Cisco gear is worth the extra buck... One feature I that I'd like to have from cisco is HSRP... But you can work around it..

Tenguzero: do the run Cisco's network academy program? Net. academy sounds pretty cool, I have some PR portfolio about it and sounds really cool for the kids and older kids (I might follow the courses when I have time and money... )

Ammo
March 29th, 2002, 10:45 AM
RiOtEr

ur all so old?! i want a degree but im to young :(
hehe
RiOtEr
March 30th, 2002, 03:35 PM
tenguzero

Yes, Ammo, they are indeed a fully accredited Cisco academy (They train college professors and system administrators from around the country, supposedly even from other countries, hence Cisco's huge investment in equipment for them) If anyone lives in or around NH (the school is located in Concord) I highly suggest checking it out. I've never seen so many routers in one room in my life...