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Anon is an engineer (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How do I become smart? All I do are online courses for tech and such. I have an established career. Good money, house family and shit

Congrats, you are smart.

The challenge you have now is to acknowledge and feel it.

but I want the prestige of at least having a degree

So here's the problem. you want the prestige, not the intelligence. You can get a degree in various ways if you want, and have the time. You can attend a university course part time, or through their online facilities. Choose a topic you've done a lot of online courses for and try for a degree.

But I’m functionally retarded with math.

There's resources online to help with this, maybe the new methods will help you understand math concepts better. Common core, khan academy, and the sponsor of this lemmy post, skillshare

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For some tracks there are even speedrun/lower-cost guides for online degrees through places like WGU. They except transfers from online courses as well. You can do it cheap, especially if you get tuition reimbursement.

I just found out my state (Massachusetts) offers associates programs at any state CC for anyone who doesn't already have a degree. For adults over 25 the program is called MassReconnect. I'd have to look into transfers, but I imagine those could be transferred to WGU towards a 4yr or post-grad degree. Some of the CC programs can also be done all (or mostly) online.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Michigan does this as well.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do want to earn the degree. Not fast track my way through or anything. Im 33. I skipped higher education for CS, MS, Networking certs. The general ed courses are my only stopping block. And widdling that down more it really is math.

I won't commit until I put my money where my mouth is most of the time. I've learned that from burning myself out with certs.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The general ed courses are my only stopping block. And widdling that down more it really is math.

It sounds like you're from the US. Some of the international universities might have paths that don't require strict maths... maybe a logic course? Not sure.

Anyway, part time education doesn't fast track, it's usually the opposite. Check out some courses to see if they might offer you a path that's more suitable.

For example, this course from London Met doesn't have any maths requirements :

https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/computer-networking-and-cloud-security---beng-hons/

However, part time/remote options aren't very clear on that website.

You can do this course remotely with the Open university , but it has maths requirements

https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/computing-it/degrees/bsc-computing-it-communications-networking-q62-cnet

most important is that you enjoy it. Not having the degree didn't stop you achieving before, so it should be for self fulfilment. I also don't have a degree per se (more a diploma/dropout) but it's fun to look into this stuff and play pretend with a stranger's life from time to time.

Best of luck with everything, dear stranger.