I dont get it KB, why waste your time on a formal education? Why not just go out, buy some equipment that will hold value and spend you time building things, learning from practice and maybe doing workshops with real pros once in a while? Do you need that piece of paper to get a loan or something?
I'm not doing the piece of paper. I'm doing the "make me do what you want so that I can get some time on $150k machines" dance. We've reached an agreement that next time it will literally be me paying for independent study. There's an effectively-new Doosan Lynx in the corner that nobody knows how to run; I'm going to spend some time running parts on it. This quarter was the impetus for formalizing that arrangement. 'cuz my piece of shit Delrin cylinder was supposed to be a piece of shit foamcore cylinder. And fuck everything about foamcore.