These are my gripes about Neumont:
1. **Academic freedom**: When you go to Neumont, there is next to no variety of class you can take. Your first year, you don't get to choose any classes. From then on 3/4 of your classes are already pre-registered based on what program you decided to enter. The electives that you get, range from Artificial Languages (You learn Klingon) to Math-Based Codes, Cyphers & Secrets. You have next to no opportunities to study something mildly interesting besides classes that relate to your degree.
2. **Instructor competency**: During my time at Neumont, I wasn't impressed (teaching wise, not personality wise) with just under half of my instructors. There was one instructor that said so many ridiculous and outrageous things so often, [I started to write them down](pastebin.com/k9vWuCa7). Turns out he was the head of the Computer Science program. Two other instructors had their lessons for the entire quarter directly copied from a tutorial online.
3. **Instructor credentials**: Most instructors I had there were temporary or imported from somewhere else. I had two instructors that were employees from the University of Utah. As for the permanent …show more content…
**Neumonts' attitude toward education**: Neumonts' only plan is to get you a job as fast as possible, nothing more. Everything else is secondary. Every time there was an assembly the would end most sentences with “and you're here to get a job”. During my beginning orientation, my whole class had a lecture on how our grades directly influence what kinds of offers they get. They treated higher education as an inconvenience. What Neumont communicated to me was that unless it is your job all other education is a waste, that you shouldn't have to learn about the world you are in unless it benefits you when you get a job. The way I see it, Neumont gets you a job and nothing else, a regular university allows you to have a career and a perspective on the world, not just our narrow slice of
1. **Academic freedom**: When you go to Neumont, there is next to no variety of class you can take. Your first year, you don't get to choose any classes. From then on 3/4 of your classes are already pre-registered based on what program you decided to enter. The electives that you get, range from Artificial Languages (You learn Klingon) to Math-Based Codes, Cyphers & Secrets. You have next to no opportunities to study something mildly interesting besides classes that relate to your degree.
2. **Instructor competency**: During my time at Neumont, I wasn't impressed (teaching wise, not personality wise) with just under half of my instructors. There was one instructor that said so many ridiculous and outrageous things so often, [I started to write them down](pastebin.com/k9vWuCa7). Turns out he was the head of the Computer Science program. Two other instructors had their lessons for the entire quarter directly copied from a tutorial online.
3. **Instructor credentials**: Most instructors I had there were temporary or imported from somewhere else. I had two instructors that were employees from the University of Utah. As for the permanent …show more content…
**Neumonts' attitude toward education**: Neumonts' only plan is to get you a job as fast as possible, nothing more. Everything else is secondary. Every time there was an assembly the would end most sentences with “and you're here to get a job”. During my beginning orientation, my whole class had a lecture on how our grades directly influence what kinds of offers they get. They treated higher education as an inconvenience. What Neumont communicated to me was that unless it is your job all other education is a waste, that you shouldn't have to learn about the world you are in unless it benefits you when you get a job. The way I see it, Neumont gets you a job and nothing else, a regular university allows you to have a career and a perspective on the world, not just our narrow slice of