Originally posted by the_brein damn that sucks. hoped it paid off. and here i am crying about 42k for two years at gnomon. Meh, I'm about 7 classes away from graduating, so I have a ways to go, but the final sum will be in the vicinity of $100k when I am done. And it's not that school didn't help (it did), it's that I have learned the same things from school that I could have learned through purchasing training DVD's or reading tutorials online. That, and the cost difference between school ($100k) and the above mentioned is vastly different...seriously, how much for one of every DVD set S.M. has? I'm not going to go through the entire list, but I'd estimate $1k tops...and that's not counting Digital Tutors and Gnomon. In a nutshell, the difference is the cost; I'll be spending somewhere around a decade paying off my loan.