I just saw an ITT Tech ad showing a guy who claims he felt “trapped” by his degree in poetry. So he went to ITT Tech to learn a new skill and expand his horizons. Now he has a great career and makes a lot of money as a software engineer.

Trapped. That must be poetic license for “hungry.”

Comments

1. Chris on 2006-06-13 08:32:00 wrote: Trapped by his degree in poetry? And we’re supposed to take career advice from a guy who picked poetry as his college program? Maybe if he was touting the benefits of iambic pentameter, but not career advice.

2. Veronica on 2006-06-16 05:22:36 wrote: Trapped? He must have been so hungry he became delirious. I used to fear becoming trapped, but now I feel excluded by my art degree - excluded from all the jobs. I wish I could be trapped in a lovely office with an expensive computer, and a six digit salary. Trapped doesn’t sound so bad these days.

3. larissa on 2006-06-18 20:19:12 wrote: Oh I love the ITT Tech Ads. They’re usually like “My boyfriend was a complete loser until he went to ITT Tech! Now I do him every night!”

4. Simon on 2006-06-19 00:04:39 wrote: LOL! I am a declared “Political Science” major, but I sampled business and am planning to go to law school (to be an ambulance chaser). Yet, I freelance as a web design, and hopefully web developer within a year.

5. Pewari on 2006-06-19 00:22:41 wrote: I bet he has very neat and ordered code though…

6. Justin on 2006-07-24 10:35:43 wrote: great observation! I have a degree in Literature, which means, as starving artists go, I’m more starving than artist. But ITT tech!?! I wonder if he feels trapped in his programmer’s cubicle?

7. tp on 2006-07-26 22:44:15 wrote: It’s BECAUSE he started out in poetry that he could switch to IT. Start out in IT – much harder to switch to other things. That doesn’t define as “trapped” to me.

8. benji borden on 2006-07-30 05:37:25 wrote: Being a starving poet has its ups and downs, but what you lack in compensation you make up for in surliness and ego.

9. JD on 2006-08-20 09:56:07 wrote: I would have to disagree with your topic….. being that I have some inside knowledge…. There doesn’t happen to be such a commercial for ITT Tech… A lot of people and I do mean a lot get them mixed up with a slew of those lesser non degree granting institutions….ITT Tech happens to be a great place to get your Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree…. They have a lot more going for them than you might ever think… More businesses turn to them for their graduates and their career centers have the results to prove it. They have a higher percentage of their graduates who get jobs within their field of study than larger universities…… Have a great day!

10. Jeff on 2006-08-22 14:24:51 wrote: Pewari wrote “I bet he has very neat and ordered code though…” Ha! Unless he prefers blank verse… Funny to think of this guy’s code reviews, when they find out it all rhymes and has readable meter (timing). ;-) I wonder what programming languages are most amenable to poetic coding. Of course this brings up the classic joke: What did the liberal arts grad say to the engineering grad? “Would you like fries with that?”

11. Pat on 2006-08-31 14:29:27 wrote: JD - I think you’re confused with MIT..we’re talking about ITT. And are you kidding me about the commercial!!! I’ve seen it about 50 times and wanna kill myself everytime I see it. I went to ITT Tech and of the 12 people I am currently the only one with a job in a relatively related field… BTW: It took me a year to get and oh yeah…I had a 4.0!! I appleied to over 50 businesses got about 8 interviews and finally got a job over a year later. If you ask me, ITT is a horribly inconsistent school in terms of teaching quality and it’s standards. I could go on much longer, but I leave the long rants for ittsucks.com

12. mike on 2006-09-07 15:20:36 wrote: I’m a current student at ITT Tech, studying for my A.A.S. I want to see an ITT Tech ad based on reality; where the career services post cattle calls, not career opportunities. I currently am working in an entry level position, for an entry level wage, and even that I found through means outside of ITT. Like Pat, I die a little inside each time I see an ad for ITT, and I haven’t even started paying my student loans back yet.

13. tom on 2006-09-26 21:31:08 wrote: Pat great post. Larissa, i hope you see this. YOur post made me crack up. First time ive laughed all week. Thanks guys for the comedy. Oh yeah, JD you were a joke!!

14. Search Engines WEB on 2006-11-26 01:54:54 wrote: He could have also considered being a Web site text editor or a desktop publisher :-)But now, his degree, college loans and his parents funds went to waste

15. JK on 2007-01-02 17:58:16 wrote: I don’t understand all the hostility??? You get out what you put in and find it very hard to believe that A students had trouble finding a job, did you even have any experience in the field? I graduated with a $50,000 starting salary, company car, cell phone, laptop, and I work out of my apartment in the medical field, and I am not much different then anyone else except that I wanted it more.

16. bond on 2007-09-23 13:38:30 wrote: Check out youtube.com and Yahoo! Answers for the public’s view of this “school”.

17. Ken on 2007-11-22 04:52:12 wrote: Five reasons not to go to ITT Tech. 1. The school is a watered down version of a real university which means that employers will not take your degree seriously. ITT Tech has a bad rep in the industry. 2. ITT Tech is ACICS accredited, which means that it does not have the same accreditation of a normal university. In other words, once you graduate, none of your coursework will count for a masters degree at any REAL university. 3. ITT Tech is extremely expensive. You mine as well go to Harvard for dummies. 4. ITT Tech is a publicly traded company and the stock price is booming. This means that it is a business and not a school. 5. ITT Tech accepts all those who could not get into a normal university and dumbs down all the requirements in order to keep money coming in in exchange for a useless certificate. I know, I used to study there.

18. Mike Smti on 2008-02-05 09:29:47 wrote: ITT Tech stands for It Takes thickheaded To enlist complete hostility

19. Chris M on 2008-06-11 11:39:55 wrote: This is regarding Ken’s post: Ken obviously you did not pass the Composition course at ITT. Is that why you are bitter?

20. robert on 2008-12-21 08:34:45 wrote: Itt-Tech is a bad school. I go there now and the only reason I stay is because if i leave right now I have to pay back all of the money that I had to borrow from the school because I could not get a loan to cover what my student loans would not. Yeah I have a 4.0, but I do not study and I have not even read any of my books. I think the dumbest people on the planet could graduate from this college. and as far as getting a job, there are people here that have jobs at companys that make solar panels. They got these jobs through Itt-Tech with an associates degree and are making only $12.00 an hour. I worked at a company that slit steel coils with no degree and made around $40000 a year. What a joke. I would not even work for $12.00 an hour after getting my degree that won’t even pay my student loans, let alone trying to make my house payment and sopporting my family. Itt-Tech is a F%KING joke.*