It's getting really hard to take a circuitous route to me higher education.
Who thought B.S. Comp. Sci. -> job -> pay down debt -> M.S. Comp Sci -> PhD would be so painful?

The road ahead is looking steep but it will be my contribution to society
1/ B.S. Comp. Sci -> job -> pay debts || B.A. Applied Math is what's available to me, because I missed out on regional accreditation first go 'round.
To do Computational Neuroscience (the original goal) it's looking something like ...
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I find it strange that there is a major lack in effort from companies to retrain their programmers while there's still a technical "talent" gap.
Given that, there's at least two gaps in the higher education system. I'm going to riff for a bit, and we'll see where this goes
1/ First there is a gap in retraining people that want to move. Setting aside the enthusiastic-from-novelty crowd, there are many people in industry putting in off-hours to attain high skills. Yet with everything but a PhD and plurality of publication, it's ✌🏽 to you
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