Actually, you're totally right that a local college (I would add a more or less central city library) is a really good alternative. I actually do embedded auto

Actually, you're totally right that a local college (I would add a more or less central city library) is a really good alternative. I actually do embedded automotive now, so master's is almost a must but you'd be surprised how many seasoned pros are utterly incompetent in basic things like automata and Boolean algebra that I went through in my first semester.