What I got out of JC: - A good english teacher (Strunk and White). My writing improved tremendously. - Calculus - A taste for history What I didn't get: -

What I got out of JC: - A good english teacher (Strunk and White). My writing improved tremendously. - Calculus - A taste for history What I didn't get: - Anything relevant to CS - Any good math beyond calculus (they offered "statistics for business majors", which was really lame) On the whole it was a good way for a self-learner to get some cheap learning out of the way, and also get some job experience (as a coop in the IT shop of a local government organization).