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You are better off trying to make things work out at a local community college or 4-yr university. If this is about finding classes at the right hours of the day, a community college likely will have them in the evening as well as during the day. If this is about money, see what the public institutions can do for you _before_ you take the plunge with such places. In general, the price at a public place will be much lower and the quality of courses better. A 4-yr college usually as a capstone project the last year with local businesses, too, and you will make good contacts from that experience. If you can consider a 4-yr program, anyway. And the community colleges will likely have someone there to help with finding a job, as well, both while attending as well as afterwards.

You seem pretty sharp to me, Noah. I looked over some of your answers elsewhere. I have a pretty good idea now that you can handle the classwork at a public institution. A 4-yr university may be confusing to navigate at times when they should do more to help than they do. So I generally recommend trying the first two years -- or at least the first year -- at a local community college. You get smaller class sizes, teachers very much interested in actually teaching their subjects and doing a good job at it, and the price is less, besides. So your money is spent better. And if you decide to go further, they should be able to transfer most of what you took to a university situation.

ITT Tech is NOT the same thing, though. And they are very, very expensive for what is delivered to you, by comparison with public institutions. The rest of your questions are likely to be answered as "whatever floats your boat with them, they will sell you." So if you think you only have a year, they may figure out how to sell you a 1-yr program. Etc.

Noah, your question, "Can anyone learn the material successfully?" is suggestive that you are at a sensitive time on this topic. And they will sell you this hope, gladly. But I can already see that you are quite capable.

What is true about the world, though, is that a lot depends upon who is teaching you. Not the material. The person. Our society, our world, is like a living memory system. The books and papers carry but a tiny fragment of the knowledge that is carried by each of us living here. You are capable. I've no question there. What you need is the exposure to the right minds who can pass along what they "see" and where they can interact, listen to how you visualize, and then answer your questions in the way that connects better with how you learn. That part of the process -- the part about finding those you need as teachers -- is kind of random. But you can shop around a bit. Don't just take any class that teaches "MTH 211" for example, but find the class taught by a teacher you can connect with. This may require an interview or talking with department chairs about yourself. Some teachers are woefully bad no matter where you find them. And some are absolutely fantastic, also no matter where you find them. So look and find. Don't assume you will get the same thing from the same class -- the material to be covered, if transferable to other schools, will be similar -- but the teaching can be starkly different. And it is NOT your fault -- it is theirs -- if you can't seem to pick it up. I've no doubt you can manage from what I've already seen.

And just so you know, my wife has always wondered why people bother staying alive -- she cannot understand why others want to continue. And when she was a teenager, she tried and failed to end it. I love her dearly for all of who she is and would change nothing because then she wouldn't be the person I love anymore.

If you like the idea of never having a credit rating, a tax refund check, SS retirement checks or for that matter a functional checking account that you control -- go for either one of those for-profits. To think that the counter help at a franchise food hut will make more expendable income than graduates of those places you mentioned.

The banks LOVE making loans to suckers at those schools. The banks know the fed will pay any penalty, any interest, any arrears. From the bankers' viewpoint Student Loans are a guaranteed profits of 20-50%.

They are a rip off. Check with your local colleges and see if they have any of these courses. I did it through my local college at half the price and got a student loan to do it and had job placement.

They have commercials on the TV, there's a 1-800 number.