Too expensive?
Currently in class for the Cisco course. The trainer looks like an exact copy of Nobita in Doraemon but except this guy is smart in what he is teaching and he doesn’t whine. Unlike Nobita who always end up asking Doraemon for help. (Jap Anime fan here!) He was pretty boring. And I mean like dead boring. For a course on network, I thought it would have been abit more lively but it felt like it was an Advanced Maths class. He was about 10 minutes into the class when suddenly he slapped his head and said he forgot to give us a written test.
You can imagine the shock that all of us had. A test? We even started the first chapter. Almost like sensing our fears, he laughed and said that it was just competency test to sort of see how we would do in the class. I was already cursing him but in a good enlightenment way. But before we started the test, he begin to explain about the course and the modules that we were forced to learn. Crash course to the world of Cisco. I felt like I was stuck in a HOOD movie with all the weird (network actually!) lingo goin on. Among the things that he explained was about the fees for the exams. It’s like nearly RM600 just for a single paper. Talk about a ripoff. On top of that we would need to cramp about 6 months worth of subjects into just less than a few weeks. Cool eh? Like cutting your wrist and just letting yourself bleed while timing how long it takes for you to drop into your own pool of blood. Cruel but true.
Me and the other unfortunate ppl have been drawn into a really dim situation. How the hell could we cramp a course that would normally take about 6 months to complete within a few weeks? I’m praying hard for a miracle like maybe Cisco had a good side by giving all of us free certs. LOL. Big wish I guess.
I always wonder how did these so-call experts came up with the price tag? And on top of that they say it’s affordable for students. Hello, newsflash, ppl from other parts of the world like us don’t really enjoy having a big currency…Hmm, the world’s current economy affairs sucks but hey it’ been like that since man became obssesed with money. I guess Cisco is an example of how corporations make their money by over-charging just for a paper. What has the world come to? Peace!
