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Originally Posted by Fruity Pebbles

Im currently going to school *still in high school mind you* for network administration, for in wich i have a mous *in word* certififcation and im also A+ certified working on my Net+ having these gives me a three way turn once i get into collage, Microsoft , Cisco and Computer forenseics + Ethical hacking, but by the time im out of hs, i should have microsoft and ciso done...

So, with all that said, I think im gonna be a Ethical Hacker..or so at least I "dream" too =]

Wow, you are really lucky to get your certs. I wasted a year in A+ and 3 quarters in Cisco in high school learning mostly a bunch of nothing. I wanted to get certified in each but I didn't learn nearly enough to even attempt the tests. I think it was the first time they had the classes offered so they didn't really have the program running very smoothly yet. Both instructors were really stuck in the past, and the Cisco one got serverily ill and we had a substitute for like 2 months. It got really bad with grades and stuff because the substitue gave the assignments but the teacher graded them but he was never there. I got an assignment back that marked me wrong because I spoke of gigabit ethernet and the teacher said there was no such thing. Meanwhile, the rest of the class is wrongfully brainwashed into thinking that BNC connectors, coax cable, and token ring technology is the current standard in networking and made to memorize the OSI layers without even knowing what a router is much less how to configure one. I finally dropped it even when I had a high A grade in the class (that in itself took quite a fight, they'll drop an F student no problem but they won't let an A student drop ) because I just couldn't take it anymore. Learning about technology that hasn't been used in years and not learning anything remotely applicable to real world and present day networking.

I hear it is better now though with some different instructors.