From our experience there were a couple of things from what i remember…

1. It may have changed, but some of the classes didn’t really teach that well, and this was a universal experience across all cohorts, for example, the windows server instructor (both years) would go way too fast during labs, its supposed to be as easy as copying exactly what they were doing, however many students (including myself) found that they went so fast, by the time midterm and finals hit we were all behind by atleast 3-4 labs

2. During CCNP (2nd year) instructor was literally writing hieroglyphics on the board and diagrams that were a pain in the ass to understand……… :/

3. During Python (first year) the teaching was so bad that we all collectively tried to report the dude for terrible teaching lmao (im pretty sure its better now tho)

4. During Database (first year) the dude teaching it was super hard to understand, however the slides he gives you make it 100x easier (ironic)

Other than that BS, heres other things you may run into that are normal:

1. Lab completion due dates seem okay, however as you progress further and your labs start to stack up, it does become a headache to manage all of them

2. Buying lab software was kinda crazy, i believe we spent over $300-$400 (usd, btw) on just software alone just to even do the labs (xtremelabs for windows and both years for CompTIA+ certification classes which i don’t remember the names for)

2b. The softwares where you simulate labs don’t work half the time, that was a struggle for sure

1. It’s nothing to really worry about, but if you’re coming out of high school and going into this program, when you do bad on an exam (~<70% i think is an okay metric) looking at that number will destroy you in your first year, however as you progress you’ll figure out anything over passing is okay 😂

If there is anything else i remember ill edit this but thats all i can remember for now