I'm going to start passing this around here. I hate Phoenix, AZ but better than where I'm from but the school consensus after being a student for 6 months and nearly through all my training up until the manufacturer electives is pure crap.
So far I haven't spent anything on the school itself b/c of scholarships, but so far it has been a pure ripoff to those who have heard about it, thought about going, or went and seen firsthand. Since I have been there I have gotten in problems for taking shortcuts that make the job faster, have been around pure morons, and some of the instructors I swear couldn't even work on their own bikes. My starting class of roughly 60 is now down to about 35 of them left and there are maybe 4-5 that I would trust w/my bike. In my last class for example we took apart a CRF150 engine, put it together in a frame, ran it, and then redisassembled. I got mine done in a couple hours and perfect as did one other group. The other 9 engine were **** blown up! I mean, what the ****?
I am venting I know but so far have been screwed over. I have not been taught one thing one on one, have not learned anything outside of a manual, and have not been shown anything else outside what the little packets they give you teach. You wanna go to MMI, go pick up a manual for the bike you're working on at home, read it, and well, you're getting the same training. I have not learned much of anything since attending and I'm basically completely through my certifications. I only have 4 more weeks and I'll be a "fully trained mechanic" as they say.
****, they don't even teach fuel injection in this school until you get like 9 weeks into a manufacturer specific program and it's nothing more than basic dyno tuning and using a power commander basically. A pure pile of crap on what they say before you go for the most part. The class I'm in now I finished all my projects in about 2 days and now basically just have to repeat them for the next 2 weeks or so. Not to mention I've done done like 200 times before. (valve adjustments, carb synching, etc.)
I know Kyle, Hannibalcannibal is leaving and he's been there less than half the time I have. I'm not sure if I'm leaving but anyone looking at going gets a huge negative statement from me. The only thing I've learned was a little electrical which if I took the time could've learned from my dad seeing he's an electrical engineer and laughed at the stuff I mentioned they taught me.
So sorry again for venting but right now I'm fed up w/the school. If I stay I have another 8 months bare minimum to "graduate" and get the slip of paper while spending nearly $15k to do so, or can go off and just start what I planned to anyway. I don't regret moving to Phoenix but do regret the school. I am not a college person but MMI is just an excuse for people to say they have been I've noticed. All the students are either young like myself w/no clue or older and failures in life I've noticed. Just talk to them and find out. So the final verdict: MMI = waste of time/money. I've done more complicated things working on my Dales than the school. ****, I knew how to adjust the bike on the EGA machine and tune better than my instructor! So anyone looking for someone to work for them?
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-Rant over..