Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:15 am
For those remembering here and on Cannondaler months ago mainly started by myself and then Hannibalcannibal who also goes to school there now:
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? Looking to go just about anywhere I can.
-Rant over..
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? Looking to go just about anywhere I can.
-Rant over..