u/After-Offer3213

Hey! I'm looking to connect more with the local Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, and I see online a few mentions of a meetup at the starbucks on South and 11th on Wednesday nights, but the comments are all from awhile ago, and they're on Facebook (so I, not having FB, can't message the commenters). My Wednesday nights are kind of busy, and I wouldn't want to go to a Starbucks over better shops near there, so I'm hesitant to go if the meetups have died out.

Since they were pretty ad-hoc, I can't really reach out to An Organization to check or anything, so I'm curious if anyone here has any connection to that and can speak to if they're still happening? If not, I'd love to hear what else is out there. I've been following DHCC, but their events are usually in the suburbs or few and far between, not sure where else to turn to find other signers.

About half way through the master's degree at Eastern, and seeing fellow students struggling with extremely basic technical issues is making me realize that this program really is just for people looking to get a piece of paper to appease HR. I kept telling myself that "oh I'm still in the intro level classes, it'll ramp up eventually" but it's getting harder to believe that. I have had many doors closed on me due to the lack of abbreviations next to my name, so I'll keep plugging away at this, but that doesn't change how unsatisfied I am with what is being covered.

One thing sorely lacking is anything at all about the underlying mathematics at play. They're teaching us the tools, yes, but not why they matter or the logic behind their use. It's like being taught how to use a hammer and then calling yourself an architect. We had a single "statistics for data science" class, which again taught us how to get the numbers we needed in R, but not really what those numbers mean or how they're used, so it's not really useful.

Where can I go to learn the things this program is not bothering to teach us? It's really frustrating to pay $900 every eight weeks and still feel like I need to go elsewhere to actually learn what I need to learn, but here we are.