Does anyone know what the acronym ITT actually stands for?

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Hey, great site! I am a current ITT student and will graduate this spring. I was just wondering if the letters ITT actually ever stood for anything. I asked my recruiter when I was about to sign the papers "What does ITT stand for, anyhow? He was caught off guard and vaguely replied some gibberish about it being a redundancy for IT. "You mean like Information Technology Technologies Technical Institute?" I replied. "Thats more than redundant, that's retarded." I asked several teachers and even the dean, and nobody could give me a clear, honest answer. This is because ITT doesn't stand for anything.

I knew it when I signed the papers. Sure, I was high but thats no excuse. Maybe I just wanted to go here so that I could work to expose this system for the B.S. that it truly is. Yeah, thats it.

But I got a plan for these bastards. I will continue to go to ITT part time for the rest of my life if I have to, I will take every course since they are all retardedly easy anyhow and get my student loans up well above 100K or even 200k. As long as you are a student you don't have to pay on your loans, right? I will only show up every third week of class and I will do just enough to pass. I will take a break from school every other quarter too, just to streach it further. But they will not be able to collect on my loans because I will not go 6 months without being a student. And one day when I have all the knowledge I will stage my death and get a new identity. Or maybe I really will die, and if so f**k em' I'll see em' in HELL!

[sevenalive]

It
Takes
Time to realize it's a scam.

[GauntletsTheFighter]

But I got a plan for these bastards. I will continue to go to ITT part time for the rest of my life if I have to, I will take every course since they are all retardedly easy anyhow and get my student loans up well above 100K or even 200k. As long as you are a student you don't have to pay on your loans, right? I will only show up every third week of class and I will do just enough to pass. I will take a break from school every other quarter too, just to streach it further. But they will not be able to collect on my loans because I will not go 6 months without being a student. And one day when I have all the knowledge I will stage my death and get a new identity. Or maybe I really will die, and if so f**k em' I'll see em' in HELL!

Yeah! Do dat! Or what u could do is smuggle a bomb on campus, plant it in da bathroom somewhere inconspicuous (make sure it has a whole buncha gasoline up in it) and detonate it at midnight. Say goodbye 2 dat campus!

Yeah! I b crazy like dat sometimes.

[aka name]

This is because ITT doesn't stand for anything.:

It used to stand for International Telephone and Telegraph, but that company was broken-up and now it's just a label.

As long as you are a student you don't have to pay on your loans, right?

There are time limits and other stipulations involved.

[BlackDragonZero]

I believe you have to be going at least part time or above. In this case two classes. But this is an interesting thought. At any rate, they would still be getting paid, it's just the lenders would be unhappy lol.

[aka name]

I think it's half time, as defined by the college. The interest may still compound, but you can make interest-only payments while in school (I did).

[SheepToTheFleecing]

But I got a plan for these bastards. I will continue to go to ITT part time for the rest of my life if I have to

Sounds like a bad plan. You are giving them money. Also, won't having to interact with those phonies, liars, and slackers begin to suck away at your life energy?

is smuggle a bomb on campus, plant it in da bathroom somewhere inconspicuous...

It is amazing how much comfort and relief I used get from thinking about sending as many of those con artists and slackers (just the (, IMHO,) douchey slackers) to the grave as possible. I spent a lot of time fantasizing about killing and/or torturing. It was one of the few things that brought me relief.

Then I decided to edit the Wikipedia entry to include the larger scandals that ITT Tech had been involved in. They have very good, aggressive, and sneaky PR. (They are NOT slackers.) While I did give up on the whole Wikipedia thing prematurely, I think these people are far far better at making ITT smell good than I am at exposing it. I think a lot of people believe that their own college experience was too easy or stupid or something and they... wait a minute never mind... practically everybody over the age of 17 knows that the education at ITT Tech is a joke and that the degree is worthless. (They probably don't know how high the tuition is though.)

Luckily that passed. Anyway, I do believe that burning down the building would be immoral. All things being equal, hurting oneself is immoral. Besides, fire insurance would pay for EVERYTHING. That campus would still be there.

I don't have any proactive advice. Aside from writing the BBB and the state's District Attorney. Of course that won't get you any of your "money" back. That would cause too many unintended consequences. It is better we should have this scam take place for generation after generation. I used to be an a naive patriot... I have no idea what I am now.

I have problems other than no education, no credit, and my financial debt to SLM. The simple fact of the matter is that there is nothing I can do to about any of those things. I simply need to accept it. They are too powerful and there are too many of them and they make a lot of money doing this. I don't understand why all of the instructors didn't just teach anyway. It certainly seems like it would be the ethical way to kill a few hours.

P.S. Gathering evidence is pretty impossible to do without breaking laws and then admitting to having broken said laws when presenting the evidence. Actually, now that I think about it recording a college lecture is pretty standard stuff. I am not sure that being a horribly shitty teacher is a crime though. Best you could do is go PUBLIC with it and get the teacher fired. Recording conversations with the "Student Representatives" without permission is definitely illegal unless you can get them to tell you some of their lies outside or in the hall or something, in which case I am not sure. Besides, maybe they believe that BS that they are spewing; WE fell for it. The "finacial [aid]" people don't actually break any laws, they simply betray their own consciences. (I think.)

I would think that the very way that they grade is a way of inflating grades in order to get more financial aid. There was a case in California involving grade inflation in order to procure more government financial aid. (Giving us the answers, assigning work that could be done by a small child.)

I don't know. Whatever man. I don't know what the hell I need to do, but it sure doesn't involve ITT Tech. Or thinking about.................

My stomach hurts and I am very tired. I am going to do everything I can to wake up with something like hope.

I haven't had a sane plan since my plan to become a technician and then an engineer. It is too early for me to plan anything. I am just going to get through the day.

I really really wish I didn't have these blatantly criminal criminals to blame for all my problems. MY problems are MY problems. I simply cannot seem to grasp that.

I was too naive, too trusting and that trust was betrayed. Socrates said something about how that can lead to misanthropy. I don't know about that but I do think that the-powers-that-be should not have let this go on for as long as it has. What I meant to say is that I really hate those ITT Tech fuckers and I am really sleepy.

To sleep, perchance to dream.

[GauntletsTheFighter]

Now here go 1 2 add 2 da acronym standings...

Irritating
Technical
Tormentors

... Probably not all dat funny, but what da hell.