[joshuarcher]

100% agree being around other students would be a huge plus. I went to a school where I was surrounded by 40 other amateur programmers all driven towards building awesome products and writing quality code. Being in that environment is what made me obsessed with software.

There's actually a program called Make School that's pretty similar to this Lambda school, except they DO have student dorms and even offer a 2k/month living stipend in SF. Finding Make School on ProductHunt a few years ago was probably one of the highlights of my young adulthood.

https://www.makeschool.com/product-college https://www.producthunt.com/posts/makeschool-gap-year

[austenallred]

You're still surrounded by other software engineers; you have a set class you'll get to know very well.