Our day begins at 9am every day and ends some time around 6pm. The first 2 weeks of the course, we learned a variety of things. We had a reintroduction to HTML and CSS fundamentals, then went into javascript (I love javascript) and Sinatra, the lightweight ruby web development framework that could be considered the younger smaller brother of Rails. I’ve been on a few practice job interviews and I can tell you, most interviewers have asked me about javascript and Sinatra. I was thrilled to learn about this right off the bat. We’re building software every single day, while working alone and as a team, and I am so very impressed with my classmates. I’ve been working on learning Rails for a year now and I knew I had a little bit of a head start on some of the concepts were learning, but my classmates are keeping up and doing great. Our instructors are thoughtbot Rails engineers, are extremely talented teachers and developers, and patient far beyond what I would expect. On Fridays, thoughtbot has one of thier engineers give us a talk about version control, databases, and other things we need to learn about. It’s amazing to be having a coffee with an engineer in the kitchen on break and think to myself, “I’ve been reading their blog and now we’re having lunch together.” If proximity to highly trained, extremely experienced Rails developers is important to you, I highly doubt you could do better than Metis and thoughtbot. For example, there are a lot of ruby gems (small, pre-written code libraries) that provide neat functionality to Rails apps, but we’re handwriting things like authentication and getting a really fantastic understanding of how Ruby and Rails really works. I did a lot of research into various developer bootcamps and I consider Metis to be the Ivy League.