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you expect me to take courses on operating systems and networking and algorithms and machine learning and whatever?

i was writing HTML web pages by hand at age 5, installing slackware on production servers at age 6, regularly browsing the web on wifi through a command-line-only slackware install with w3m at age 9 (and using kismet to poke networks i shouldn't have been on the same laptop), teaching myself C and C++ at age 11 or so, switched primarily to debian and learned how to build software from source and ran gameservers from an actual datacenter with my own public IP when i was about 12, performed ARP spoofing attacks on my school network when i was 14 just for fun (nobody and nothing was harmed), wrote a library implementing multi-layer perceptrons and backpropagation training in C at the same age and performed OCR with it, wrote IRC chatbots in lua (with nothing but luasocket) when i was 15, i was teaching other students in my school's C++ class at age 16 because the teacher we had that year wasn't (and writing all sorts of bullshit in z80 assembly on my calculator - actually on it, self-hosted), and i was writing my own tiny kernel for x86 systems and testing it on a netbooted beowolf cluster i'd built out of discarded university-surplus thin client machines when i was 17

i feel like a lot of CS degrees wouldn't cover half of the stuff i learned myself because of being shown how to use the things around me and then being left mostly unsupervised with them for ~10-15 years