University

So, I finally decided after a few years of staying inside to go and apply to a local university.
At the presentation they did to us, they talked about:
1: How they will teach us about ``design patterns''
2: That we will learn to use UML
3: How happy we will be when we write out first program
4: That we will learn cool and powerful languages under the name of Assembly (MASM), PHP, Java, C# and C++
5: That we will learn to use the MS^tm Visual Studio (lol)

Where can someone find quality education nowadays? And what job could a computer scientist get? I don't want to become a code monkey like Nikita.

That's the first two years. You'll have to put up with a lot of bullshit. Afterwards, you'll have the prerequisites necessary to take interesting courses. Declare a second major of math to keep from drinking bleach. I also enjoyed philosophy of math and science classes. But you'll be doing most of your learning in the library. Or, at least I did. I actually read my SICP before coming to /prog/, and I kept renewing it for an entire semester so no one else could read it. I had plenty of time to learn it, because I had gotten in a fight with the bus driver, so I was too cowardly to go to class, so stayed in my apartment for a month straight. Being a shut-in is a great way to get a quality computer science education.

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I actually read my SICP before coming to /prog/, and I kept renewing it for an entire semester so no one else could read it.

I renew my copy of SICP for like 6 months. I was able to do this because literally nobody else wanted it, I'm sure it was the same for you.