Checking out schools

The time has come and now I have to look into schools. I think that I have found a school with all the right programs, I'm trying to get into some kind of computer field cause I constantly see jobs for IT professionals. I know some people who work in the computer field and the money is good and the job security is a good as it's going to get. The school I'm going to see tomorrow offers job placement while going to school and it has a program that let's you go back after you graduate and keep up to date with the latest computer science. I'm excited about school and can't wait to check it out. It's been awhile since I've been in a class and I really want to see what a career based school looks like. Why anyone would go to a traditional college is beyond me unless your going into the medical field or want to be a professor of something. I feel like I don't have to know the history of Poland to fix a computer problem or take 4 years of a dead language to get software to work, if I want to learn those things I can always go to the local library and pick up the right books for the hobby. Many things intrest me but I shouldn't have to pay for them in a college when knowledge is free to all who seek it.