Another takeaway, IMO, use infrastructure-as-code to define the components in your infrastructure, so something like this critical firewall configuration won't be missed
I think there are alot of crappy teachers out there, and this proposition would help weed some of them out. Now that I mention that, there are also alot of crappy students out there. This would be a great system to pair up crappy students that want crappy teachers and good students that want good teachers.