Anything above VB6 is broken. VB 2005 was a horrible exercise in trying to mix event-driven- and object oriented programming, and I don't think there's a stable version of VB 2008 yet. VB6, one the other hand, is fantastic - pure, event-driven programming.

I'm afraid to say that I did learn VB6 at college (though the English version of college - years 12 and 13. I believe that what Americans call "college" is what we call "University").