Mosaic3

Hi everyone, I recently was accepted into the OMSCS Master's Degree program at Ga Tech, which is great, because it is a very sought after program right now. However, my undergrad was MIS and I've spent the majority of my professional career (~8 years) in a sys admin / engineer type role. That being the case, I have a very limited programming background with only cursory experience in a few languages. So I'm kind of torn at the moment, part of me wants to give it a go and maybe take one course at a time, while learning the programming on the fly. While, another part of me thinks that I might be fighting a losing battle and wasting time and money. Any thoughts on how I should proceed? Thanks