Learning after college
Ever wanted to study at an extremely prestigious, expensive, cutting edge university? By the end of this year, MIT will have all its courses available online for free. Every class that some of the smartest and luckiest people in the world take is at your fingertips.
What you don’t get is contact with a professor. Or even his lectures, only his lecture notes. On top of that, there isn’t anyone to grade your assignments and when you’re all done you’ll have no degree to show for it. I kinda wish there was someone to grade the work (pass/fail) so I could put it on my resume “Oh, you know, I take some OpenCourseWare classes through MIT online in my free time.”
Why am I not ’studying’ there right now? Well, there are 3 major expenses during college. Food, entertainment and books. The courses don’t come with free copies of the reading material and textbooks are probably the biggest unopposed monopoly I know of. Mostly because college students don’t vote and old people don’t mind gouging them for all they can.
