No, really. MIT is offering its course materials for download for free online.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
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thaumaturgy
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They've been doing this for a year or two now. It looks, on the surface, like a hit-or-miss proposition. Sometimes there's significant course material and sometimes more outline-type. But to be fair, I've not looked too closely through it.
It does amaze me how MIT approaches some intro topics, though. It is an eye-opener how the big leagues teach some of this stuff. Very theoretical and very high-level.
It makes me respect our new MIT grad chemist here at work a bit more.
I remember hanging out occasionally in the geology library at MIT when I lived and worked in Boston. I wish I could have gone to a bigger school, but I also wonder if I would have been washed out PDQ from such an atmosphere.
It does amaze me how MIT approaches some intro topics, though. It is an eye-opener how the big leagues teach some of this stuff. Very theoretical and very high-level.
It makes me respect our new MIT grad chemist here at work a bit more.
I remember hanging out occasionally in the geology library at MIT when I lived and worked in Boston. I wish I could have gone to a bigger school, but I also wonder if I would have been washed out PDQ from such an atmosphere.
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atomweaver
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You wouldn't. Summer-term science and math courses at Boston U. were simply thick with Harvard and MIT students, who thought that the courses would be easier on a different campus, and they could transfer credits back to their school. My, did they get a rude awakening! Not one of them did better than a "B-" across the half-dozen summer courses I took with them. Most got "Cs". Hmmm, but then again, perhaps these were the ones destined for washing out, to begin with... OK, so yeah, maybe you still would have washed out
(but I doubt it...)
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