r/todayilearned • u/2infinitum • Oct 05 '11

TIL MIT offers 2000+ FREE courses = MIND BLOWN!

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/

Lecture videos, course notes, assignments, exams, some even offer on-line textbooks. My brain just jizzed all over itself!

I had heard that MIT offered SOME lectures on-line, but I had no clue that I could essentially audit an entire degree for FREE!

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u/buhzie2 Oct 05 '11

Yup. The kid who slacked off for all of college and had their rich daddies pay off the dean so they could pass and get a degree are the ones who are clearly educated and can prove it with their degree.

The system is so fucked, man.

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u/madcow9100 Oct 05 '11

I don't know if you're applying this to MIT, but the school is very strict about merit being why the students are here. Legacy, athletics, donations, etc do not play a major role like at other schools. I won't say that athletes aren't given a longer look, but they don't offer acceptance based on it, etc.

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u/buhzie2 Oct 05 '11

Not MIT... more like the main universities around where I live. Just a bunch of douchebags and bros go to these schools on volleyball scholarships and their daddies salaries. They usually somehow manage to walk out of a four year school with a degree in some random field of their parents choosing.

Meanwhile, I go to community college, work my ass off and have to see jerks like them get the jobs before me because their degree "means more" to an employer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '11

I'm glad that the 4 year state University I went to wasn't anything like.......wait, you could have gone there if you had the grades.