Professional Student?
I hear this phrase used sometimes about some of my friends who cannot seem to make up their minds about what they want to do with their life. Many of them were “pre-med” with me in undergraduate and for various reasons decided that medicine was not for them. Next a few applied to business school and received their MBA. Finally a couple of them went back to law school and earned a JD and finally joined the working world.
For those of us who don’t have the means or the desire to accumulate a large amount of student debt(been there!) MIT offers what they call OpenCourseWare. It is basically a publication of MIT course materials.
According to the website it is based on MIT’s conviction that the open dissemination of knowledge and information can open new doors to the powerful benefits of education for humanity around the world.
I browsed through some of the classes I wish I had taken in college and found the experience O.K. If you have an interest in a subject and wanted some direction this basically gives you a syllabus to follow and a reading list to help focus your self studies.
Some of the courses are better than others but most provide some combination of syllabus, calender, Readings, lecture notes, assignments and study materials.
Some people may find it difficult to absorb Nuclear science and engineering at home but if you ever get the inkling for some extra homework for your children the guidance is there.
I think I will start with something a little lighter…
