The classes are filmed and feature MIT Professors and MIT Students. The content is posted online. The only downside is you need to download/buy/borrow the books.
Understanding Finance
This course explains all the basics of finance
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-2008/
How to make a good business plan
This course is aimed at MIT Students who want to create a business. It features a rich investor and a guy who created and sold a business to Walmart.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-s21-nuts-and-bolts-of-business-plans-january-iap-2014/
Introduction to CS and Programming using Python
This course at students with little to no experience. It aims to help peopl feel confident in their ability to write simple programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals.
Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century
This course explains modern physics. What is relativity theory? What is quantum theory? How did a bunch of guys create discover nuclear power? Why are scientists studying invisible particles in space?
Speak Italian With Your Mouth Full
This is one of the funniest course. The participants in this seminar will dive into learning basic conversational Italian, Italian culture, and the Mediterranean diet. Each class is based on the preparation of a delicious dish
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/es-s41-speak-italian-with-your-mouth-full-spring-2012/
Tips
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The courses are fantastic, but they can be quiet hard. You need to focus and pay attention. I recommend taking them in the morning. Also, get your smartphone out of the room.
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Take notes. Get an actual pen and paper.
Anna has the books
Ask her
Just saying
We should start using “my friend Anna” similarly to “friend of Dorothy” but for books.
Any computer science courses? I’d love to take an intro to Linux or intro to network hacking class.
I live in Boston. The Greater Boston region genuinely cares more about education than any of other place I’ve lived in the US. Keep in mind that studying here, at any of the Universities, for higher education is ridiculously expensive - partly because so many people compete to be here.
Things like these are why we need to fund higher education. A knowledgeable populace brings innovation, a healthy economy, and diversity which creates a feedback loop for all of it
Greater Boston:
Love Boston culture. It’s like a drunk Irishman, an angry Jamaican, and an intelligent Rob Gronkowski all in one
Harvard also has free courses online!
They are also the “bad guys” in Fallout 4, so keep that in mind.
How America determines which universities to fund
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Might be another one of those fly-by-night accounts.
I mean this is just a good post even if the user is sus. I’ve learned lots of stuff by watching MIT online classes.
Yeah, the content of the post is fine, it’s just this community in particular has been getting a slew of spam accounts that delete themselves within an hour or a day of being created.
They are good, but… they use chalkboards, in 2026. The ABSOLUTE worst Misophonia, ever, via headphones.
Chalkboards and the sound of a marker on paper are the most awful sounds
I dunno I prefer chalk myself personally, but im bot sensitive to sounds so not detracting from your point.
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It took me ages to correctly understand the US expression “in the world”. It doesn’t literally mean that something is the “best in the entire world”, it usually means it is US American and/or pretty good.
Except, it is one of the best engineering schools in the world.
Except when it does in fact mean best in the entire world
Only in “international university rankings” that treat essentially classes being given in the English language as about 1/3 of the score or as they call it, “easiness for international students”.
Or in other words, “for international students” they’re one of the best in the World, to a large extent because all lessons are in English so all else being the same, universities in English-speaking countries will always come above universities in non-English speaking countries because English is the main Lingua Franca at the moment.
Also a lot of the other quality metrics (such as number of published papers) actually measure research proeficiency rather than teaching quality, which whilst relevant for post-grads, isn’t quite as relevant for most students.
Whether if measured from the point of view of the main student community they serve rather than “international post-grad student” MIT is the best in the World, is unclear.
That’s because your education isn’t the best in the anywhere.
They are a CIA training institution
What American uni isn’t?
I also agree, 💯!
Agreed…but they also do a lot of useful engineering/math/physics work, and they’re giving some of it away for free (well if you’re
you already paid for it, but now you get to access the thing you paid for).I agree.
