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You don't know what a college program is like yet, it won't be all about scantron multiple choice questions. It should be hard, and you should get exposed to a
by hogu 16y ago
You don't know what a college program is like yet, it won't be all about scantron multiple choice questions. It should be hard, and you should get exposed to alot of material you hadn't been exposed to. Some of it will be stupid, but that will be a small percentage.
Yes - you could theoretically learn all the stuff you need to learn off of something like opencourseware - but will you?
And there's some cool stuff that will be much harder to learn on your own because you don't have the equipment. The 2 I have in mind are FPGA design, and feedback control systems (balancing pendulums, levitating metal balls with magnetic fields, autonomous race cars)
- todayiamme 16y agoCuriously enough I have made something analogous to your metal ball levitation. I put most of my school year into it, learnt a lot through OCW and it worked. A good college program is like that, but where I live college programs are about reading books, sitting in lectures and getting good grades. I just have this funny feeling that it isn't for me. That said if I had to choose between MIT and Peter Thiel then I would choose MIT hands down no matter what.