>> Udacity and coursera are filling up the gap for college courses, but you need expert professor guidance if you want to do some research. This is definitely

>> Udacity and coursera are filling up the gap for college courses, but you need expert professor guidance if you want to do some research. This is definitely not true across the board. I have multiple peer-reviewed published papers (in pretty solid journals) in a field I never formally studied, and am a college dropout to boot.