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I think that the will power to go through 3 or 4 years worth of lectures on your own would be the main blocker. The main benefit to in-class learning is that yo
by truly 5y ago
I think that the will power to go through 3 or 4 years worth of lectures on your own would be the main blocker. The main benefit to in-class learning is that your peers drive you, and you drive your peers.
As a not-on-campus-learner, you should probably concentrate on smaller pieces that can be had individually. It would not hurt to have a small community to discuss the things that you learn (e.g., peers at work) to keep you motivated as well.
- varelse 5y agoI was a curve breaker in college. These courses are fantastic for filling in the missing details left out to rehash the basics for everyone else and what I've forgotten decades later. Ironically, when people asked to study with me, they didn't get why studying for an hour each the 3-4 nights preceding an exam was crushing their cramming the single night before, so they would get frustrated with me and leave. Or I was doing spaced repetition before that was a thing. Which is to say motivated sorts can have trouble finding peers willing to stay focused.
- metagame 5y agoSpaced repetition has been a thing for a really long time. Were you in college +/-1900? Depending on where the line is drawn for spaced repetition, it could be claimed to have been discovered initially from roughly 1885 to 1932.
- varelse 5y ago1980s, and I make no claim to having invented it - just that it was what I was doing, and that it worked but others hated it when they tried it out. However, I did not hear the term spaced repetition until around 2000 or so and I realized it was very similar to what I used to do back in college.