Become a Yale Scholar —for Free!
We all have a few choice words to say about the cost of college tuition and the ridiculousness of spending tens of thousands of dollars for easy access to beer pong when we could have just put our money in Google stock instead and been rich by now. And the truth is, we were too busy huffing the intoxicating fumes of freedom back then to actually show up at class anyways, right? But now is the time to consider remedying some of the regretful gaps in our education. Why? Because now we can take classes, for FREE, at Yale University. What?!? Yale, you say? But, I don’t live anywhere near New Haven! Fear not — these classes have been videotaped and are available online through the Yale’s ‘Open Courses’ program, so you can still sleep late, have a margarita for breakfast and keep an eye on your Texas Hold Em game.
On a serious note, programs like these have the potential to revolutionize the world of higher education by giving everyone access to classes taught by the world’s foremost scholars, regardless of where they live or what they can afford. Cheers to that!
Here are some intriguing options:
Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics
Introduction to Psychology (I have it on good authority that this class is amazing)
Classes are offered in the following subjects: Astronomy, Biomedical Engineering, Classics, Economics, English, History, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Religious Studies.
Yeah for Game Theory…it makes me smile