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I've big big fan of open university type courses for a while but generally they've been lacking on thing or the other. For example, MIT's Open University has a lot of the materials, but many lack the lectures (I haven't been back in ages so maybe this has been fixed recently).

When I was an employee at Microsoft, we used to get a bunch of Stanford classes on our campus TV network. Since I worked in TV, I had my TV port activated in my office. When I figured this out, I hooked up a feed to my media center PC with dual tuners and an old VCR we had lying around the office to record things. Lo and behold, I got a lot of great recorded lectures, but no course materials. Now, I see that that Stanford was reading my mind all along and they have released annotated video in a great variety of formats as well as lecture notes, assignments, and just about everything you need for self study. So far it's 6 courses, but they all seem to have all of the requisite materials available. I hope they take this slow and make sure that each course is complete as they add new ones.

Stanford School of Engineering

DVD Film School � TWO A DAY

2 a day gives you a little help on getting a film school education via Netflix. Glad I won't have to drop loads of cash on Berets and shaky, handheld camera people.

Somehow, I seemingly get roped into taking classes for one reason or another. This quarter, I'm going whole hog with 4 classes. A hearty welcome to those of you heading over from the Foothill Online course website.

What am I up to? Well, here we go:

1. Sociology - I'm taking an intro class to this topic because I've never taken this subject and figure what the heck
2. Anthropology - Ditto
3. Gym - so I can get some exercise
4. Tennis - Ditto

The first two are online classes and they're not just to indulge my curiosity. You see, if I'm enrolled in some sort of certificate program at least part time, then boom, Hongyun gets a little more cash from Berkeley. We figure, that at least I'll learn stuff and my classes and textbooks are basically free. Also, I think my curiosity in how technology directly affects individuals, families, and communities is more than just a passing one. I tend to gravitate towards to reading about studies for these sorts of things when I'm blog surfing. Anyway, it's a win-win except for my free-time where it is definitely has a not-so-good effect. Oh well...it's only three months right? What could possibly go wrong?

Aside from today's insane Apple announcement, I have been pretty much holed up and cut off from the world boning up on my high school level math. I figured out that the GMAT really doesn't require much more than this (aside from good verbal skills as well) which lead me to the realization that we should be pushing kids who just completed their first or second year of college to take the GMAT and GRE at that time since this stuff will be fresh in their minds.

Anyway, I vowed never to be rusty again snce there is a growing host of free top shelf educational materials online for free.

I would imagine that in a few years, we'll see a growing number of ultra-genius kids who push their educaiton to the limit with these free resources and earn several degrees by the time they're my age.

I've been looking for puzzles to exercise my brain....this one is a doosy: Matrix-Flip IQ Test.

I got a 134 out of 180 (sigh...no nobel prize for me).