Extra-Curricular Resources for Students?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday September 2, 2003 @11:50AM from the going-that-extra-mile dept.

rende asks: "With school soon starting or having already started for many, this seems like a timely question. The MIT OpenCourseWare project is looking like a great resource for additional information to supplement my own coursework this year. I was very delighted to find this information freely available online, and wish I would have known about it previously. I would like to ask Slashdot: Are there any other resources, offered by other schools or independent sites, that offer such a robust selection of information that would fit in nicely, with the standard classes of a science related major?"

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Open your mind by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-02 15:34 · Score: 1, Insightful

As a 20 IT veteran, I am always amazed at how few job candidates do nothing else but course work. I am 100% self taught and easily 95% more knowledgeable than anyone out of school. I spent my teen years doing instead of reading and homework. College and degrees have there palce but they are ONLY a starting point. At home I had a computer and pounded on it 18 hours a day. I did, I learned, I opened my mind. Get the degree but for god's sake apply yourself like crazy.