Self Learning with Less Time and Money - MIT Challenge

Scott H Young has recently completed an interesting learning experiment where he took online MIT classes towards a computer science degree. For just $2,000 he received the education from MIT using online resources in one year!

Watch his TEDx talk part-way through the MIT experiment. Since the talk he has finished his goal of completing the MIT degree program in 1 year.

Scott is a speed-reading, vegetarian, holistic learning, productivity hacking recent university graduate. And, for the last five years he's been experimenting to find out how to get more from life. His current project is to learn MIT's 4-year curriculum for computer science in 12 months, without taking any classes.

While he missed out on the traditional college experience of networking, he saved hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach himself. He called it the education "a la carte."

Checkout his updated blog on what changes he would make if he were to try it again.