Walmart University

I'm in my car at the Walmart parking lot, stealing free WiFi in order to steal a free MIT education.

Teaching 101 is getting your enthusiasm across and this professor does a great job. Allan Adams, 804 quantum mechanics.

I'm out of school and finally starting to learn again. Watched two lectures tonight while having canned dinner with my cardboard box TV tray. Last time I was able to do an MIT OCW series was in depression after graduating high school. I watched Walter Lewin's 801, 802, and 803 sequence. Its fitting to resume with 804. 

This is the 2013 version, which was not available in 2007. This time around, I already know most of the material but I'm trying to explain the stuff in learned before from the perspective of field theory that I'm attempting to self study. And its a nice bridge from the past to the present.

I love being able to back-to-back view the video lectures. Its so frustrating and painful holding onto an unresolved concept for a week, having to arbitrarily wait between lectures in real life, when I need to move forward to the next topic.

The same way reading requires a minimum speed to achieve understanding, so too does learning. A staggered and intermittent pace disrupts the natural progression of thought and understanding. A bicycle can only go so slowly before it topples. So does my brain.

I have to fight against the slow broken pace of lecture when I attend university or else my intellect bleeds out and dies.