Lectures To Go

Having a major allows you to focus your passion, and strengthen your expertise in a particular knowledge field. However, focusing all that attention in one place can lead you to neglect your lesser passions in other subjects. For example, has your talent in art taken a back seat to your science degree?

With a busy student schedule there's not always enough time to indulge your off-beat interests... until now. More and more universities across America are publishing audio lectures in podcast form - so you can listen in on a lecture about Picasso at the bus stop, at the gym, or on your way to chem lab. Why limit your learning to your class schedule, when podcasts are free - and recorded by top intellectuals in a diverse range of topics? All you need is an mp3 player and headphones to become a true renaissance student.

Colleges currently offering lectures by free audio download/ podcast include:

Stanford University

John Hopkins University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of California, Los Angeles

Yale University