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Academic Earth has consolidated most of the prestigious colleges' video lectures onto one site.
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Berkeley Columbia Harvard Khan Academy Maryland Michigan MIT Norwich NYU Princeton Stanford UCLA UNSW USC Yale
Things to check out:
Khan Academy
Academic Earth (The courses here are pretty heavy though)
And finally, your local thrift store. They generally have a few used textbooks and if you're lucky, you'll find a physics one for cheap.
You'll do fine. I just finished my 1st year majoring in Physics and I'm 28. I failed & repeated every math class there was in high school because I didn't take it seriously and honestly didn't like math then.
Something changed in me, and I'm glad it happened later instead of never. You're very lucky to want to go into Physics at age 11.
Here are a few great websites to help you with both physics & math in case your unfamililar with them:
You can poke around those sites and find hundreds of hours of lectures dealing in Physics and Mathematics. Start wherever you're comfortable at and keep going. If you do well in school and spend your summers getting ahead by studying calculus and physics you'll be prepared.
Don't get discouraged at the immensity of what there is to learn. You'll never learn it all, no one human being possibly could. Instead look at it as a positive - you'll spend the rest of your life learning.
I pretty much believe the same as lamansteve, you'll disappear and never live again. I believe that one part of the explaination of why religions get such a impact is that the most of them offer a "solution" to this although it can be argued that immortality is bad. I'm trying to understand this that my time is limited so I'll be more present in the moment and realize objects true value. Strongly recommend this course: http://www.academicearth.org/courses/death
I know how you feel, I've been there, hold tight, it gets better, once out of high-school, everything changes.
http://www.academicearth.org/courses/introduction-to-astrophysics/ One of my favorites when I was in high-school
This is probably relevant (with a more quantitative approach than the article), especially to everyone who's saying that renting is bullshit: http://www.academicearth.org/lectures/renting-vs-buying-a-home/
I would suggest reading some philosophy books. Kant, Nietzsche, Aristotle, it doesn't really matter. They'll show you examples of what good quality thinking is, and you can learn from that. Also, it's not a book, but this lecture series is really eye-opening in terms of ways of thinking of the world, which, as a consequence will make you a better thinker :)
Here's a short piece of ancient philosophy to read: http://classics.mit.edu/Epicurus/menoec.html
It's Epicurus' "Letter to Menoeceus" that discusses a fear of death.
Also, Shelly Kagan's series on Death and Dying is great. Here's a link the video lecture on a fear of death: http://www.academicearth.org/lectures/fear-of-death
The whole series is worth watching though:
Hi, I'm not an Ivy League student but as a state university student that watched these (all lectures from Ivy League schools) I can tell you that there are a lot of apparent differences in the amount and quality of resources available to students. I was a physics student that attended community college and then state university.
The material covered in my classes was exactly the same as what was covered in the corresponding videos. I've looked at some of the Ivy League sample exams and they seemed like they were on the same level of difficulty that I would have encountered at my school. However, at the non-Ivy League schools I've been to, we didn't have several graduate students at our disposal to go to for help when we were struggling with homework. The Ivy League students usually seemed to have extra workshops (led by grad students or instructors) available to them for working through problems as a group. They had (as was mentioned in their videos) between 10-15 grad students assigned as help to a class of about 100 undergrad students. For me, there was generally an office hour or two per week that the instructor was available to answer questions (for the whole class) and then we fended for ourselves beyond that.
My instructors were not as eloquent and well-spoken as the lecturers on this site but they knew their stuff and we covered the same material in a semester that they do.
From what I can see, they just seemed to have more resources for help (their entire lectures are available online to rewatch whenever they want). I'm so glad I had access to them too because they were very helpful when I was taking those classes.
You may actually have to work harder and be more responsible at a non-Ivy League university as your path to success is not as easy. That's my opinion
If you're bootstrapping, you absolutely can define success as however you want. His stat is specific to venture-backed companies. From the first sentence in the article:
> While statistics are weak on startup success rates, the worst one I’ve seen suggests that 2 in 1000 venture backed startups will ever achieve $100-million or more in valuation.
Remember that VC investors look for a 10-12x return in 5 years. According to Steve Jurveston of DFJ, their average investment is $2-3 million in the first round with an expectation of putting in another $4-$9 million in later rounds. So for a VC to see a startup as successful, it's gotta hit somewhere around that $100 million mark.
That's not the video. That is about the rise of housing prices/cause of sub-prime lending. This is it.
Sorry for not exactly answering your question, but why won't you read a book? Learn something?
When I had overtime laden graveyard shifts I spent most of my time at Academic earth. I took three biology classes, two chemistry classes, an anatomy class, a political science class, portions of economics classes and so on. I kept notebooks where I'd actually summarize the videos and attempted to do some of the homework. It was really fun and mind broadening.
Why not choose some aspect of anthropology both you and your teacher consider relevant, then select one of Yale philosopher Shelly Kagan's topics from his lectures on death and base your paper on Kagan's observations as they may or may not apply to the anthropological interests you and your prof share?
Specifically about Darwin, I'd recommend the whole video collection from the 2009 BBC Darwin Season, including, but not limited to: Life, Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, What Darwin Didn't Know, Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden, Darwin's Struggle: The Evolution of the Origin of Species.
I also recommend Michael Sandel's Harvard lectures on Justice, here, and Peter Millican's Oxford lectures on Philosophy, here
There was an IAmA not too long ago that has a few suggestions
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/vj4tq/iama_17yearold_internet_marketer_that_makes_20000/
and there are also online courses from Academic Earth
This is not a book so downvote at will BUT: have you considered watching a lecture series on Academic Earth? There are some great open courses on the fundamentals of physics from tier-1 schools like Yale and MIT. http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/science/category/Physics
I love Nietzsche. I really hope this was just a cry for help from the OP and he's still around to read this today, tomorrow, the next 40 years. Anyways, logically it would be absurd to kill oneself, considering no matter how bad life gets there is always a chance it can improve. Yale lecture on death, suicide
and not necessarily documentaries but still some very interesting lectures:
This course is an excellent introduction to political philosophy. I listened to the whole thing in a little more than a week. You can also download it on Itunes
Academic Earth offers a Yale course taught by David Blight. Please see Civil War and Reconstruction for the course content.
Prof. Blight's bio:
"David W. Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (for which he received the Bancroft, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass prizes), and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War. He is also the co-author of the bestselling American history textbook, A People and a Nation."
Exactly.
"That's it" is a simple explanation that works for rats and cockroaches and palm trees, etc.
"Go on to an afterlife" is bizarre, absurd, has no evidence whatsoever to support it, let alone a coherent explanation of what an "afterlife" would even mean. Reincarnation as a cockroach or dinosaur or what? An angel with a harp on a cloud with wings and no musical training and nowhere to use the wings to fly to? Forever?
Here is an interesting course from Yale University philosopher Shelly Kagan on the topic of death. He introduces the idea of thinking about death through a series of lectures from a series of different perspectives, from the ancient Greeks up to modern day thinkers.
I found his explorations on what eternal life might actually mean especially interesting.
I agree religions, history and psychology are interesting. And many points you raise are valid.
> Man, I sometimes wish
There are also some great university courses online
http://www.academicearth.org/courses/new-testament-history-and-literature
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Bible does tell about hell in ways that do not make it sound figurative. For example the maggots sound quite literal.
Academic Earth encompasses many subjects and top universities, but I can only speak for the history lectures. I find them very useful on getting background info and directing me to new sources. The series on Civil Rights Movement by Clayborne Carson is my favourite but I've also found the Merriman ones to be great, a bit too brief though sometimes.
These may help, all of them are good, but more specific to your problem, have a look at The Nature of Death (cont.); Believing You Will Die, Fear of Death, How to Live Given the Certainty of Death
I don't know if it helps, but if your church makes you feel that way, go to another, they don't have to know your past and they have no right to judge you; only God can see our true hearts. I find church really calming and peaceful, usually somewhere I feel safe.
With the wanting to walk in front of cars; I've had that and wanting to jump in front of passing trains on a platform but again, the mess and trauma this would cause to others is cruel and that's what's mostly stopped me. That and putting people in my life who depend on me. I make myself feel wanted, even if I doubt it sometimes. I make many friends and I try to be helpful and I am part of many groups and I now have a boyfriend who knows me and supports me when I'm sad.
With the cutting, try to find someone who you can be accountable to, my boyfriend has been my rock even when long distance, just the thought of having to tell him if I had succumbed to cutting makes me not want to cut. I understand the temptation of cutting; many times walking to the knife draw of the knife I've visualized and thought ahead to the raised scar I'd get and the reassurance I'd feel from it and thinking of how I'd cut, the blood etc. The best way to get away from this later on for me was my boyfriend's help. But before him was distraction; food, a TV series, exercise, long walks in the dark (don't do this in a rough area), making stuff; Distraction with work is also good and practical.
One of my best friends has a rough background, but that has just made her stronger, she basically has been cut off from her parents now and she has made her way by making good friends and working hard in the subject she wishes to follow.
What's the point of suicide? You don't know what happens next, no one does. Wait it out, why not?
I found this interesting, sorry it's long:
Astronomy clubs, check. Textbooks, check. Another great resource for actual scientific learning about astronomy and cosmology are the free lectures online: Academic Earth will allow you to take a full course from an excellent professor. Khan Academy has some great material as well.
These are online University courses I learned from: http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/programming
I learned Java from the Stanford intro course. For more advanced programming, here are courses from UC Berkeley: http://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley
just remembered the NoExcuseList, Academic Earth, and KhanAcademy. They're all great sites to learn for free.
>You’ve chose a side on one of the most intensely debated subject of Christianity and judaism. Using this as a statement of fact is fallacious.
Really? Show me an example of where it's prophesied that the Messiah will be crucified, will be a man-God, will be resurrected and change the very foundations of monotheistic Judaism.
>The interpretation of this passage is that Jesus tells the people that he is not teaching something new. He is not here to bring a new religion but to fulfill the law or the Old Testament. The New Testament is God’s law.
Well since you're saying it, it must be true, never mind that half the books of the NT teach things Jesus' didn't even know about. Oh right, you have to be a Christian in order to believe in divine inspiration and know that Gods word = Jesus word = Pauls words, man gotta love that circular logic.
>I don’t usually like to use Wikipedia links but it cites sources and is entirely contrary to everything you’ve said. So I won’t waste time writing it out.
You forgot the main one, the three in one god, Osiris Isis and Horus, and 25th of December is the Winter solstice, still a pagan influence.
>http://www.academicearth.org/speakers/dale-b-martin is a lecture series by Dale B. Martin on Early Christianity and seems to disagree with much of what you’ve said. I watched the whole series last year and it’s quite good. (http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152 his qualifications.)
What exactly did I say does it disagree with? Please make a case for you argument that Christianity was in fact preached by Jesus instead of making blanket rebuttals.
Depending on time and interest (not a pun)
http://www.academicearth.org/courses/financial-theory
lectures 16, 17, and 18 very informative on the topic
Also while that is interesting I found the discussion in the book on the creation of synthetic CDO and CDS more interesting. The idea that since there was a finite number of borrowers eventually the market saturated. So instead of saying, hey that's enough, we create synthetic products tied to the original. Now instead of having one pool of toxic assets awe could have many, over and over. Not only that but since the payments on CDS mimic those of mortgage payers, you could effectively find someone who wanted CDS, and someone who wanted a CDO and match them and have the contracts be a derivative of any pool you wanted.
Here is an introductory course to understanding infants. The idea of Tabula Rasa is really outdated. Babies are actually far more intelligent than we used to think.
http://www.academicearth.org/lectures/development-of-thought
you can check out r/java or r/programming for some help as well. Kahn academy has recently posted some programming related tutorials but they are based on python.
also, I'll leave this gem right here... just for you
If you're looking for a specific university, I suggest looking elsewhere or in a specific sub-reddit. Not all university courses are the same.
That said, This site is good though I don't know if it has the art lectures you're looking for.
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
This is a great site that I use to study math when the textbook and the professor isn't being clear. It's very explanatory, lots of examples, and practically perfect.
http://www.academicearth.org/courses/trigonometry
This is a great site also to access a bunch of other subjects, and I see on the website that they pull videos from Khan Academy.
Youtube.
Seriously. There are thousands of youtube videos where you or your friend can learn trigonometry (and pretty much anything else).