Free MIT and Berklee Goodness From the Internet

If you've ever felt bitter about what a large chunk of media attention the Boston area's institutions of higher learning get, and wondered why in hell you should give a damn about mighty institutions that don't care for you, Bostonist has a little bit of good news. We just learned from the cool nerds at Lifehacker that there is a wide array of MIT courses available for free over ye olde internette, via a set-up called OpenCourseWare. So now you can actually partake of some of that book learnin' that seems to cause so many heavily backpacked youngsters to wander aimlessly into traffic on Mass. Ave. And if you're more interested in the aimless, heavily tattooed youngsters wandering into a different section of Mass. Ave., Berklee, too, offers lots of free music lessons through its Berklee Shares program. If only Harvard would get on board with this program, more people might actually find Bostonist's incessant Larry Summers coverage a little more relevant.

MIT - now available over the internet!