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Re:Ask HN: Is online self-education useful or just delusion? by znpy on Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:22AM (#16591366)
> The way you do it is you go through a full 4-year program on MIT's OCW. You do the same assignments and write the same tests actual students did a decade ago. Then you take a GRE subjects test.

Well surely you can do everything in your free time, but MIT is still not going to give you a degree of any kind for doing a full 4-year program on MIT OCW.

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Re:Ask HN: Is online self-education useful or just delusion? by whatyoucantsay on Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:37PM (#16596721)
Yes. This is exactly why it's important to do a rigourous exam such as a GRE subject test or a CFA.
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