U-Tube: Now Everyone Can Listen To Your Senile Lit Professor

by Dan Haley | April 2, 2009 at 6:06 pm

Academic Earth is making Ivy lectures available to anyone with an internet connection. A Hulu for nerds, AE aggregates lecture videos posted by schools like Yale, MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, and even Harvard Med school. This is devaluing your exclusive education, you say? Let’s be honest, you sleep through a lot of your classes anyway. And hey, information should be free, blah, blah, blah, democracy.

Here’s Yale Philosophy’s Shelly Kagan teaching “Life and Death”–actually it’s mostly just Death:

This is great news for everyone rejected by the Ivies this year. You can get that quality education after all! And according to Forbes, you’d be happier at NYU anyway (Editors note: this is quite possibly true). After the jump, more lectures!

For those English majors out there who’ve been scratching their heads about all this bailout business, Princeton’s got you sorted. Too bad understanding the crisis won’t get you a job…

At Harvard, the CS50 kids actually get together to make CS50 clothing that looks like the Harvard Athletic Department sweats. Here’s the knowledge, but you’ll need WalMart and paint pens for a hoodie.

Dear Yale. Thanks for the Bible study. Next time I’ll just go to church, though, because at least they give me free wine and crackers. Love, Dan.

“When I was selected for the Russian… er… the US Basketball Team.” Actually, it’s cool because Sen. Bradley was the captain and won a big smelly gold medal for Uncle Sam. He is not, nor has he ever been, a Princeton professor, however.

And now for the climax. If only more professors would wear leather blazers, front-tucked shirts, and look like Stellan Skarsgård after a night in Vegas.

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5 Responses to “U-Tube: Now Everyone Can Listen To Your Senile Lit Professor”

  1. D'09 Says:
    April 2nd, 2009 at 9:56 pm

    There’s also http://www.youtube.com/edu

  2. LSUgrad Says:
    April 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    You lost me at U-Tube.

  3. y 10 Says:
    April 6th, 2009 at 9:34 am

    Paul Bloom is the freakin man.

  4. anon Says:
    April 8th, 2009 at 1:10 am

    nice to see that philosophy is also boring at Yale.

  5. wanker Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    Shelly Kagan is a wanker. The guy loves himself.

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