Free Online Lectures/Resources

List of some of the free online lecture and/or resource sites:

• MIT OpenCourseware
• Webcast.Berkeley
• Carnegie Mellon OLI
• Open Yale Courses

Testing Out Of A Degree: TESC

I'm sure you've wondered about what the testing out of a degree part is. Well by using CLEP and DSST, you can take almost all the credits for a degree at Thomas Edison State College (TESC). By CLEP and DSST tests, you can get most of the credits for a Social Science, Business Administration, Psychology and a couple other degrees and get them online. Plus you can get the rest (except the capstone course) of the credits by TECEP tests for about the same amount as a CLEP or DSST test. If you do all of this and pick a degree that can be tested out of, the only actual class you'll have to take is the capstone course. All of the testing plus only paying for one course means a cheap but effective degree (and if you do the testing in a timely matter then also a quick one).

Physics Olympiad

Going to start studying for the Physics Olympiad "F=ma" qualifier test tomorrow, hopefully I'll get to the second round.

The Other Big Credit By Exam Option, the DSST and Good CLEP/DSST Resource

The next credit by exam program I'd like to mention is called DSST or DANTES. They were at first only availible to the military but as interest increased, they made it open to the public. Unlike CLEP, some of the DSST tests count for upper level credit. Click here to see a list of the exams they offer.

Now, for an amazing resource I found for studying for DSST and CLEP, it tells you what books to get (usually can get them for cheap, it doesn't ask for textbook, or at least not expensive ones) and tell you week-by-week how to prepare for the DSST/CLEP that you're going to take. Here's the link http://clepprep.tripod.com/cleplessonplans/id4.html

Anyways, that's all for this post, hope to see you again.

1st Self Study: Energy and Material Balances

Just ordered Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes: 2nd edition for this self-study. It only cost me $4.74 for the textbook on Half. Although old, I definitely am not buying newest edition because of the price tag plus there shouldn't be too much of a difference between the two despite the big gap time-wise between them. This book is a good book to start out chemical engineering. A lot of universities use the newest edition of it and rightly so since I've looked through the 3rd edition before and it's definitely a good textbook.

College Board Credit By Examination

Okay, first I'm going to introduce College Board's  two credit by examination options.

First is the one everyone knows, Advanced Placement exams. They are exams for high schoolers in which you normally taking a high school AP class then in May take the AP exams. What most of you probably don't know is that if you're in high school, you can self-study AP exams then, independependant of your school (or if you like you can do it through your school) register for the AP exam. By doing this, you can either do AP exams that your school doesn't offer the classes for or ones that you don't have time to fit into your high school schedule. Click here to see the list of AP courses.

Now for the lesser known one, that anyone can take. They are called CLEP exams which stands for College-Level Examination Program. Like AP exams, they are recomended for credit by ACE, the American Council on Education. You will have to check with the college of your choice about their policy on CLEP. Anyways, there are 33 different CLEP exams and they are usually considered lower level credits (which means they give credit for college Freshman or Sophmore level classes). Click here to see the different CLEP exams and check your university's policy on it by searching CLEP on their website.

Introduction

Hi everyone, my name is Tyler Pleasant. Let me give you the basics about me. I'm currently only a Junior in high school but (not even counting AP) I already have earned 18 college credits. 10 of those credits were only not only at a community college but were also free (not including the cost of one textbook). I earned these credits through something called dual enrollment (I will explain in a later post). Next semsester I'm taking 13 credit hours of classes through dual enrollment for no cost. My future asspirations are to got to MIT, get a BS in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering then go to University Of Michigan for a PhD in Chemical Engineering. After that, get a good job and continue with learning (both self-learning and for degrees).

Although my main interests are Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, I'm also interested in self-studying other subjects including Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Psychology, and Math.

Also I will keep an updated list of college classes I've taken, standardized tests, etc. on my About Me page