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Orientation: What Is Lifehacker U?

Grab your pen and paper and confirm your battery is chargedclass is in session!

You’ll start with nothing, again, although a basic understanding of web technologies will help you.

By the end of the course you’ll have designed a personal website, complete with a resume.

Most importantly, you’ll have all the tools it’s crucial that you keep practicing and keep developing.

Keep in mind the course is archived, and self-paced.

Even so, what is Ebola exactly, beyond a scary disease?

Where did it come from, and how does it spread?

You’ll also dive into the past, present, and the future of veterinary care.

You’ll study motor control, cognition, and nerve signaling, among other topics.

You’ll tackle topics like virtue and ethicswords everything thinks they understand, but likely don’t.

By the end of the course, you’ll realize the Magna Carta was more than just a contract.

The course follows an example murder case from discovery to investigation and through to identifying a potential suspect.

Topics range from science and technology to social science and humanities, and they’re all free.

Interested in a crash course in mechanical engineering?

The Saylor Foundation can help you with that.

Education-Portal.com has a listof universities offering free and for-credit online classes to students and the public at large.

The University of Redditis a crowd-built set of classes and seminars by Reddit users who have expertise to share.

Topics range from computer science and programming to paleontology, narrative poetry, and Latin.

), and do examinations and quizzes on your own time.

Send them in to us at[email protected]so we can include them in the next semester!

Title photo remixed from an original bymrdonduck.