I am a firm believer in education. I am one of those geeks that thinks that knowledge is power and everyone that wants a college education should be able to get one. That's not always the case. With the cost of a college education floating between $10,000 and $150,000 for an undergraduate degree it is cost prohibitive. Personally, I will have to live to approximately 438 years old to pay off my loans for my undergraduate and graduate degrees. I would have been a professional student if I didn't have that pesky need to eat. So, I thought I'd check out some online classes to keep my brain occupied. What I found actually astounded me. There are free colleges, free online courses, free tuition, and some of them are at Ivy League schools. Totally blown away is an understatement.

I won't go into a big huge diatribe (see, huge vocabulary, my education paid off) this time. I will simply give you some links to the colleges, maybe a brief overview, etc.

University of Washington offers courses in American History, Greek Mythology and many more.

Covenant Seminary offers a free course and materials on theology.

Carnegie Mellon University has a wide array of available free courses. You can sign up for Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, French, Reasoning, Physics and others.

Whatcom Community College has a huge selection of free online math courses. Check it out!

Penn State University offers courses in Hungarian and Swedish.

Tuft's University offers open courses on dentistry, medicine, nutrition and many others.

Yale is offering free courses in physics, the Old Testament, and more.

I also found this Online Portal that lists out all colleges that offer free courses, syllabi, materials, etc.

It's important to know that most of these are not for any type of accepted credits. However, it's never a bad thing to learn and enrich yourself. Instead of doing a crossword puzzle a day, I think I'll sign up for a French class. So, until next time, adieu, and Happy Saving!