Now you too can become a UC Berkeley student without maintaining high grades, taking the SAT, or forking out thousands of dollars each semester, just like somebody I know did.

Myself.

Okay, all kidding aside, UC Berkeley has made over 300 hours of course and special event video available for anybody to see on YouTube. In the past, Berkeley has posted lectures and events via its webcast.berkeley.edu site, as well as through iTunes U.

Visit http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley to check out all the videos. While it may not mean that you can get a degree from UC Berkeley, you can see what it’s really like (See? people in Berkeley do more than protest ). I am, however, disappointed that not one lecture posted is an English course!

And might I suggest some?

• Crossing the Digital Divide: I’m a little biased because I used to work with these guys (hi Gabe and Ben!), but it’s a useful primer to computer basics.
• Lunchtime Poetry: There may not be any English courses posted, but here’s a little English major nerdery to hold you over.
• Physics 10:  Physics for future Presidents: did you sleep through Physics classes in college? If so, this may be worth a look; it’s a physics class geared toward non-science students.
• The Play: The ending of the 1982 Cal-Stanfurd* football game. “And the bears! The bears have won! The bears have won!”

  Enjoy!

  *"Stanfurd" is an alternate spelling for Stanford University, used by Cal students and alumni like myself.