Anyone use online lectures(MIT, YALE, etc)?

[Adrenaline21]

Have any of you guys used lectures for physics or organic chemistry and found them helpful?

I never found them particularly useful, but I want to try and see since I always space out during in class lectures.

I am thinking about watching these over break, I have heard really good things about Lewin's Physics Series from MIT OCW.

Anything good for organic chemistry?

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[dextor2003]

Have any of you guys used lectures for physics or organic chemistry and found them helpful?

I never found them particularly useful, but I want to try and see since I always space out during in class lectures.

I am thinking about watching these over break, I have heard really good things about Lewin's Physics Series from MIT OCW.

Anything good for organic chemistry?

I can't tell you much Lewin's lectures helped me during MCAT prep. Love the guy.

Can't tell you anything about orgo though...I just stuck to my own lecture notes for it..Sorry =/

But if anything, you could just use Khan Academy for orgo and physics if you'd like. He's probably just the right amount of material you need to do well on the MCAT.

 

[chitown2011]

MIT doesn't actually have video lectures available for OChem, unfortunately. The physics ones were excellent, but the best way to learn physics is by doing problems. OCW does have some pretty good lectures for gen chem, but don't go into great depth.

My absolute favorite lectures are from Dr. Nowik, who teaches OChem at UC-Irvine, available here: http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2642/Chemistry-51A-Organic-Chemistry and on YouTube. This link will give you the first semester of ochem, but the second semester is available on YouTube if you search his name,

 

[ShenanigansMD]

I really found that these types of videos were basically the same as what my professors did, which was repeat formulas from the book. As said above, the best way to learn is to do problems on your own a bunch of times. It's all about repetition.

 

[Hemorrage]

Some of the MIT OCW stuff is good.. but contrary to what everyone else says i didn't find walter lewin all that amazing after the first few lectures. The only way to really get good at physics is to just do a ton of problems