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Coursera: 30+ Coursera classes and a Google Internship
Feynman Liang is one of Coursera’s ‘top 50’ students by number of courses he has completed. To date, Feynman has taken 34 courses! We have asked him to share tips for the Coursera community on how to tackle taking multiple courses on Coursera At first, I was skeptical about taking classes online. Since I was already enrolled in a 5-year bachelor’s program between Amherst College and Dartmouth College, what reason was there for sacrificing my already scarce time to take classes online? With hesitation and the intention of dropping out when the class got hard, roughly a year and a half ago I enrolled in my first course on Coursera: “Machine Learning” with Professor Andrew Ng. What. A. Life-changer. As I worked through the course, I noticed overlap between Coursera’s lectures and my actual college classes. Pretty soon, I was walking into class only to find myself reviewing material already covered on Coursera. Likewise, often the quizzes and pr…