How MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx helped Air Force veteran soar

From the time she was little, MIT AeroAstro PhD student Andrea Henshall has been reaching for the stars. A retired Major in the U.S. Air Force, Andrea has used MIT's free open learning resources, OpenCourseWare (OCW) and MITx, throughout her career to excel throughout her academic studies.

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[mcteeny]

Opening the path so others will continue the path. ❤

[temitopeakinpelu]

You are an inspiration. I take courses at MIT OCW and this video serves to sustain the fire in my belly… that I should keep persevering

[onlinebozor_]

I want to study MIT and I will. Now I'm dreaming about this and I'm working on myself. Just wait for me MIT

[emreergene]

Very inspiring! What you guys are doing maybe does not seem like a big deal but you guys are one of the role models in education and making your sources open source creates the possibility that everyone can learn. That should be the goal of any of us, our age, gender or race does not mean we can’t learn or we can’t share. We are humans and to be able to show efficient progress or maybe go beyond our planet will be done by this kind of act. Again thanks for your effort in all of this, really appreciated.

[Sunshinerainglow]

Beautiful where passion gets a person no matter their skill set or iq level…if your passionate and motivated you will not only succeed because you become obsessed with your craft especially if your being paid a good amount for it. Shss passionate, wonderful to see.

[allpriority]

It really help me alot
Thank you so much for creating these amazing classes

[spencjon]

I used MIT opencoursweare instead of half my CS course lectures because they were better. Highly recommend the algorithms course.

[TheBasicStuff]

This video speaks volumes. MIT OpenCourseWare has indeed made my university education so much brighter from Professor John Gruber to Professor Andrew Lo who have set the bar so damn high as to what a Professor is. Thanks MIT, not a student but always appreciating the content.

[allenculbertson]

God bless you Andrea and thank you for your service 🙏

[j.w.]

I'm just gonna have another beer.

[bintwaibuhatwibu]

Thanks that's great I wish to complete my computer science lectures and became great one thanks MIT

[AlexNH]

That’s smart there’s not way I could do that. To many drugs and beer and mental health

[chandrasekharChebiyyam]

I love what MIT OCW is up to! Very inspiring story :')

[stevet]

Fantastic. I have a degree in chemistry. Later in career as a chemist, I decided to teach high school. My first school assigned both chemistry and physics to me. Through MIT OpenCourseWare, I found Dr. Walter Lewin and basically listened to all his lecture and watched his demos and labs. Because of that, I was totally prepared to teach physics and even incorporated one of his labs in my classes. Best to you.

[hasanwasam]

If I stay still breathing in the next year, I will study phsics with MIT OPEN COURSE WARE, and thank you because made this for free, from IRAQ

[whatsappme]

God bless Mrs Theresa for helping me making up to $7900 weekly trading binary/crypto currency’s with her strategic principles. God bless you for your Kindness

[mishrr]

Thank you MIT. Love for Quantum Physics 🚀

[nicolej]

Yup! That’s how I supplement my education.