LASSIE has five components: only one of them is ACADEMIC.
Language
Social Skills
Inheritance
Experience
... and you can bring with you "extra" if you read a lot. Or if you listen to key lectures. This page gives you links to youtube videos that might help and lists of books that you can look up on wikipedia to get the "general idea."
Dan Pink Drive (visit his book to learn about 15 books that will help you) Malcolm Gladwell Outliers Blink Tipping Point Dog Thomas Friedman The World is Flat (3.0 edition) especially pages 309-12 The Knowable Future by Jack Latona The Teacher as Coach (by Alison Gopnik) Speech by Steve Jobs | BLogs and websites to prepare you for university Videos You can download the AUDIO TRACK by using Zamzar.com Then you can listen to these tracks without taking time from other computer tasks. Drive by Dan Pink 6.9 million view on 29 Oct 2011 Schools by Ken Robinson Thomas Friedman Freakonomics |