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Be careful about trying to recreate campus experience with YouTube videos at home. If a lecture is basic and you could indeed replace it with a quick video, look for better, more challenging or unique lectures/degrees/curricula. The whole adage of if you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong wrong room.

You’ll quickly reach a point where YouTube and Google won’t easily do, and only genuine and deep work will. That’s when rewarding, lasting impressions will happen (which superficial topics like HTML or the latest JS framework aren’t!). It shouldn’t be like just another frontend boot camp, just longer. Challenge yourself and reap the benefits forever. That and campus life in general of course…

[willeum]

I'm also experiencing OP's problem.

> If a lecture is basic and you could indeed replace it with a quick video, look for better, more challenging or unique lectures/degrees/curricula.

This has for years been a point of frustration for me.

Do you have any suggestions on how to get into more challenging lectures when the previous ones are prerequisites, and cannot be tested out of?

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> Do you have any suggestions on how to get into more challenging lectures when the previous ones are prerequisites, and cannot be tested out of?

Not much you can do. However, even university administration is just people, at the end of the day. It's surprising how much can be achieved and how many rules can be bent favourably if one simply asks nicely, or has the right connections. That said, you'll need some proof that you're capable of skipping classes. "I find it easy" wouldn't do.