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> he completed all 33 courses (...) in less than one year.

> That works out to around 1 course every 1.5 weeks

WTF? What kind of university imposes that you take only one course at any given time? It's not just linkbait, it starts from a wrong assumption. When you take many related courses simultaneously, you see the pieces meshing together and that helps learning. That's different from taking them in a serial manner.

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"you see the pieces meshing together"

...or not. Depends on many things, among which the teachers are very important. If your lecturer thinks that his class is the most important and the rest of your courses are trash then you won't see "pieces meshing together". Been there, done that.

Cooper Union or somewhere does that, several short courses one or two at a time.

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