I love MIT. If MIT was a woman and I wasn’t married, and maybe if it had a couple of drinks and just got dumped and was feeling really, really desperate, I’d totally hit that.

Nerd love aside, they have this site called MIT OpenCourseWare where they give the world free access to course materials from “more than 1800 courses spanning MIT’s entire curriculum.” Very cool. They also have an RSS feed so you can receive updates as they add additional classes to the catalog, classes like “21M.775 Hip Hop.”

This class explores the political and aesthetic foundations of hip hop. Students trace the musical, corporeal, visual, spoken word, and literary manifestations of hip hop over its 30 year presence in the American cultural imagery. Students also investigate specific black cultural practices that have given rise to its various idioms. Students create material culture related to each thematic section of the course. Scheduled work in performance studio helps students understand how hip hop is created and assessed.

I’m totally signing up. Cuz that’s how I roll.