If you didn't have parents who thought it would be cool to spend $40K a year on your education or if MIT sent you a skinny acceptance letter instead of the fat one, it doesn’t mean that you can’t still get some great EE education from some of the best professors out there. MIT has a number of freely available EE courses (and coursework covering a lot of other areas as well), which can be downloaded from the
MIT OpenCourseWare website. If you’re looking for an excellent introductory level course, you’ll probably want to look at
6.002 Circuits and Electronics. Make sure to download the course material as well (available from the side menu) to get the most from the lessons. Just quietly cringe to yourself and pretend the lecture notes aren’t
written in Comic Sans.