Comment by dsiegel2275

It isn't supernatural, trust me. Very simply: I set a goal, understood what prerequisites I needed to fill, and just worked hard to get there. I put in about 5 - 10 hours a week in the first half of the year working through the OCW courses, then probably 10-15 hours a week during the CMU class. I work fulltime as a software engineer, so my 'class' time was usually a couple hours a night, after the wife and kids go to bed.