During my undergraduate course at Oxford, I worked very hard on a broad range of, well, basically, Chemistry. After all, it was what I had applied to study.
The thing is that the syllabus is tight and unyielding and almost all of the course is filled with core material -- you have to wait until the penultimate term before your final exams before you get any choice in what you study. As a result I've become very good at working in nine week sprints (the length of our terms) on a ton of work (the only amount the tutors know) without having to decide for myself what I want to follow.
Until this year, I was worried that I had lost the joy and love of learning that had propelled me through school, but then two things happened. Firstly I found the workload was lower this year and that has left me more time to pursue my own interests. Secondly, I discovered Coursera.
While looking for a good introduction to algorithms I found this website and it instantly captured my imagination. There are hundreds of courses in a wide range of subjects and you get to choose whichever ones you like!
The teaching is done through a mixture of bite-size video lectures, often with interactive quiz questions to make sure you're not falling asleep in class. Other assessments are done by a dubious system of peer-evaluation or, as appropriate, auto-graders.
The best thing is that it doesn't matter what you pick or whether you drop out after a week after deciding it's not for you. I've spent the last five weeks keeping up with a set of lectures on the Beethoven Piano Sonatas. It's been four years since I've studied music in-depth and it's amazing how the enjoyment has come rushing back.
I don't want to stop learning once I leave university, and I think this is an excellent way to keep going.
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