Yeah, that was a part of it. You can likely go to your local university and just attend lectures for free. I never had my ID checked or anything like that when I was attending school. It was suggested that it might happen when a class was full to the point where people were standing, but even in those cases it never ended up happening. So you could attend all the classes of a master's program without paying a dime. Even in small classes, a lot of profs either won't care or will even be happy to have others attend as long as they aren't causing disruptions or taking up too much time with questions.