As I mentioned here, I am engaged in self-study to become a software engineer. I now have a (tentative) 3 year (roughly 2^10 hour) plan for learning the relavent skills. You can take a look at what I'm doing and track my progress here.

Currently, it includes learning touch-typing, math, logic, computer science, Java, C, Ruby, Haskell, SQL, HTML/CSS, Unix, and getting a degree in computer science with a concentration in software engineering.

The idea is to read and do all the exercises in the texts listed under each goal and move onto small personal and open source projects for the remainder of the time.

I'm open to and would appreciate constructive criticism of the plan, book suggestions, relevant anti-akrasia techniques, etc... Also, before I get any comments about the "slow" pace, keep in mind I own my own business, have an almost 1 year old son, and am going to school full-time.

I'm having the exact problem that you're describing. I want to study computer science in a university here in Greece but to do that I have to give exams in subjects that are irrelevant to a computer science curriculum (anatomy,biology etc.) because in High School I was in a "medical" department. So now because I don't want to spend a year of my life studying those courses I can't study computer science in a university and I became autodidact , which is very challenging so far...

Right now I'm reading this book : " The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decision" , so that I can get myself familiar with the biases that I unconsciously do.