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It's more that there is too much hand holding and babying of american students. European students (at the good universities) are expected to thoroughly and inde
by marshallp 17y ago
It's more that there is too much hand holding and babying of american students. European students (at the good universities) are expected to thoroughly and independently study for exams that will come two or more years later. American students are driven by weekly assignments and all sorts of midterms and quizzes. When it comes time to do independent research, the american student is thoroughly unprepared compared to the european.
- jessriedel 17y agoIn my experience (physics graduate student), American students and European students do not differ significantly based on work ethic, planning, or organization. Certainly, the variance within each group in those categories is much larger than the difference between those groups. The significant difference was that Europeans had completed more math and physics course before they had to choose an advisor and commit to a research topic.