> using that power well N=1, etc. My initial experience was at the University of Pretoria. It was absolutely a business. My course had an unresolvable schedul

> using that power well N=1, etc. My initial experience was at the University of Pretoria. It was absolutely a business. My course had an unresolvable schedule conflict: a challenging class with a trivial one. The latter had an attendance mark (60%, so automatic failure), we needed the tutorage for the former. When we approached the lecturer, she said: "tough luck, fail it and take it next year." We contacted the Dean, and he supported her view. Accounting wasn't interested that we would be failing a subject for reasons beyond our control. I decided I was wasting my money and that's why I am at another university a decade later. You pay a flat fee for each semester, including all required reading and course content - for as many courses as you can manage (which you do serially, so you won't over- or under-commit). You are there to prove what you know, so you can skip straight to examinations. I haven't yet started, so I have an incomplete opinion. Still, it's a refreshing change from the wanton exploitation of dreams that I experienced in South Africa. It really depends on where you go.