Mine wasn’t in terms of knowledge because it was all just a big joke: most teachers didn’t really read our essays and graded them using the “throw them on the s

Mine wasn’t in terms of knowledge because it was all just a big joke: most teachers didn’t really read our essays and graded them using the “throw them on the stairs” technique. The knowledge imparted could be gotten in 1/2 or 1/3 of the time if a student was really interested in it and cared to look it up for themselves. My year abroad was great on a personal level, but an even bigger joke on academic level: courses were ridiculously easy to pass and I got credits for courses like “American movies retrospective” where we basically watched classic American movies in class, or for taking a few French classes when my home university’s teaching language was French. I was studying for a bachelor in business administration. On a bureaucratic level however, it’s been very useful: I was able to get naturalized on the basis of having studied for a degree in that country, and in the country I live in now life is much easier administratively if you have a university degree. But for the above, any bachelor would do. Of my whole bachelor program, I can maybe think of 4–5 actually useful pieces of information I learnt and remember. The rest was a waste of time, trying to figure out how to get a pass grade despite the terrible instructor. The money I earned and career I built had nothing to do with my degree from day 1 after graduation. Luckily public university was cheap and I didn’t incur any debt, only opportunity cost.