Quote from: Ramona on January 29, 2016, 07:00:24 AM

Quote from: Flee on January 29, 2016, 06:51:50 AM

Quote from: Ramona on January 29, 2016, 06:48:04 AM

Quote from: Flee on January 29, 2016, 06:44:25 AM

Quote from: Ramona on January 29, 2016, 06:39:35 AM

I feel bad for anyone who feels the need to perform studies in supplement to demonstrations delivered in lecture halls.

It's not even funny how hard you would fail if you'd try to pull that over here.

You must have some really shitty instructors then.

My instructors are some of the best there are. I'm just at the part of my education where simply attending class is never enough and the professors stick to the necessities and most difficult portions in class.

Sounds like denial to me.

If they're so talented, how come they're not educating in a country with more prestigious institutions?

I might not pity you so much if you said those materials were for a research project, but seeing as they were just for a summerical exam, I'm inclined to say that your instructors are failing you.

It's kind of funny how little you know about this. My university as a whole was ranked among the top 50 institutions of higher education in the world, with my faculty of law being one of the 20 best on a global level, being partnered with Harvard and such. The list of my professors include world renowned academics such as the president of the European Commission, federal advisor on digital progress who worked together with the founders of Wikipedia and Google to establish their European privacy policies, the chairman of the European Court of Justice, Belgian prime minister, judge at the European Court of Human Rights, minister of justice and advisors to international organizations around the world (many of which based in the US). My copyright professor was specifically requested by the US government to help the 2013 overhaul of the American Copyright Act in order to implement a semi first-to-file system. Numerous of my professors hold chairs at Harvard, Yale, Oxford and many other prestigious universities all over the world.

Just because your education to this point is on par with what students here go through in high school does not mean that you have some sort of authority on this matter. I genuinely pity you in return if you think that simply attending lectures is the sole proper way of education and that a high page count is a sign of incompetence. Don't forget that I'm taking a specialised Master's which requires all of its applicants to have a Master's in law with at least a distinction. They don't try apply some common core logic and "leave no one behind". They try to weed out everyone but the most capable so that a degree like this actually means something and shows that the 15-20% of students who end up graduating actually have what it takes.

It's really quite disappointing that you can't see that and feel the need to put down others because of your own insecurities and laughably wrongful perceptions of superiority. A condescending attitude does not suit anyone well, especially when they have absolutely nothing to show for it. So unless you actually have a Master's in law from one of the top faculties in the world lying around, I really don't think you're in any position to judge what it takes to make it in this field and how high page counts somehow are the result of incompetence. Just because your material can easily be communicated and learned verbally due to its relatively low degree of complexity doesn't mean that the same goes for everything.

No need to be a dick when you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Just makes you look like an uninformed ass because of the broad assumptions you're making.

Quote from: Ramona on January 29, 2016, 07:00:24 AM

Quote from: Flee on January 29, 2016, 06:51:50 AM

Quote from: Ramona on January 29, 2016, 06:48:04 AM

Quote from: Flee on January 29, 2016, 06:44:25 AM

Quote from: Ramona on January 29, 2016, 06:39:35 AM

I feel bad for anyone who feels the need to perform studies in supplement to demonstrations delivered in lecture halls.

It's not even funny how hard you would fail if you'd try to pull that over here.

You must have some really shitty instructors then.

My instructors are some of the best there are. I'm just at the part of my education where simply attending class is never enough and the professors stick to the necessities and most difficult portions in class.

Sounds like denial to me.

If they're so talented, how come they're not educating in a country with more prestigious institutions?

I might not pity you so much if you said those materials were for a research project, but seeing as they were just for a summerical exam, I'm inclined to say that your instructors are failing you.

As an American student getting their Masters at a European university, I can assure you that the expectations for students at tertiary education institutions is quite higher than a lot of American universities. Outside of the very top universities in the U.S, there is a lot of hand holding, second chances and easy A's. That does not exist at my institution.

The students in my program are the top students from their previous universities, so to be exceptional out of a group of students who are already considered exceptional is quite a feat. Erasmus students are even held to lower standards because of the level of difficulty in the program. They are not used to having to study and keep on top of the materials. Nor are they used to the entire outcome of their grade dependent on one exam that tests them on everything covered throughout the semester.

It is very difficult to understand without experiencing it directly, but I can assure you that it is quite different and more difficult than the average American university. It has nothing to do with the competence of the professors, but rather that self-study and making connections in the material is expected of the students. The complexity of the material makes it impossible to cover everything class, so students are expected to be responsible and diligent. If they are not, then they really do not deserve a degree.

Quote from: Ramona on January 29, 2016, 07:53:31 AM

Switching to trolling to cover up an original terrible point rarely works.