What do you think French students find the most astonishing when arriving at the University? The beauty of the campus? The kindness and efficiency of the staff? The amazing opportunity to pick any courses they want? Considering the '70s style of most of our concrete universities, the mess and the grumpiness of French academic bureaucracy, without even talking about the inflexibility of our educational system, we definitely should! However, there are much more important things on a French student's mind.
I knew even before arriving in the United States that everything
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