Life in an Israeli University

• Your average classroom will contain 25% knowledgable, active participants, 65% stenographers, and 10% who don't show up.
• The most common questions in the classroom are: "Could you repeat that again?" and "What will/Will this be on the test?
• Everything - from grades to attendance requirements - is open to negotiation.
• Things you will never hear a student say in an Israeli University: "What? Only English and Hebrew? I want Latin, Ancient Greek, and Russian!", "Sir, I think the grade you gave me was too high", "Only 25 pages? That's only enough for my introduction!"
• Skills acquired in an Israeli classroom: knitting kippas, staring in space, and handwritten stenography.
• Tests are better than papers when you have to write papers. Papers are better than tests when you have to take tests.
• "Liberal Arts" does not exist here. Consequently, many university graduates are educated ignoramuses.
• Don't bother sucking up to the teacher - tests are graded blind.