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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously. When I was studying abroad in Germany from an elite liberal arts college, the German professors thought our group was basically high school students and the kid from the University of Vermont who was along with our group was some kind of advanced academic.[/quote] I was attending an elite liberal arts college in the US and had a German visiting professor for Econ 101 who told us that if we were university students he would use calculus to teach us the supply/demand curve but since we were just college students he would graph it as a straight line. Took me a long time to figure out what he meant, eventually I realized he thought we were kind of dumb. Sorry, didn't just think it--told us to our faces. [/quote] Sorry, should have added, this is hilarious about the UVM kid. I mean, its fine, but....[/quote]
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