Key Points
I'm a college student at a university in Scotland who's studying abroad in California right now..
In the UK, textbooks are free, and we're allowed to use laptops in the classroom...
In the states, I finish all my papers in half the time, as I don't need to read hundreds of pages I barely understand.. While British professors require you to apply academic sources to prove your arguments, American professors encourage more creative thinking and allow analysis not supported by references...
Fortunately, it turns out my professors in the US aren't half as harsh while grading papers as mine were back home...
At my Scottish university, almost all the resources I needed were available online, so we accessed them on our laptops in class...
