So, I am sure that some of you reading my blog are interested in what the academic life is like at LSE and perhaps in the UK in general. So far, I would say that the material here seems a little more challenging than what I had back home, and the style of teaching is definitely different. I have put in more time outside of class to stay on top of the material (more time in the library than I did previously). I have had to hand in homework assignments fairly frequently for a couple of my classes (econometrics and real analysis) but in my other classes (accounting, monetary economics), I did not have to turn in the assignments. Here, the marks on the assignments don’t count toward the grade for LSE students (although it can in some cases count towards your class grade for General Course) so many students do not take the assignments seriously and fall behind. So, having the assignments count toward your grade is actually good in a couple of ways – you will probably be more on top of your work than a lot of your peers!
