January 13, 2006
In Germany, Parents' Weekend Is a Novelty
Many particulars distinguish German university students from their American counterparts. In a country notorious for career students, who begin higher education later than in other Western nations and take an average of six years to complete their first degrees, universities here are filled with much older students than in the United States. Germany's legal drinking age is 16, so, although downing some beers with friends is as much a staple of university night life in Berlin as it is in
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