Comment by noisy_boy

> In a European public university ~10 years ago, I did a class in discrete mathematics in my first year as a student and it was hard. The professor was going fast, not following any book or notes but writing everything on the blackboard. During that hour I needed to pay constant attention to the lesson, take notes, going home to find explanations in books or online about what I didn't understand.

This has always been my pet peeve. My classes were mostly like this. I like to think and dig into topics and instead of doing that, there was regurgitation without any pause. Whoever could write fast and have breathing space to think won. I wish they had given out the notes upfront, use a portion of the class to go through the overall thing and then use the rest for getting into the tougher parts/Q&A.