An American Moment

Everyone traveling, living, working, or studying in France has had a moment at which he threw up his hands and said "America is so much more efficient! This is driving me crazy!" Eventually you get used to it and kind of like the attitude. But then you receive things like this from your professors, which I'm putting here, directly, in French, so you can check the dates and know I'm not making this up:

"Bonjour, il nous faut rendre les notes avant le 4 sept., donc il faut rendre vos travaux avant le 20 mai, afin que nous ayons le temps de les corriger, de faire une double lecture, d'harmoniser la notation!"

- Hello, we have to turn in grades before September 4th, therefore you much turn in your papers before May 20th so we have the time to correct them, reread them, and harmonize the notes (between the two professors).

Yeah, my professors need two and a half months to read fifteen 8-page papers.