At last! Classes started here on Monday, October 9, and I now feel as though I have some higher purpose in life than simply strolling around Paris gawking at all the sites. Seriously, though, I've had five weeks to settle into my new home and I feel like I'm ready to tackle some academic subjects. Sometimes the brain gets greedy for hardcore, fact-based knowledge...which will come in droves now, I'm sure. The French Higher Education System...and where I Fit In To preface this blog, I will explain that Sciences Po is the common name for the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) and that I attend the Paris campus of the IEP. There is a hierarchical AND a regional distribution. Some of the other campuses are in Strasbourg, Lyon, Bordeaux, Poitiers. The IEP is an 'grand établissement', NOT
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