STUDY abroad?

I just gotta say: SCHOOL IS RUINING MY STUDY ABROAD experience.

When people talk about studying abroad, they focus too much on the ABROAD part and not enough on the STUDY part. I'm just as busy as I am back in Philly and doing the same stuff back in Philly. It is ridiculous.

I'm always told by previous students "Oh it's easy. Such a joke." Whatever. It's a joke when you take Intro-to-this, Intro-to-that, and Japanese Elements I because you're an ignorant Gaijin who thought it'd be cool to come into another country to party without learning the language or any of the local culture.

That being said, it feels that some of the courses are designed as weed-out courses. International trade? 40 student class... ordering 20 books. Great. Study guide and none of the answers for the difficult questions on the answer key. Even better.
I have 3 classes, one of which is 1 credit, which are easy. But this International trade is HARD and my Japanese class is a close second.

Why my Japanese class is the earliest Japanese class? I don't know. They should make all the Elements I and II kids take 9 AM classes. But nooo, they get to enjoy later classes.

Coming to school at 8:45, staying till 4:15, and possibly sitting in the computer lab/library to study/write papers really leaves me little time to enjoy Tokyo.

WTF IS THIS?