My experience at Edinburgh U was more or less identical, right down to...
>Dominic: It would help to know where this was (at least what part of the
country, urban,
>suburban, rural) and what the demographics were, as best you can tell. Did
the more active
>students in any way differ in background, age, ethnicity, from their more
passive classmates?
>Mark
>occasionally one of them would turn in an absolutely
>first-rate essay (some people prefer to sit quietly, listen and
>think...)
>
>Dominic
...the one who evidently thought her colleagues didn't deserve to share her
insights.
As far as noticeable differences are concerned, the ones who'd taken a gap
year tended to be more articulate -- these were first-year, first-semester
students.
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