Within the past two weeks, the University of Ghana campus in Legon has been bustling with stressed students. The late night hours on campus are not spent visiting nearby neighbours or the campus hangouts, but stuck in your room or a library fighting with math formulas or southern Africa's city capitals.
As an exchange student, I'm challenged less with the fact that I'm only on a pass or fail basis, yet it's extremely easy to compare the hair-pulling time of year here in Ghana to the same stressful time in the United States.
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