I kinda went in reverse, as a kid I was (still am) very nerdy. I had consumed a tonne of MIT opencourseware years before entering university but usually at a freshman / *01 level.
I wasn't challenged at all throughout my time, was extremely disappointed at the piss poor quality of eduction, and basically skipped class 2.5 years of a 3 year degree (still got the highest GPA somehow). (Btw, it sounds like I'm bragging about how smart I am but I was always always a middle/bottom of the road student, never the top but at least I never failed out and I enjoyed learning)
Maybe it was the "school" (not university it doesn't deserve that title) I went to that was weak, but I really expected more, at the very least to be challenged. Looking at my friend's course work from other universities it didn't seem much different except for the person doing nanobiology lol.
I think another factor it could be is the country I'm in (Denmark) has piss poor education throughout schooling (by the time they leave high school they can barely and I mean barely solve right angle triangle problems). I went through IB which is held to some modicum of a standard so that could also be what influenced this experience. Denmark for years has been reducing the challenge of its university level courses because students coming out of public education cannot keep up - nearly every year several professors from "the best" institutions complain about these students and have now started setting up extra courses to teach them the basics before they can actually go into the degree.
Also for those interested in learning more about how education takes place in Denmark you'll see a lot of crap about "the pedagogy of education" and a bunch of teachers espousing their personal philosophy of learning. Ignore them. Look at what the students actually do, look at what the parents complain about, and look at the passing grades (30% on a MC questionnaire).
From about age 11 they are introduced to GeoGebra, Maple, etc. and the remainder of their education focusses on translating problems from paper into the computer and hitting solve - the result is unsurprisingly a bunch of students who "are great at mathematics" but don't even understand what a %age is (I took to helping my uni classmates who were struggling and I blew a guys mind when I explained %ages are just fractions, take the number and divide it by 100).
I wasn't challenged at all throughout my time, was extremely disappointed at the piss poor quality of eduction, and basically skipped class 2.5 years of a 3 year degree (still got the highest GPA somehow). (Btw, it sounds like I'm bragging about how smart I am but I was always always a middle/bottom of the road student, never the top but at least I never failed out and I enjoyed learning)
Maybe it was the "school" (not university it doesn't deserve that title) I went to that was weak, but I really expected more, at the very least to be challenged. Looking at my friend's course work from other universities it didn't seem much different except for the person doing nanobiology lol.
I think another factor it could be is the country I'm in (Denmark) has piss poor education throughout schooling (by the time they leave high school they can barely and I mean barely solve right angle triangle problems). I went through IB which is held to some modicum of a standard so that could also be what influenced this experience. Denmark for years has been reducing the challenge of its university level courses because students coming out of public education cannot keep up - nearly every year several professors from "the best" institutions complain about these students and have now started setting up extra courses to teach them the basics before they can actually go into the degree.