Enormous university class sizes leave students feeling like numbers

By Ameya Charnalia. Ask students at top universities in Canada what their average class sizes are; their answers could surprise you.
As an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, I took an introductory economics class with hundreds of students in an auditorium directly above a subway station. The rumble from the trains passing every few minutes made it nearly impossible to hear the professor from the back half of the auditorium. More...