European Prestige

I am now well into my Michaelmas Term lectures at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge is the most prestigious university in Europe. This made me feel both honored and intimidated as I walked into the Divinity Faculty building for my first lecture.
I have the privilege of attending three lectures a week at the university. On Tuesdays I have Christianity in Late Antiquity. This is basically Early Church History from Constantine to Augustine taught by Dr. Thomas Graumann. After this lecture on Tuesdays I have Reform & Renewal taught by Dr. Richard Rex. This is a Continental Reformation class, which goes well with my third lecture. On Thursdays, I attend Christianity & the Transformation of Culture with the same lecturer, which is about the English Reformation (Henry VIII through Elizabeth I).
I enjoy all three classes and so far I'm getting a great deal out of all of them; but out of the two lecturers, I enjoy listening to Dr. Rex the most. He has a sharp wit about him and his class periods fly by. He is one of the leading experts in Reformation history, particularly the English Reformation. I'm truly honored to be a pupil under such extraordinary minds.
Above is a picture I took on my way to class on Thursday. The lecture building is a 20-25 minute walk from Westfield House, which I make there and back a couple times a week. One perk is getting to pass King's College Chapel (pictured above) on my way there and the University Library (pictured below) on my way back to Westfield House.
I now have a library card at the University Library that I get to keep when I go back to the States. This is one of five "exhaustive" libraries in the United Kingdom. This means it is supposed to have at least one copy of every book published in the English language... ever. So if Westfield House's library doesn't have a book I need and I can't find it at the Divinity Faculty library either, I get to scour through millions of books to find it in this packed skyscraper.
Yes, it's certainly a fun and beneficial experience to attend lectures at the finest university in Europe; but honestly, my lectures so far have resembled my classes at Concordia much more than I thought they would. The teachers use simple PowerPoint presentations just like my professors at CUNE do, with pictures pulled from Google images and everything. Students dress down to go to class (a great breach from the Chariots of Fire days), and Richard Rex even adds a little class participation to spice things up like Concordia professors do. I think all too often, we imagine the great universities of the world (MIT, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, etc.) to be leagues above us in everything they do. But in reality, they're a lot more similar to us than we think. We're all just trying to get the best education we can, whether it's at Holmes Community College or the highly-esteemed University of Cambridge.