Higher Education in Tunisia: Slow Death Imagine yourself studying from Monday to Saturday with the average of 6 hours a day. Imagine having classes from 8:30 AM until 6:40 PM with only a half-hour as a lunch break. Imagine studying over ten subjects per semester where the professor himself still can't figure out what is the purpose of teaching it. Imagine that less that a tenth of the material isn't even close to the standards of the industry. Imagine working on school projects so the professor will have a 10-second look at it and grade it. Imagine having a partial working Internet in an Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology that only works in the library. Imagine having to auto-form yourself via MOOCs and books so your skill-set will match the present advancement in the world. Imagine having clubs that you must run and assure that everything is working smoothly, and that doesn't just happen. Imagine having a part-time job or freelance projects because you want to test your knowledge rather than looking for the money. Imagine being a professor who wants to teach, but he/she finds students goal a final grade. Imagine being a professor that works hard in a system that is so damaged. Imagine spending 5 years in school to figure out that 4 years were lost. Well, that is a daily struggle for some of us in engineering schools in Tunisia. If you happened to come to the school where I study, you would notice that some of us skipped meals, didn't sleep or forgot to wash their face. Some of us sleep in their jeans when they get home. Some of us end up skipping classes. Especially classes, I for myself has skipped countless times. I skipped so I can attend an online class, an event, a workshop or to sleep. I skip when there is nothing to add to the bookshelf's knowledge of my brain. The daily routine of an engineering student makes him/her a living zombie so one can assure having the skill-set after graduation, having good enough grades to proceed and good enough skills to work. Every student or professors that feels these emotions are working toward a change, but how much would it take to happen? Where can a student like me go in a system that appreciates grades, a real world that needs skills, and a body that looks for rest?