Bullshit. This is a class in a top university with a fairly well ranked CS department. If he needed help he could have hired a tutor or went to see the prof or TA during office hours. No one is under obligation to seek him out and give him special attention - all that does is waste time on people with no initiative to understand the material, and degrade the quality of the class for everyone else. If he can't cut it he needs to change majors or switch universities.

I graduated from a top ranked CS program and the work was brutal, but that how I learned and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

This doesn't have anything to do with getting broadband access. If the electrical company (assuming you have electricity) can find you to hook you up, why wouldn't the broadband company be able to do the same?

My "address" translated to English is "100 meters north and 50 meters west of Bar Renur" or I could use any other variation that allows people to find me based on landmarks they are likely to know: "400 meters north and 50 meters west of the town center." And yes I have broadband.

The information for Costa Rica is pretty far off base as well.

Coke: $1.10 (not 66 cents)
Beer: $1.50 (not 34 cents)
Cell Phone: $200-$600 (not $79)
Shoes: $4 flip flops to $175+ for brand names (not $9.50)

And I live in a rural non-tourist area. Prices will often be double in a tourist beach town or in and around San Jose.

Also anyone taking an upper management position at $2,000 / month is getting screwed. I've had programmers asking for anywhere between $3,000 to $5,000 / month.