What a difference

a professor can make. Where I used to despise physics class for wasting my time and money, I now enjoy it and learn in it. I am actually motivated to work at it. And all because of the professor. He doesn’t understand the technology any better than the other ones I've had, but he does understand questions. He knows what we are asking and he finds a creative real-world example or some other way of helping us figure it out, instead of going of on some tangent about the inverse derivative of theta squared divided by the cotangent of omega pi.
So I was wrong. The physics department can do something right!