I've had courses that have challenged me to study because either the topic was difficult or the professor was a researching mathematician who rambled in lecture

I've had courses that have challenged me to study because either the topic was difficult or the professor was a researching mathematician who rambled in lecture. However this article made me notice of a trend of having less free time: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/04/what_happened_to_studying/?page=full http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/04/... Personally, the culture outside of the classroom was that you had to be involved in many different things: work, clubs, career building, etc. Like studying itself would not make you a successful person. Is this forcing professors to make me study less? Am I gaining less knowledge because of it? I wish I knew, but I'm too busy studying to know ;) EDIT: Well to be honest, too busy surfing the internet instead of studying. Yes it's an addiction and an uphill battle to fight it, but it beats being addicted to WOW like my previous roommate. At least I have a small insight into the thinking of entrepreneur-ing hackers.