This comic is brilliant! I ended up being a programmer but I graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree. What's interesting is that I generally don't rec

This comic is brilliant! I ended up being a programmer but I graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree. What's interesting is that I generally don't recall fundamental physics or applied coursed having this attitude, i.e. nobody expects students to understand theories without proper context set up. Physics is generally taught from experiments. I believe math is mostly guilty here :-) For some reason most of school math is taught as a bunch of soulless abstract sybmol manipulation. No proofs, no reasoning, pure memory-based excersises. Then you come to a university and they just go on. Proofs-proofs-proofs, but with the same mechanical approach. No motivation, no context, just endless calculus variation. Yes, this really showed how much information I can put into my memory. But I only started to get math many years and books later.