I could have dropped and taken a different class, but I lost my patience. I rationalized it as an experiment to see the intellectual value of the class I was t

I could have dropped and taken a different class, but I lost my patience. I rationalized it as an experiment to see the intellectual value of the class I was taking. I feel like I learned a valuable lesson, but not in history. Sure, there's supposed to be push back on any claim. But it's very much lighter if the professor/TA believes it to be true already. I am not claiming I am an amazing historian who is right and the professor is wrong. But I expect my ideas to be evaluated on the merits: how well I defend the idea given my level of study.