I'm a Math/CS major and I can relate completely to this. In my upper level math courses, we're given about 4 hard problems every week to struggle through togeth

I'm a Math/CS major and I can relate completely to this. In my upper level math courses, we're given about 4 hard problems every week to struggle through together. The problems always use the theorems from class in new and interesting ways - you have to really get the theorems to do the homework. Exams are almost always take-home proofs. It makes us feel like we're really doing math! In my CS classes, I too often feel like I'm just memorizing things to fill in the blanks and gaining a breadth of vocabulary that I can google if I ever REALLY need. I think this may be partly because people who become CS professors are not the people who love to make and deploy software.