My experiences as a math major at a prominent university were even worse. In upper-level courses, professors would work through one problem on the board for the

My experiences as a math major at a prominent university were even worse. In upper-level courses, professors would work through one problem on the board for the entire class. Turns out, they'd do it wrong about half the time. The next class (usually a few days later), they'd spend 30 seconds saying how they made a mistake here or there. So your entire instruction set was incorrect, solidified in memory for days at best, then we're supposed to divine which part you did incorrectly in 30 seconds! And then many of the professors had what was, at best, a tenuous grasp of the English language - which matters a lot when teaching complex subjects in English to students. And we were supposed to learn in these classes? Jeez it was awful. And these are the people at the top of their field, paid to do research? Engineering classes were hit or miss - some were great, taught core concepts really well. Others turned into awful mathematical formula applications / regurgitation with extremely dubious accuracy. Needless to say I don't have a great respect for math as an academic discipline, despite really liking math.