Your mileage may vary. You had a miserable experience. I did not. I'm not saying the courses that I took (or TAed) were all superb. It was a mixed bag. The

Your mileage may vary. You had a miserable experience. I did not. I'm not saying the courses that I took (or TAed) were all superb. It was a mixed bag. The prevailing philosophy was summed up by one of my profs in my 2nd semester. He said, "You're expected to aggressively eradicate any gaps in your knowledge by whatever means you feel are appropriate." Translation: You're going to have to teach yourself. But that doesn't mean teach yourself alone. If you have to corner me, or the teaching assistant, or your classmates, to understand the problem set, then do that. If you need to hunt down a book, then do that. The buck stops with you.