> There's just so much self-learning involved it can be quite hard to narrow down your questions to where it can be discussed in an hour. I had this problem wh

> There's just so much self-learning involved it can be quite hard to narrow down your questions to where it can be discussed in an hour. I had this problem while taking grad courses. I needed time to produce follow up questions and office hours are just a misfit especially when I know there are a bunch of people waiting in line for time. What we ended up with is a Piazza where TAs mostly do the ritual. In popular areas, I wonder why I am paying when its no better than an internet forum, probably worse. I feel learning experience is just poorly structured. Teachers get away from the feedback received by invalidating it instead of introspecting it. I can't imagine any other field where feedback is just thrown out no matter how noisy it is.