> I don’t think it ever struck any of us that if we failed to study for an exam that it was anyone’s fault but our own. This is interesting to me. If you’re no

> I don’t think it ever struck any of us that if we failed to study for an exam that it was anyone’s fault but our own. This is interesting to me. If you’re noting working through problems how do you get the feedback to even know if you really understand the material? Generally assigned homework was nice because a professor will know the key ideas and can efficiently assign work covering those parts. Right now I’m self studying real analysis and I wish I had someone to pick problems for me because otherwise I’m just trying to do them all to ensure that if I don’t know something critical it will come out when I can solve some particular problem. On the other side of the same coin. How does a teacher know if their teaching is effective without frequency feedback until he form of students grades? I feel like waiting several weeks to determine if you need to change course is doing a great disservice to the students.