This speaks to a greater problem in the way we treat university in the US. It's not supposed to be a place where you're trained to do a job, it's supposed to be

This speaks to a greater problem in the way we treat university in the US. It's not supposed to be a place where you're trained to do a job, it's supposed to be a community where you are exposed to new ideas, so you can become a more well-rounded individual. But then university is so expensive, and you need it to get a halfway decent job these days. So now you're paying tons of money for a class you didn't want to take in the first place, and you come in with a chip on your shoulder already. And then these classes typically have a very high workload, with extremely strict grading requirements (ESPECIALLY mathematics), and they end up becoming sort of a filter, which does a disservice to the students and to the instructors.