One thing about most? university education, is that the good places have you doing. Homework is more than just busywork. It's to get you actively working in the

One thing about most? university education, is that the good places have you doing. Homework is more than just busywork. It's to get you actively working in the system you're learning. Same with labs and projects. Some of the troubles with applying some things (like calculus or physics) is that to apply them in a meaningful way, you need a whole other course's worth of background. So you do little things like calculate how many calories a person burns/hr, or what the unit normal acceleration is.