You gave some great advice. Assignments might not always be geared towards something useful, but sometimes you can go above and beyond the requirements to make

You gave some great advice. Assignments might not always be geared towards something useful, but sometimes you can go above and beyond the requirements to make a boring assignment interesting. For example, I'm taking a class on web applications. One of the assignments was to establish a website that supports PHP and MySQL. For this assignment, all we really HAD to do was sign up for web hosting, although I had zero web experience, I thought it sounded kind of boring. Instead, I rented a VPS for the first time, registered a domain name, and taught myself how to install and configure a LAMP stack. I took an otherwise useless assignment, and turned it into something fun, interesting, and useful.