[Gdeaver]

At some time in college there is a change from learning the basic tools to solve problems to actually solving real world problems. Not all colleges address this well but colleges that do usually have a couple killer courses where they make this transition and they hit it hard. For me it was a computer science course on simulations programming. This course used all the tools that we had studied - calculus, probability, statistics, programming, sciences, and even geography, and applied them to setting up computer models to simulate real world systems. There where 15 students in the class 9 passed, 6 failed and that was a good class. I suffered that semester, spent all my time on that class, lost the girl friend and my part time job, felt isolated and frustrated all the time but I passed and would not want to change the experience. If your college has a good curriculum they'll have courses like that. You'll be a better person for surviving it.