I can agree with this on so many levels. As a student in a somewhat challenged branch of it, I often feel like me and my fellow students are "wasting" time on merely explaining theories, when in reality, a lot of us are very eager to get our hands dirty with something real.

Universities have a limited amount of ressources which means that you're pretty much left alone to figure your entire study-plan out to yourself, including picking partners and/or cases for examns. While this is not at all impossible, I know for a fact that a lot of students around me are eager to participate in something that weighs a little heavier than their own interest in social media or gaming.