While doing my homework (and watching college football) I came to understand why college really is a step above high school. It's taken me 4 years, but I finally realized the meaning of college. High school teaches you to regurgitate facts (date, names, places, etc.) while college teaches you to regurgitate processes (partial fraction expansion, Routh-Hurtwitz stability tests, ladder networks, etc.). It's all so clear to me now...