texts are assigned. Your materials, lab experiments, and resources all come from prepared lists from which you can’t deviate. There is only one answer. Most of the time, there is only one method as well. You’re told to approach problems and questions in certain, specific, and fixed manners. Even if you can better understand a concept through creative thinking and self-driven investigations, you’re expected to conform. The compounding frustration, as it turns out, either turns you off the subject or doesn’t teach you anything at all, usually both.
