It's been a long time

I've been swamped with grad school this semester. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of work that teachers expect from their students all in the name of learning. Why do we turn something so fun into so much drudgery?

And why, oh why, do teachers assign an entire book when the assignment deals with the last three pages? The whole time I'm reading I keep asking myself if I missed something somewhere, if I got the assignment wrong... and no, it's the last three pages. Bah Humbug!