My university english was class was more about writing an essay on what the different colors in the Great Gatsby meant. Evidently this was true across many colleges since it was trivially easy to go on sparknotes, get the answer to that exact prompt, and get an easy A.
My university computer science classes included professors who thought that "vim was what the kids used now" and that the best way to teach operating systems was to give a lecture on how compiler authors break your code with optimizations. Maybe this is an indictment of their teaching and not the entire field?
