Physics rant

I don't like E&M. Not because it's become ridiculously hard, but because there's more of the same: problems with one right answer that you can only get with the correct series of approximations. And then when examples are given they don't explain *why* they approximate in this line and not that, or they happen to be lucky (well, already know how to do it) and choose the approach that happens to make everything happy without explaining why this is the right approach and how to find it for yourself.

It's somewhat like the mechanics class, but that was more clearly a case of bending your mind into the shape that would make the problems work out and then using your algebra skills to deal with the resulting mess.

In its favor, the E&M course seems to be more logically organized than the mechanics one.