I usually just fast read/glance through such things so that I get the big picture. If the details ever become useful I then know where to find them.
This is was pretty much me for my lab course last semester! God the lab manual was so boring, dull, and annoying. The reports were tedious and absolutely stupid. I hated reading it, I hated doing the work...i hated everything about it. Especially the experiments. I guess the only motivation I had was err, if I didn't pass I'd fail my major? lolI honestly wish undergraduate schools had the option for majors in theoretical physics, not physics in general. Physics experiments so faaar are soooooooooooo boring, and I still have like 4 more required lab courses to do. KILL ME.I should have gone for mathematics. No labs. No experiments. Just...math.
I can relate to this. When I went back to school for a math degree, I took Physics 1 for Physics majors just for fun so I thought (it was not required). I did great on the first test but I withdrew from the course shortly after the test because I did not like doing labs. I know a few people and also heard of some well-known mathematicians that went into math because they did not like doing labs. Every subject will have some aspects that are boring though. My guess is labs become a lot more interesting in the later lab courses.
Yeah but it's all worth going through though. The co-requisite courses were electrostatics and a bit of electromagnetism, and another lecture course in intro to thermodynamics and special relativity (i have no idea why they bloody merged these two topics together...budget cuts perhaps). So many of the topics covered in these two classes gave me multiple orgasms throughout the semester. I guess they make up for the crappy a$$ lab course!So I guess for Bob this might be a good reason to power through boring cr@p, the more advanced and interesting topics make it all worth it imo. Similar to piano playing lol
I'm thinking it can be useful to tolerate more. I just haven't run into it for a long time. I do remember it from the past though. Part it might be not being in control. Most things I do now have a purpose. No purpose, no action. Add something that doesn't quite have a purpose or doesn't match the priority of other things and it's a little annoying too. Add in knowing some of it is just training material author's idea of what they think they're supposed to create.... I could tell some of it was not put together by someone with any teaching background. Horrible, irrelvent pre and post test garbage. But there are other materials I can use.