This isn’t really the case for some college degrees. You cannot be successful in engineering e.g., specifically ME (in my case), through memorization alone. Fo

This isn’t really the case for some college degrees. You cannot be successful in engineering e.g., specifically ME (in my case), through memorization alone. For many degrees, you’re absolutely correct though. I remember being envious of such workloads in college simply because of the idea that time spent studying directly correlates to your grade. Engineering degrees, in general, simply show that you know how to learn. Memorization is helpful but alone is not enough to understand concepts and apply them. Memorizing formulas vs. being able to derive them is a good example here.