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Universities score brownie points for results... paper. No-one seems to check on what their product's capabilities are afterwards.
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While it is a bit OT and won't help the OP fix his Hacker, this remark is very true. The situation I think deteriorated significantly with user pays education and the students becoming the paying customers that the University is then expected to qualify the majority of in return, thereby causing standards to slip.
Certainly the better electronic design & repair technicians I have met were always the ones who were interested in electronics themselves, with self directed learning and loved it. That is the real inspiration for success, in whatever field a person chooses.