For the Fall of 1996, I was given the assignment of teaching the required introductory EE course for other engineering majors. Usually, visiting faculty were relegated to this unseemly task, but we were shorthanded so some of us on the tenure track would have to pay our dues. My fellow faculty warned me to expect terrible student evaluations, since most of the students were only taking the course because it was required, and really didn’t want to be there. It seemed pretty grim.