Remember the days of elementary schools when teachers would let you make something and you could take it home to show off, to store, and to treasure for life?  As I go through my studies in EE, I have longed for something like that, even if it costs me a nominal fee for supplies and stuff.  In lab, I do not want to be merely chugging numbers like I am now in EE 411 (Circuit Theory) — I want an opportunity to apply those concepts by building something, (maybe) letting it blow up in my face when I did something wrong (that’s why we invented the circuit breaker, gain 1 buffer, and fuses), and if possible, take it home with those calculations to remind myself of what all those lectures add up to.