I would get out of the "trench" and look at the bigger picture. When we're in school, it's about getting good grades and pleasing professors, etc. But we get out of school and no one hiring us really cares about our grades and only places I don't want to work anyway, care about what school I went to even! Do a 3-5 year plan and realize that this semester is only a small part where you want to be in five years. If you picture yourself in another country, the skills you pick up now fall into place for helping you get a good enough job there; you work on getting experience using what they are teaching now so you have the appropriate background in five years. The boring stuff just becomes a tool in your toolbox.

Sure hammers are boring but you're not just making hammers, you're making screw drivers, chisels, wrenches, etc. and when you have to build that ark in the future, you'll be glad the professor talked on and on about what kind of wood was best to make hammer handles out of and made you experiment by making multiple boring hammers :-) By the way, pouring the metal for all those hammer heads, and finally getting the right texture/strength, something that didn't shatter? You know enough about metal working now to try making a sword. Nothing fancy, but it "works". Then you can go back and run that obnoxious professor through with it