I don't have a problem with high standards. I love an academic challenge I too have found that professors whose classes are known to be 'bad' often are just harder than some others. The thing is - I have already gotten a doctor here fired for not practicing to the standards that I expected. I am on a short fuse with my biology professor whose class is a whole other story of frustration. I have applied to transfer - I don't intend on staying here for the rest of my undergraduate studies. I realize that the problem is that if you want to attend a school where you can participate in research, the flip side is that the professors are there for research as well, and therefore may not care so much about teaching. Which kind of blows my mind.