I was a history major so suspect I don't find history boring I engage whatever the material is, if I find it boring I ask it why :-) and start looking online about that particular statement or paragraph and find something more interesting to me about it, find out why I find it boring :-) But paying attention to how I feel about the material and figuring out why I feel "that" way, that helps me learn it or something relating to it that's better/good enough so I can distract the professor with a good statement they weren't expecting.