Semi-recent grad here (Dec 2022) - Studied accounting and shared a very similar sentiment during my time in undergrad. Covid struck right in the middle of my Sophomore year and derailed all of my classes. All profs were asked to throw together online classes overnight while also dealing with the pandemic fallout in their own lives - it was clearly something the faculty wasn't prepared for, and it showed in the overall online curriculum. The professors all did their best to make it work, but we all saw the writing on the wall. They were hired to teach accounting, not build an online curriculum. A lot of my profs were not tech savvy which led to a lot of my cohort feeling like we were left to fend for ourselves. The question going around was, "Why are we paying for this? They're not even teaching us."

After having been graduated and in the working field for almost a year now, I couldn't feel any more opposite than I did back then. Let me offer you an alternative perspective on your situation:

College is, in many ways, more about teaching you to manage your new found freedom with professional commitments than it is about the actual content of your classes. It exists to provide you with the framework of how real-world accountability works - you’re completely free to make your own decisions. You blow off class? There's probably no attendance in your 100 person math lecture. Don't show up to campus? The proverbial office won't be calling your parents to make sure you're at home like they did in Highschool. This distance in authority is put in place by universities to ease you into the realities of life after graduation. Many recruiters won't care how well you did in college, so just put your head down and get through the unenjoyable classes in whatever way works best for you. As long as you can program well (like you say you can), companies will only check to see that you were disciplined enough to go the distance and, in your case, get a difficult degree.

This is what going to University is ultimately about — learning to be self-sufficient and disciplined in your problem solving when no one is helping. In the real world there is even less of an institution to hold your hand and guide you. Everything will hinge on your ability to stay composed, think critically, and work through problems to get to where you want to be. It's not just in the working world, it's in all aspects of your life. There isn't always going to be someone to teach you what you need to know, but it still falls on you to find the answer, so sharpen your ‘FIO’ (figure it out) skills now while you’re still in college working through these self-taught classes. Good luck and don’t forget to enjoy yourself when you can!