I remember when the Nobel Prize used to mean something, when people won it many years after tremendous accomplishments. It was so exclusive that the best of the best never knew if they would ever receive it. Now it seems you get it for not being like the guy before you.

This is why I thought it was great when one of my profs actually put up a class wiki where we the students as well as the prof could engage in discussion about the problem sets. Everyone knows that you can only learn so much in lectures and part of your understanding comes when trying to complete the assignments. I guess he figured he might as well be influential at the later point as well.