<p>Wong, if your intellectual curiosity is motivating you, go find research opportunities and use them to the fullest. Coursework is meant to teach a specific set of knowledge, especially within engineering (I don’t know whether you are engineering or premed), not to make you go further and beyond and explore the subject by yourself. You will find this to be the same everywhere, even at MIT/Harvard/etc. There are plenty of people at other schools who have the same mindset as the people you see here. If you are interested in learning about the subject and satiating your curiosity then pursue an MS/PhD.</p>