The college experience being taught by the Google

HTML, PHP, slides, web design. This is all I have done since the semester has started back up. I understand getting a degree in CIS isn't supposed to be all fun and games, but it seems like the first 2 weeks has been nothing but work work work, and no end in sight. I enjoy learning new things that I may someday pursue a career in (I doubt it) but with lectures lasting an hour long with no actual hands on time until class is about to end seems a little absurd. Now when I am at home doing work and I am stuck I either email my professor and sometimes get a reply or consult the Google as my one professor likes to call it. Sadly, this is the truth. Professors stand up there and talk and then turn you loose. With little time left in labs, the professor finds himself/herself running around trying to get to everyone, which usual is a complete failure. I have respect for my professors, but don't they see what they are doing is completely backwards or broken? I would think more hands on time students would benefit the greatest from what they are being taught. I do also understand the professor would be stopping a lot more because you are going to have that one student who just doesn't get it, but please professors, everything you are rambling on about will have left my ears and flown out the window before you can finish your sentence. 

What does one do when the moment comes and I cannot remember what the professor has said? Like everyone else in this world. Consult a search engine. I learned more this week off of my questions to a forum or a similar question asked by someone else who also hasn't retained anything they heard, because they need to have the hands on experience to grasp the full concept of what is going to happen if they link the .php page to their .html page with bad if statements. 

The forums that the Google kicks back to you are probably being answered by the professors themselves. Don't doubt it for a second.

Thanks for stopping by
Luke