I have a year to go for my course, which is Audio and Video technologies, but I have 5 exams to give till January to be able to go to that last third year. IT SUCKS, this is something that requires a lot of practical work, I worked in a studio as an apprentice for 3 months, I learned more in 3 days than in 2 years of uni. They liked me so much I got the keys and was about to start receiving money but I had to quit in order to finish shitty uni.
Dude I don't know about your case, but I don't think studying audio through PowerPoint is very interesting, waaay too much theory, fuck that, I want to go into the studio and work my ass off, man I loved working in the studio so much I slept there like 5 times.
Now I'm gonna go downstairs and study so I can just get it over with and do what I love, which is to actually WORK.
The problem of your interface is (imo) that you aren't able to send every input to every output and vice versa. RME are on the top of their league, only thing sucky about the Fireface is that the mic preamps SUCK, but if you are going to work seriously you will always buy a 1000 dolla mic preamp or a Mixing table.
Miao miao miao.