quick question re: patho

I'm in an online FNP program. Even the local brick-and-mortar school has most of their didactic courses online. Anyway, the advanced patho course is not impossible, but it is a VERY VERY VERY large amount of information to "learn" in one semester. I was talking to another FNP student at another program. He felt the same way I do - we don't feel like we are learning anything. We feel that yes, we have done ok academically this semester but we don't feel that we can accurately look at a condition and diagnose it. The sheer volume of information has been totally overwhelming. We feel that we might as well not even have taken the course (if that were an option). I don't feel any smarter patho-wise now than I did before. If we had longer to take the course, perhaps we could have managed to retain a thing or two. So my question is this: have any of you gone through the same thing? I surely can't be the only one.

Thanks.

HBGWAN