Great ideas are the sure road to academic failure. College is a battle. The professor has the grade, you've got to get is away from him, and this can be done only by little ideas, things which will appeal to his kind of mind. When you write a paper, you are really writing the paper which is already imprinted in the professor mind. If it is a near match, you get an A, and so forth.
College is a game which is played only by people who are still in the running .
Your work may be uninspired, it may have little meaning to you as a person. But if it keeps you in college, it's great, and after all that's what really matters. Many a brilliant mind is poking quarters into a pinball machine or playing pool late in the evening, while the pedestrian intellect is balancing his overflowing checkbooks at the very same moment. The choice is yours, by and large. Never be ashamed of being dumb, some of the dumbest people in the world are the most successful, as in politics, and the richest.