Hats off to you!
Well, it wasn’t really a straightforward comparison. My course was lectures and problem sets, while his had laboratory work as well. At the time, Dad was working full time at a cannery to help support his mother and brother while he went through pre-med in three years. He and a classmate got permission to use the lab over a weekend, and they ran the semester’s worth of experiments in 48 hours.
I never had to do anything like that, and doubt I could have. He was a remarkable man.