Being in college you should have some access to nice lab units (but don't count on it as an undergraduate). In my "theoretical" EE program (UPenn BSEE'81), we had a year worth of labs that involved (indeed, were centered around) using an oscilliscope. So we learned basic functions on one type of scope - expecting to use enough varieties to learn which obscure bells and whistles you prefer "for ever" is not realistic IMHO. Those were the the "sweep generator to xxxpass filter to scope" sorts of things - there were also logic classes w labs (assemble chips into bigger things) and integrated electronic classes w labs (mostly analyze chips at the transistor level, "but hey, we just got some microprocessor evaluation boards - let's do something with them) that did not involve the use of a scope (I suppose they COULD have, but not by default.) Now, there were plenty of other scopes around, and someone with the motivation and time could learn a lot more. But probably NOT as part of the curriculum. BillW