Somewhere around the corner is that better classroom: a place where students are motivated to learn our material and we, the instructors, gain satisfaction from helping them master it. Efforts to turn that corner are nowhere more difficult than in the larger classroom. How can we motivate individual students when there are so many of them that it is hard to remember their faces let alone their names? How can we evaluate each student's work when there are other courses to teach, research to do, committees to serve on, and families to cherish? This essay describes my attempt to deal with this all too common situation by merging a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) strategy with the use of microcomputers.