Accounting Frustrations

My Financial Accounting class is frustrating me like crazy.  I'm sure there's good reason to why accounting is the way it is, but to me..seperating all the different accounts and having debits here and credits there and tracking all the finances with a seperate account for every little thing is just completely inefficient and a waste of time.  Seems like all the reduncancy built into making accounting error-proof actually increases the chances of errors.  The whole debit/credit deal really seems redundant.  I know it helps verify the balance of the accounts, but I can think of much simpler ways to verify that accounts are balanced.  I guess at this point, I just hpoe I can understand the jist of it, and get out of the class alive.