Game Engines

Hay guyz

I'm a third year cs student wanting to start my own (small) 3d game project. The trouble is I can't pick out what engine to choose. I skipped out on my graphics paper so I don't know much about 3d mathematics. I know how to program in C, JAVA, perl, python and (sigh) ActionScript. Don't know much about C++ but have written a few classes in it.

What 3D engine do you recommend?

I have tried some one the clunker ones, such as ORGE and Irrlicht(sp). I managed to write my own program in C that makes basic polygons, but looking at the math required to make it into a 3d model just confused me.

tl;tr

>>1
You may want to start off with something easier in the language you are most comfortable with, like Python with its graphics library.  Make a really simple game to get a feel for what game engines require, then move on to more complex stuff in C++.