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[quote=Anonymous]I went to UNC-Chapel Hill and it depends on the major, and also classes get much smaller as you progress. Intro classes are ginormous and anonymous.

I can speak to three majors: anthropology, psychology and biology. All followed this trajectory:

First two years,  I took a handful of huge classes with excellent  and brilliant professors, seminars with TAs that are soso and usually have a slightly different focus.

Then the last two years, I took a larger handful of smaller, higher level classes with professors who I got to know well, who I saw socially later on.

Anth classes got smaller soon, bio classes stayed kind of large, psych classes somewhere in the middle. The professors I got to now the best were my Anthropology professors.

My boyfriend was a drama major and knew everyone --- fellow classmates, all the professors -- extremely well.

You do need to advocate for yourself, find your own path, etc, at such a large school. People can get lost. But there were definitely tons of intellectuals there who knew their professors very well. The professors at big research universities are also AWESOME because they arent just teaching, they are actively engaged in creating new research and are full of that kind of energy.

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