All of my professors know my name.
favorite class- vector calc, and multivariable calc, the main reason for this is because of the professor, otto bretcher. he is the best math teacher i have ever had. office hours are always a good time with him, and when you put in the effort to see him and understand the material, he puts the effort back in to making sure you get it. i also like math, i know im a nerd. there are a lot of professors like otto though. they are all open to seeing you in office hours, and you always get the most out of classes you put a lot into so thats one of the really great things about the professors here.
least favorite class- research methods and statistics- a requirement as a psych major. why should i have to memorize all these things when i will never do them by hand in real life, and i will always have something to reference. not to mention lecturing about anova tables is an incredible boring thing to sit through for an hour and fifteen minutes.
students study a lot. there is a big range (from never to all the time) but for the most part students fill the libraries on sunday afternoons to get stuff done for the upcoming week, but come friday and saturday, its break time and there will be very few kids hanging around the lib.
class participation is common in conversation based classes, not so much in lectures, but kids always ask questions. there have been some great discusions in some of my spanish, psych, and english courses and its really fun to leave a class feeling you have adequately discussed an issue. also colby brings in a lot of cool lecturers so sometimes those are fun to go to.
there are definately the intellectual conversations outside of class... you can only talk about yourself and the weekend so much. a lot of times my friends and i will bring up cool things we were talking about in class, for example the other day in my cognitive psych class we were asked to write scripts and schemas for a typical blind date, road trip, and the perfect wedding proposal, and the responses that we talked about in class were so interesting that i was really excited to share what we had done in class with my friends.
unique class-drugs, brain, and behavior- it was a psych class and it was soo cool to see how drugs actally affected you pysically which caused the side-effects that are visible in behavior and actions. it was a great class.
the academic requirements make me take courses i otherwise wouldnt have thought to take, which is nice because you are exposed to lots of different areas of academics and that is kind of the point of a liberal arts education.