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Professors here are great. They all know our names and they are easily accessible via email, phone, or just showing up in their office. My favorite class(es) are my honors classes. They are small discussion based courses that really get deep into the material. Least favorite would have to be geology. Rocks for jocks. It was the most boring thing ive ever sat through. Well....I have a bit of a swayed view of studying on campus. The people I associate with actually do study a pretty good bit, but over all...especially in the freshman dorms, I would have to say studying is pretty infrequent. Class participation is common....mostly because nearly all professors have attendance policies and participation grades these days. I have intellectual conversations outside of class. And I have noticed on more than one occasion some randoms having an intellectual discussion in the union or the grove. It really is a cultural campus. It's great. It depends on who you ask if they will say students are competitive. There is a very intellectual sphere in the honors college in which students are uber competitive. However, many of the business majors ect arent so competitive because they all have daddy's job lined up after college. My most unique class was the american legislative process: political science 367. We did a mock legislature for the last half of the term and it was cool. The political science department is great. It's a fairly large major but the staff if so personal and knows each student by name. I do spend lots of time with professors outside of class. My italian teacher lives down the road from me and whenever im feeling nostalgic about europe i'll just head over there and get her to cook me a pizza. Ole Miss' academic requirements are fairly lenient. However most greek organizations and other honorary organizations require more stringent standards for its members. And it depends on which major you are in as to what its geared to. Business majors are basically just there for getting a job. But if youre in a liberal arts field all the professors are very intellectual and knowledgeable in their subject area and basically just care about you becoming more informed.