Elise
some in smaller classrooms
Advisors very inadequate
Dustin
In general, professors only know your name if you want them to. Some classes require a lot of work and the porffessors get to know you because you just have to interact with them a lot but if you don;t make the effort they usually won't/can't.
My favorite class was "Introduction to Black Studies" with David Brunsma.
Stephanie
Some of my professors know my name. I don't blame them if they can't remember though because I take a lot of large lecture classes. My favorite class curently is Monogastric Production; it's varied but not so much that the material is hard to follow. Sophmore Seminar is my least favorite; writing intensive - enough said. Students in my major study together quizzing each other mostly. My major is animal Science which is a wonderful and very challenging major, however CAFNR is not very LGBTQ friendly. I do not spend time with my professors outside of class. I feel that some of my humanities courses are not always applicable to my career after this. My major in general is an excellent stepping stone to the college of veterinary medicine.
Cody
Some of my professors remember me. And yes they knew my name only because I often sat in the front row during class and emailed them incessantly with questions.
Fav class: Classical Mythology with Barnes. Total blow-off. Handsome devil of a teacher who actually had a sense of humor. He made the class memorable.
Least Fav: Geology 1400 with some brooding professor. I'm sure he hated all of us. I don't like geology which is probably why I didn't do well or like it.
How often do students study: You have slackers and you have over-achievers. I was in between. There is no limit to the ways of how college kids will spend their time.
Competitive students: No. 1 J-School in the world, hello!? I'm sure the other programs also have competitive students.
Most Unique class: I wasn't there long enough to take more classes. Mine were all gen-eds.
Major/Dept: see above. It was the best attribute of my college experience at Mizzou.
Spend time with professors still: Yes, one. I was her work-study student and she has been published in Vogue, had a column in the NY Times, she's written books... I just spoke with her today. A great mentor for a plebeian writer such as myself.
Academic Requirements: very sufficient to pretty challenging. It's not like its painfully difficult but there's not such thing as a free lunch, either.
geared toward getting a job after graduation: Yes, I'm sure hiring statistics of Mizzou grads is your favor if you want a career in X. You will learn along the way too.
Erin
If you're looking for a competitive major, you should look at Journalism. The requirements to get into the school are a 3.0 GPA, but if you don't have a 3.3 and a great transcript, you might as well not apply. A lot of journalism majors drop out after the first couple classes, the weed-out classes. I've been quite tempted myself, just because the first four classes you HAVE to take (usually one a semester over four semesters, three semesters for those looking for a challenge) have very little to do with what you'll do in the j-school. Especially for those not going into broadcast or news writing, the first four classes and even a few once you're in the j-school have nothing to do with you're intended major. I'm a magazine design student, and there's nothing I've done or learned in my four semesters dealing with the area.
I have a friend who is majoring in Peace Studies and Strategic Communications Journalism with a minor in International Relations. I work in the district where my boss graduated from Mizzou with an interdisciplinary major focusing in French, Psychology and English. It's entirely possible to major in pretty much anything. I've taken classes like "Contemporary Moral Issues," "Political Parties and Election Campaigns" and "American Visual Culture." I have a friend who is taken a class on Judaism and African American Folklore. I had another friend who took a sex-ed class and a pulp fiction class.
Mizzou really wants students to have a well-rounded education outside of his or her major. You have to take an American Government class, a general math class, a general English composition class, and a capstone class. Sometimes this is a little frustrating; I've had to take classes that were very difficult and not interesting. Economics, biology lab and lecture, nutrition, survey of American lit., etc. But I've also taken some really interesting classes, and after I take those boring ones, I can move up into more in-depth classes.