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Students study a lot. GW is underratedly very hard! Gelman library is always packed! If GW has your major you will love the classes!

ACADEMICS HERE SUCK! This is such an overrated school. People are impressed by the name, but many just confuse it with Georgetown. The honors program can barely retain 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of its returning students as it is requires 8 credits of horrible classes every semester (more than your major) and rarely do the credits even count for anything as all the departments hate the honors program (not to mention each other). Computer Science here is taught by mathematicians until the upper levels; essentially, you're on your own until your Junior Year. If you come in with no experience, you're screwed. The only good class I took here was Electronic and Computer Music, but good luck finding any other unique, non-traditional classes that infuse the sciences and humanities here. If you want to work fo the government, come here. If not, stay away.

-Do professors know my name: No, not in lectures, sometimes in recitations -Favorite class: language in culture and society -Study: studious -Students in professional schools such as international affairs, business, and engineering tend to have a more real world education experience than liberal arts, where its just learning for its own sake.

Yes many of my professors do know my name. My favorite class was Econ 011 with the great Anthony Yezer (most don't like him). The intellectual community is not very strong outside of class though I do live in Thurston which gives me slanted view. Yet politics is often a topic of conversation. The academic requirements are quite lax and the education is geared towards practicality which is a relief in my opinion.

Classes are what you make of them. Most students are active outside of class iwth internships and jobs that classes become a chore in the way of gaining real world experience. In some instances a professor or class will provide the incredibly unique ability to learn first and apply second. Meaning you can really take what you learned in an 8am class and put it into action by your afternoon internship. The fact that most professors are doubling between teaching and working helps reinforce this. I would like to sleep through most classes - particularly the ones i have no interest in yet outdated General Course Requirements make me take - except the high tuition really guilts me into going. Think about this: Despite studying politics in Washington DC, I have to take 3 science labs - usually taking up more time of my week than things I'd rather be doing. A real disappointment.

-yes, most of my professors know my name. -favorite class: sociocultural anthropology (miller/BABS). Least fav: UW20 -study: definitely a lot during midterms/finals time. somewhat inbetween. -participation: definitely there -conversations: abosultely! i have had some incredibly interesting conversations, and then i have talked to certain sorority girls and wondered how the hell they actually got into the school? and then i remember how every building in GW is named after someone, and i remember. -competitive: there is always some competition between students. -unique class: ANTH 002 (miller) hands down. -major: im in the business school and there is a stupid FYDP business class that does not do what its meant to do. -professors: I do go to certain professors office hours. -GW (at least the business school) is 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} geared towards getting a job. That's it, which isn't exactly a positive thing all of the time.

Most of my professors know my name. The lecture classes with 200 students are obviously harder to communicated with the professor in. My least favorite class is is a lecture class taught by a very boring, pretentious man who has seriously made me reconsider my future in International Affairs. I think that the requirements within my school are acceptable, though I feel that the engineers are asked too much of.

Academics are pretty good here while the classes are fairly large i still feel as if i am learning a lot and getting a good education

Many of my professors know me by name, almost all of them actually, even in a lecture of 40, or 50 students. Professors are always available to meet outside of class. I think that the school is competitive especially because the students make it that way. I dont like some of the required courses because I feel that they dont apply to what I want to do.

Professors do not know my name. Students are always found studying even on a friday or saturday night. Participation is extremely common in class and GW students hold extremely intellectual conversations outside the classrooms. Students can be somewhat competitive in their internships and extra cirriculars. I feel that the academic requirements are very lenient in the school of international affairs.