<p>I’ve never felt, as you put it, “lost in a crowd”. Part of that does have to do with the size to student ratio - it’s very manageable and I never feel overwhelmed by the number of people, with perhaps the exception of a very large class. These seem quite rare, as when I told people my Russian Lit class had over 500 people they were usually surprised. Even so, the professor was happy to have you come up to the stage and talk to him directly, and the TAs were very helpful, stemming the feeling of being in such a large class.</p>
<p>But, as a whole, the student body works together very well, and I’ve never felt surrounded by strangers even when I am. Plus, get involved in even just a few things and you are bound to run across people you know on the way to class almost every day. It makes the number of people seem not that big of a deal, without being suffocatingly small.</p>