<p>@lauradiv27 Ahhh! Good luck. 
I was a notorious College Confidential browser last year. In a weird way, it helps. But it also makes you crazy.</p>
<p>Anyway, I love my professors. In lectures, it can be hard to get to know them one-on-one, but all of them always welcome students to stop by during office hours. I really like that. They genuinely want to talk to you and like getting to know their students. Your studio class (Frame & Sequence or Sound Image) only has 12 students, so your professor gets to know you and your work very well in that class. I actually haven’t heard of any bad film professors, now that I think about it. Everyone has preferences, of course, and if you really care about your professors (like me) then you’ll check ratemyprofessors.com before creating your schedule. But they’re all very knowledgeable in their own ways and all very nice and caring, from what I can tell from my first semester.</p>
<p>Like I said, my studio class is 12 people. That’s my smallest class. My Writing the Essay is about 15 people. I have two huge lectures with half the film freshman class (about 125 people?), then a recitation for one of my lecture classes with about… 30-40? That covers the film classes. Gen eds vary. My gen ed lecture has 150ish people. My recitation for my gen ed has 25ish.</p>
<p>I don’t really wish there was anything I had known or done before coming to NYU. The purpose of coming here is to learn everything, which I like. However, definitely try to be outgoing and be open to meeting people. There are lots of awesome minds here to collaborate with, and I feel like I was a little slow to adjusting to that idea at the beginning of the semester. But don’t try to cram in knowledge of cameras and editing and whatnot before you come. They don’t jump right into difficult stuff, so don’t worry. I hardly had any editing experience before this semester.</p>
<p>Language of Film (part of the freshman Visual semester) is dedicated to film history and watching a classic film every week. So don’t worry about that! I took a film class in high school, so I already knew some film history. It wouldn’t hurt to watch films before coming to school, just to be well-versed. But I didn’t watch many classic films before coming, so don’t worry. Like I keep saying, you’re coming to learn! What’s great, though, is that my professors will constantly reference films and I’ll just add them to my movies list. I have a whole great list of films to tackle during winter break! :)</p>