<p>That can depend on who you talk to. There are of course students here who are more interested in the social scene than anything else. But I get the general sense students are really interested in academics as well.</p>
<p>As an example,when I went to my final anthropology class this semester, the lecture hall had over ~450 people in it (there were only 355 seats, and 355 kids in the class). Dozens of kids came because the teacher, Prof Smith, has this great reputation for giving a great last lecture. They didn’t come because they had to, they just wanted to hear his lecture. At the end he got this 30 second standing ovation (which apparently he gets every year) …And yes, people discuss that course and others all the time…whether its in study groups, or in the dorms. Especially organic chemistry/gen chem =) Those are classes that for better or worse everyone obsesses over.</p>
<p>-VAZ</p>