<p>My own experiences with professors has been consistently excellent-- though I’m sure there are more than a few duds here, I came from a stellar high school with stellar teachers and was told-- many times over-- that I would never have that same experience again.</p>
<p>Boy, were they wrong.</p>
<p>I’ve found my profs inspiring, open, and dedicated. Not only do they hold office hours, but they’re open to chatting with students at any one of many coffee shops here, and they’re also really excellent about e-mail communication. My humanities professor this quarter asked us to e-mail her any additional questions we had about Kant; my social sciences professor was going to be out of town the weekend before a paper was due and gave us his cell phone number; my history professor e-mails us responses to our required journal entries.</p>
<p>I also find it really cool that of the 10 profs elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, I’ve been to lectures/taken classes with two of them:</p>
<p><a href=“http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070510/academy.shtml[/url]”>http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070510/academy.shtml</a></p>