DS is about to head off to college, to a private university with opportunities for interaction with professors. I plan to advise him to make this a priority, but I am wondering how best to accomplish it. I'll tell him to take advantage of office hours to ask questions about material he doesn't understand or wants to know more about (after trying his best to learn it on his own, of course), but not to take too much of the professors' time. What is the best way to accomplish this in person?
If he gets the courses he wants, he will have three large intro courses taught by professors who are very popular, and who are considered extremely effective teachers. I imagine that for those courses, he will probably not interact directly with the professors, but with TAs? For one of the courses, the professor is his freshman advisor and that will be an exception. That professor has been exchanging emails with DS since shortly after his acceptance as a prospective major in that department. The fourth course will be a small freshman seminar.
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