<p>I am interested in getting to know and work with my professors in college. Will UChicago, being so large and having a lot of Graduate influence, allow me to closely connect with most / many of my professors, and even permit the possibility of working with them (research, internship, etc.)?</p>
<p>My D used O week to interview labs. She started her fall term first year. eventually she even received a small stipend for her work. That was a few years back (she graduated in 08) but I doubt much has changed. </p>
<p>Contact with profs is up to you. Some will be receptive, some won’t, but it helps if you do very well in their course.</p>
<p>Interestingly, undergrads, especially in their last two years, can easily take grad courses and sometimes even seminars. And many grad students fear being outshined by the undergrads in seminars! It’s all up to you.</p>
<p>It’s not that big a community, and there aren’t that many graduate students. You DO have to take the trouble to reach out, make contact, ask for opportunities and pursue them (although if you do very, very well in someone’s course, he or she may come looking for you). But if you do that, you can pretty much have as much involvement as you want. </p>
<p>Not necessarily with “most” of your professors – close involvement takes work and time on your part, and most of the time you are going to be content with having the relationship limited to the classroom (or, really, in some classes, having no more relationship than you might with the star of a play you were watching from the audience). But you can certainly get close to two, three, four, five faculty who particularly inspire you. And that’s as much as anyone needs or wants. (Some people don’t want that at all.)</p>