If I may be so bold as to impart some of my knowledge upon you...
This last year I found a frustration with this university. A frustration I first believed to be local and confined to those professors I was learning under but then discovered was more widespread. It is the apparent lack of communication. If I had a question or concern I would email my professor, yet no response ever, ever came through. In my time here I have had 15 professors and only one has ever emailed me back. I found this an excusable course of action for those professors teaching courses with over 75 students, that's perfectly understandable. But for the professor teaching our seven-student course? Really? This troubled me all of last year.
So, it is with great pride, and a little shame for only now taking advantage of this, that I give you, prospective BYU student, this advice: office hours. Every professor has something called office hours. He/she will say "my office hours are held from 2-3 every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday," and you will furiously scribble that down some place you won't forget it. Then, when you have a question, drop by their office. Yes, emailing is way easier, and sometimes moving from that comfy seat in the JSB all the way to the Talmage is just too hard. But, it will be worth it. Not only do you get your question answered immediately since you've cornered them like a cat and mouse, but you get some valuable face time - a precious commodity in your larger classes where the professor is not aware of your existence in the slightest. Your professors actually do want to talk to you {why they can't do that through email I have no idea} and their office hours are precisely for that! So, dear incoming freshman, prospective transfer students, and all others curious about the workings of BYU, take advantage of your office hours.


For those of you scoffing at me for never having gone to a professors office hours before.... shut up. I'm an introvert and almost hyperventilated going to see my religion professor today.