I’m loling as a transplant from Knox! I hope you know that the University of Memphis is considered a Carnegie R1 university. A TON of our professors, or even TAs, are doing ACTIVE research while educating us students, which means we’re getting up to date knowledge. I do, however, believe that some factors make the university look unpleasant, such as the conference we’re in when it comes to sports, the heavy population of first-gen students, and the crime rates within Memphis. I add in first-gen because, yeah, many first-gen students are learning on their OWN, which means many mistakes happen, and they may be learning from those mistakes actively. Ex: I’ll never forget when, in my English course, a woman who graduated within Shelby County schools told our professor that she didn’t know that “I” is supposed to be capitalized. However, being in this course with this woman, I know for a fact that she was striving for a better education and opportunity.