Yea, especially in the South the big state schools are better than the others. I think you made the right choice there. What you should do is talk to lots of people early on about the best professors and classes, and don't always listen to their advice, but take it into consideration. With going to a big school, the important thing is to realize nobody is going to save you, or notice you, without you speaking up first. This, in my experience, with be difficult for an INTP, we like to go our own way, and don't really talk or express ourself to others, or ask for help. But at a state school like that, if you don't engage the professors directly and right away, you're a nobody to them.
Math is pretty awesome. Do you like more the applied (stats, informatics, calc when applied to systems or physics), or the theoretical high level proofs mathematics)?
