Advice on getting to know your Professors

chocoman
Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:09:55 +0000

You can ask for a reccomendation right after you have them, you know. A lot of career services offices will have credentials files where they’ll keep your recs.

Here’s some tips, some I’ve never actually done, but I plan to do on my professors (I’m an IR major so this might reflect that). I would love to hear people’s other suggestions:


Take them in another class. Two semesters really builds a relationship.
Always try to build a good relationship when you’re in a seminar.
Go to their office hours. Ask them about their research, how they got into their field, etc. I’ve spent only 10 minutes talking about the material in the course, and 50 minutes talking about everything else.
This is the brownie points one. Read the NYTimes everyday (as an IR major it’s so useful for me) and give them an article relevant to the class. Or here’s the big one: read one of your professors research articles, if she has any, and come in to discuss it.