<p>The way the original question was written, I assume the person intends to apply to graduate school and needs a letter of recommendation. I totally agree with those above who say the original list sounds more like sucking up. I don’t think it expected or even appropriate to give gifts to your professors. Inventing reasons to ask for their help outside of class where the sole purpose is to ‘look good’ probably has backfired rather than helped most students. Profs are wise to that type of behavior and can see through those who sole purpose is to suck up and somehow think the prof will think more highly of them. Be yourself, do well in class and then those other things will be a result of how well you have performed, not how well you think you will have fooled someone into thinking better of you.</p>