Guide to Developing Good Relationships with Professors for Recomendation Letters

[Andale]

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@starbright

I don’t want my students swinging by and making small talk, wasting my time, faking their attentions, and giving me gifts with some master plan to garner some kind of letter from me later. Same sort of students that come to negotiate grades and/or brown nose. Go away! News flash: we know this student and there are a few every year. You don’t want to hear what we say about you OP. These students think they are oh so savvy because most professors are pretty polite and don’t point out what is obvious tot hem (but just because professors play along doesn’t mean they don’t see right through you as a suck up and share info with their colleagues about you-- info that isn’t good).

Let’s hope that there aren’t many faculty with as jaded an outlook as this.</p>

<p>Starbright, the OP’s post was largely focused on substantive elements of developing a good relationship with profs. But you chose to skip down to an afterthought portion of his post where he mentioned that he had given gifts to a couple of profs with whom he had especially good relationships and to whom he was especially grateful.</p>

<p>Perhaps you are in the wrong field?</p>