Why won't professors respond to my e-mails?

motherbear332
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:07:00 +0000

OP, you seem to be taking this very personally. Don’t. If you later find yourself in a class taught by one of the profs who didn’t respond to your emails, don’t worry about this being an awkward situation–they won’t even remember that you ever contacted them.

Instead of looking for someone to hand you a research project, any research project, explore your field by taking classes until you find one that you really love and do exceptionally well in and go talk to that prof with some of your own ideas.

You’ve gotten many excellent replies on this thread. I’m also a prof and starbright and spdf in particular are spot on.