tips with professors(与教授相处的建议).docxVIP

Your GPA, while important, is not your biggest selling point in the professional world. That shiny new degree won’t mean much unless you know how to communicate well with your colleagues and superiors. That’s why it’s important to think of college as your training ground for the real world—a place where you can hone your soft skills so you can successfully navigate the workforce. Your professors, for all intents and purposes, represent your future managers, so it’s important to know how to interact with them in order to maintain a good working relationship. And if you want to get on your professor’s good side, there are a few things you should never say to them… “Did I/Will I miss anything important?” I once told a professor that I would be missing her class next week due to a prior engagement. Rather than simply asking what materials I should read, I asked, “Will I be missing anything important?” Big mistake. “Every class is important,” she shot back. Needless to say, I never asked her (or any other professor) that question again. While my 19-year-old brain thought my question seemed innocent enough, it suddenly dawned on me how disrespectful it really was. Imagine pouring hours of your time and ideas into a lesson only to have a student question its value. Sure, not every lesson is going to give you an “a-ha” moment, but you should at least appreciate the effort that goes into them. “Can you tell me what we did in class?” Again, put yourself in the professor’s shoes. You spend an hour (or more) giving a lecture, engaging the class, and answering questions. Then an absent student emails you or pops in to ask for a summary of the highlights right there on the spot. Not cool.? If you miss a class, do your due diligence before bugging the professor. Contact another student in the class; ask them about any assigned reading and if you could (pretty please) borrow?their notes. Or, visit? HYPERLINK /home/ Course Hero?to access classmates’ notes from the day you missed. Af