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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who uses professors for course selection advice?  Isn’t that what advisors and fellow students and course requirements are for?[/quote]

Prof here. Professional advising staff can help you figure out what you need to do to graduate. If your school assigns faculty to advise all students, as smaller schools tend to do, they will do their best to read the requirements and provide guidance, but they will be overstressed at advising time, under-trained on the requirements (I speak as someone who was often tossed head-first into this role), and they only know of your interests what they can gather in a 10-15 minute meeting. The faculty who already know you from a class and have a sense of your strengths and interests and needs are an invaluable source of additional help deciding what to take. [/quote]

I wish I knew who all of these struggling students were who need professors to hold their hands.  I didn’t, my spouse didn’t, my friends didn’t, my siblings didn’t, and my kids didn’t.   [/quote]

THey are not struggling, they are networking.

You really must have had a different undergrad experiences than most of the more impressive people I know. [/quote]

Yea, I’m pretty sure only one of us won a Fulbright.  [/quote]

DP: Ugh.  I won a Fulbright (it's not THAT impressive, it's not like Rhodes or anything) and I'm finding you insufferable.  [/quote]

[b]Sure you did[/b].  [/quote]

Yes I did. One of those post-bac ones for research.  And was a finalist for the Watson fellowship.  But you don't have to believe me (and I don't consider it the highpoint of my c.v.).[/quote]

Only a finalist?  Too bad.  DD was a winner.  Chip off the old block I guess. [/quote]

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