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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the college professor PP who said go to office hours. Let me clarify: build a relationship with your professor that is not based on complaining or demanding. Go early in the term for guidance and to continue learning outside the classroom. If you have a serious concern about how your work was graded, you can also approach them about that, but don't be that a*hole whom the professor only hears from in angry consumer mode. It's not a good look.

If you make time to have some one-on-one chats with professors in your first-year courses, you will end up having more advocates who can advise you on your major and study abroad and grad school and the like, and ultimately write you good references. You don't need to go constantly or and you don't need to brownnose. Think about scheduling a visit after your first paper comes back, or when you're first planning your term paper, or at any point where you feel like the material is getting ahead of you.

PS: I am/was a shy person and definitely hid behind pillars, back in the day. But I also went to a tiny college where my profs knew me really well anyway. And the expectations have changed.[/quote]

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