College Know How - College
Teachers
Some College Know How –
Getting To Know Your Teachers
I hope to offer some
insight to an important question facing many
college students and more specifically UB
college students - “How do I make an impression
with my teachers?” Again, I won’t say that I am
any kind of expert or even someone who should be
giving out advice, but if your interested check
it out.
Going to a big school has
many advantages such as a large student body, a
wide range of majors and minors, very often a
sports team to cheer for (not so much in the
case of UB) and much more. However, with all of
these advantages comes a very significant
disadvantage.
A large student body
usually results in large class sizes. This can
mean a real loss of any significant connection
with your Professors, TAs, and even other
students. From my own experience, I know that a
bad or absent relationship with professors can
lead to missing out on a valuable opportunity.
What opportunity you may ask? Well to be honest,
the opportunity to get better grades.
Building relationships with
your teachers as well as your TAs is an
invaluable part of getting better grades. Have
you ever been late on a paper for a legitimate
reason and had your professor not care? Well
that may be attributed to the fact that you have
never set yourself apart from the other 100
students in your class or the other 300-400
students that may be in your professor’s other
classes.
Setting yourself apart can
be as simple as sending emails or contributing
in class. I have found that teachers are
more open to give you the benefit of the doubt
if they know who you are. Pretty simple and
straight forward if you think about it. However,
this little piece of “advice” helped me pass
quite a few classes.
If you start emailing your
teachers on a weekly basis about
anything, this will be a good place to start.
Email them about anything from something they
said in class or a question about the readings
that you are supposed to be doing or even
something happening in the news that you think
they would be interested in. Furthermore, try to
make sure that you make some kind of
contribution during every class. Again…
anything. It doesn’t matter. The whole plan is
to put a name to the face or a face to the name
or whatever.
Hopefully as a result of
building these relationships with your
professors, when you find yourself having to
hand in a paper or other assignment late, your
teacher will let it slide. Furthermore,
the ever important attendance factor becomes
less important because you have connected with
your teachers on some kind of a personal
level. Trust me, build these relationships and
you will find those Cs becoming Bs and getting
your teachers to give you those few extra
points to get that A wont be an issue.
If you have any questions
or comments, please feel free to post a
response. Thank you for your interest of UBE,
Inc. and UBEntertained.com and I hope you enjoy
the site.
Seth Meyerowitz
Founder & CEO
UBE, Inc. & UBEntertained.com
http://www.UBEntertained.com
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