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Tagged with professorship undergraduate
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How to deal with students wanting the answer versus working through the process
I am currently teaching an undergraduate forensic photography course, but I'm having a difficult time this semester. Many of my students seem disengaged, and they expect me to simply give them the ...
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How should I talk to professor if I have been absent from project for weeks due to mental health issues?
I am an undergraduate student. Four weeks earlier my professor asked me to work with him on a literature survey project. He asked me to update him every week about the status of the project. The ...
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Do LOR writers need to be someone who's taught you a class?
Background: (Undergrad applying For PhD in the US)
I need to submit 3 LOR's. I have one in mind from my personal university and 2 from other universities (with whom I have done extensive research with)...
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How should I request a professor to restrict communication to email?
My instructor for an undergraduate math course (a professor) has been interacting with me over WhatsApp lately, and I feel that that is very unprofessional (and uncomfortable), since I (and everyone) ...
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How can I deal with a professor who refuses to communicate?
Required information: Germany, maths, and undergraduate
Situation: In order to finish my undergraduate degree, I have to do one final oral exam with two professors (A & B). However, A and B refuse ...
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Course requiring students to use Examity
I am an undergrad student and one of my professors is saying that we will be using Examity for the final exam.
I am concerned with downloading this software on my computer for various reasons, ...
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What is the proper response when a professor teaches a side topic related to the course but the information is wrong?
I've been a software developer for about 10 years or so and am familiar with various security related concepts (SQL injection, server-client validations, man-in-the-middle attacks, etc.)
I'm ...
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All of the offered sections of a course I have to take next semester were full by the time I registered? [closed]
I absolutely have to take General Chemistry next semester for my major, as it's a prerequisite for nearly all of the other classes. However, all the sections are full. Only two of the sections would ...
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I hate taking lectures, can I still survive in academia?
I'm 3rd Physics & Mathematics student and I almost hate both taking and attending lectures; it is not because of the content, but rather the way how it is done; I don't like sitting in ...
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How to deal with bad department chair?
As students we have the right to choose our semester subjects (for the new semester beginning in 2019)
So we went send an email to the department chair indicating what subject we would like to take. ...
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Is it a good idea to have really busy advisor? [closed]
I would like to have one of my department professors as an advisor mainly because he is an expert on the field that I am interested in and I'd like to work in.
The problem is that he is a really ...
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How to request a professor to let you into their class [closed]
For various valid reasons, I was not able to sign up for a certain math course that I need. The professor is amazing, and I really hope to get into her class. I went to her class every day for a week, ...
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Sending a thank you e-mail to a professor as an external intern
I'm new to Stack Exchange and I apologize if my etiquette on posting a question on this platform is "wrong".
So I took a course last year with a professor who was exceptional on her subject that gave ...
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My professor presented a problem that I solved. He says I can send it to a conference. What is the etiquette in cases like this?
But I don't understand if it is ethical because he was the one who identified the problem. I wouldn't have thought of the answer if he hadn't asked the question. I am an undergraduate and this is my ...
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Is it rude to send my professor a link with teaching advice?
I know the title sounds terrible, but it's not as bad as it sounds so please hear me out.
I am an undergraduate and have set up an independent study for this fall about topic X. The professor doesn't ...
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