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writes:I am a college-student. I've narrowly missed a frst class in my BA because of rigourous under-grading by a particular professor of mine. The professor in question is overly strict and perfectionist to the core, which is but natural in way, since he's sort of a genius in his field and is extremely noted in that area. HOWEVER, there's a BIG HOWEVER here-----he's a sort of person who likes...er...people sucking-up to him, or trying to impress him.While generally people who haven't managed to impress him in the way HE likes have landed VERY POOR GRADES,some others who suck up to him have got better, even though they were no better than the rest.And now that I'm in my Masters Programme at the same University, I hear that he'll be teaching us again...and I know that this time I HAVE TO DO something to prevent my previous debacle. And this is precisely what worries me. I find it detrimental for my self-esteem to "suck-up"", I haven't ever, yet I know that I'm NOWHERE near being the kind of genius that HE expects, to get graded generously by him. I want to impress him, get to know him and spend time with him,but WITHOUT directly sucking-up. Is that possible? Please help.
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reader, Anonymous 123  +, writes (28 July 2011):
 I find it a little hard to understand that apparently such a genius can be this shallow. I would imagine a respectable genius of a professor to be above this pettiness of having people to "impress" him.
You say to want to get to know him and spend time with him, why would you even want to do any of that??!! He is your professor, attend his classes, get your doubts clarified in class, and your association with him should end right there. There is no guarantee that even if you do suck up to him, he's going to grade you well. The only way to get that is to study hard. If you still feel you have been graded unfairly, get a re-check done and if its actually as bad as you say and most of the students are suffering because of this difficult Professor, then complain to the authorities.
Sucking up to him or trying to get you to like him just to get better grades is really sad actually. If you do manege to get good grades because of all this, those grades will never reflect your academic credibility.
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