Are you on a first-name basis with any of your professors?

Verbatim · January 28, 2015, 07:08:01 AM

Or teachers, if you're in lolhighschool?

I am.

Elegiac · January 28, 2015, 07:09:06 AM

That's almost obnoxious. But whatever, I'm not really judging.

Yu · January 28, 2015, 07:10:28 AM

It always feels weird calling professors or teachers by their first name after using their last name for so long. Even after getting to know them well.

Verbatim · January 28, 2015, 07:11:19 AM

Quote from: Elegiac on January 28, 2015, 07:09:06 AM

That's almost obnoxious. But whatever, I'm not really judging.

It would only be obnoxious if I called a ph.D "Bobby" instead of Doctor Robert Smith or whatever the fuck. But if they're chill with it, and you've known them for years, then what's the issue?

Mr. Psychologist · January 28, 2015, 07:11:43 AM

There were a few that I could have been, as in they said it was fine to but I insisted on Mr X Ms Y and the like.

Now with my professors it's the same thing, they are very laid back about it and are happy for people to speak to them on a first name basis but it doesn't feel right not to address a Doctor as Doctor or Professor as Professor.

Elegiac · January 28, 2015, 07:13:36 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on January 28, 2015, 07:11:19 AM

Quote from: Elegiac on January 28, 2015, 07:09:06 AM
That's almost obnoxious. But whatever, I'm not really judging.
It would only be obnoxious if I called a ph.D "Bobby" instead of Doctor Robert Smith or whatever the fuck. But if they're chill with it, and you've known them for years, then what's the issue?

What do you call Bobby then?

Verbatim · January 28, 2015, 07:15:27 AM

Quote from: Elegiac on January 28, 2015, 07:13:36 AM

What do you call Bobby then?

Dr. Smith, unless he's okay with Professor Smith.

The question I was really asking was if you had a good relationship with your instructors. My dad, for example, still hangs out with one of his college professors. He drinks with him, for fuck's sake. I was just wondering if anyone had similar relationships here, because I think it's kinda sweet.

Elegiac · January 28, 2015, 07:17:48 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on January 28, 2015, 07:15:27 AM

Quote from: Elegiac on January 28, 2015, 07:13:36 AM
What do you call Bobby then?
Dr. Smith, unless he's okay with Professor Smith.

Tell me about the first-name basis situation then.

Korra · January 28, 2015, 07:23:43 AM

Not really, I feel like I've been indoctrinated to never call my teachers/professors with their title and last name even if I know them well.

Flee · January 28, 2015, 07:23:50 AM

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Verbatim · January 28, 2015, 07:25:05 AM

Quote from: Elegiac on January 28, 2015, 07:17:48 AM

Tell me about the first-name basis situation then.

There's just this one professor who my dad has been friends with for years--he'd get invited over to watch football games and drink beer and shoot the shit--and now he teaches me in one of his courses. For someone who's been teaching for as long as he has, he's still quite young, which might explain the laid-back-ness of it, and he's just known me for the longest time.

Verbatim · January 28, 2015, 07:25:33 AM

Quote from: Flee on January 28, 2015, 07:23:50 AM

Of course not, virtually no one is for any major class.

what the hell is a "major class"

Elegiac · January 28, 2015, 07:30:42 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on January 28, 2015, 07:25:05 AM

Quote from: Elegiac on January 28, 2015, 07:17:48 AM
Tell me about the first-name basis situation then.
There's just this one professor who my dad has been friends with for years--he'd get invited over to watch football games and drink beer and shoot the shit--and now he teaches me in one of his courses. For someone who's been teaching for as long as he has, he's still quite young, which might explain the laid-back-ness of it, and he's just known me for the longest time.

It makes more sense to me now.

Flee · January 28, 2015, 07:33:20 AM

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Verbatim · January 28, 2015, 07:39:42 AM

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Any class that isn't a practicum of some sorts. Major classes are those where you just in auditorium with dozens or hundreds of other people just listening to the professor's lecture. You don't interact with him or her, so no one gets on a first name basis.

Right, I see. That's sort of cheating, but I know what you mean. Obviously, that's less of a, "No, I'm not" and more of a "I don't have the opportunity."

gats · January 28, 2015, 07:44:13 AM

They encourage us to speak to them on a first name basis but I prefer to refer to them as professor

Flee · January 28, 2015, 07:47:00 AM

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velox · January 28, 2015, 08:09:48 AM

In "Gymnasiet" (age 16 to 18) I called basically all my teachers by name. There isn't really much of a tradition to call teachers by their last name in Sweden, at least not before College/University, which I cannot report of by first hand experience, since I haven't taken that level of education yet.

ಠ_ಠ · January 28, 2015, 08:12:06 AM

Only for two professors, but that's because I'm more on a friend level with them. I've never actually been in their classes, they just hang around the same center that I do.

g💚jira · January 28, 2015, 08:35:14 AM

Almost all of the comp sci department because of extracurriculars and robotics and such. I'm trying to make friends with the Math department but they're always so busy.

Not even going to try for any humanities course. It literally takes 30 minutes of waiting just to get an opportunity to ask the prof a question.

Tyger · January 28, 2015, 08:54:37 AM

I only call them professor even if they insist on being called something else in order to dehumanize them

Tyger · January 28, 2015, 08:58:16 AM

Quote from: Flee on January 28, 2015, 07:47:00 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on January 28, 2015, 07:39:42 AM
Quote from: Flee on January 28, 2015, 07:33:20 AM
Any class that isn't a practicum of some sorts. Major classes are those where you just in auditorium with dozens or hundreds of other people just listening to the professor's lecture. You don't interact with him or her, so no one gets on a first name basis.
Right, I see. That's sort of cheating, but I know what you mean. Obviously, that's less of a, "No, I'm not" and more of a "I don't have the opportunity."
Yeah, it's the second. Not sure if my university is very different to your college in that aspect, but the only time we're in these smaller groups is when it's for a practicum, seminar or something similar. There's around 150 people doing what I'm doing now, so there isn't much room for up close and personal contact with the professor. You can go ask questions all you want, of course, but unless he ends up being your promotor for a thesis or phd, you're not going to get any sort of relationship with him or her.

I'm in the same boat, I have 300 people in my intermediate chem lecture. We break down into smaller groups for discussions and seminars but those are led by grad students or student volunteers

Mat Cauthon · January 28, 2015, 09:04:19 AM

Yeah, no reason not to be.